The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117165   Message #2521634
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
21-Dec-08 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: Curly headed piccaninny
Subject: RE: Curly headed piccaninny
Right there - the post got a bit jumbled there, and the pretty didn't belong in that first sentence.

There does seem to me to be a pretty clear implication in the song that a situation where a mother feels she has to give that kind of advice to her child is a wicked one that ought to be changed.