Don I actually wrote as a sentence "to paraphrase because I cant be arsed -"
Perhaps I should have added - "..... digging out the orginal statement" - I was intending that the hyphen would indicate my leaving the rest of the sentence hanging - my apologies for the confusion.
"If people never sang another note of these songs....."
Nope, sorry Don, it appears equally as crass to me, whichever version - hence my Shakespeare analogy.
Jim Carroll