The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121919   Message #2669924
Posted By: Vic Smith
02-Jul-09 - 01:52 PM
Thread Name: Motley Morris banned !
Subject: RE: Motley Morris banned !
Dead Horse,
Thank you for your good wishes, given above, and may I in return wish nothing but the best for you and yours.

My daughter manages a refuge hostel for battered women and their children, conducts much outreach work in homes where physical and mental abuse takes place and makes many court appearances supporting her clients.
One of her main complaints is of abusers trying to make light of their actions, even to give their actions a humorous bent.

If you are happy with songs that have "jokes" like.....

My wife she is the devil
She's black as the coal



and

And if my wife would me despise,
How soon I'd give her two black eyes


....then you continue to sing them. All I'm saying is I don't find them funny and don't want to sing or listen to them.
My own experience after 44 years of marriage is to thank my lucky stars, how very fortunate I am. The best thing I ever did was to marry my wife.
Let me finish have a couple of lines from a song that I would approve of -

We loved each other dearly and disputes we seldom had,
As constant as a pendulum, our hearts were ever glad.