I'm with Dewey on the question of promulgating offensive lyrics, but for a different reason. Too often we find that a gifted person has composed a good, creative tune (such as Old Joe Clark or Shady Grove) and then some unknown, mediocre person has slapped crude, no-talent lyrics onto the tune, ruining its beauty. It's ruined because it's so hard to get a rhyme out of your head once it enters.

(So often the lyrics belong to a class I call The Unfussy Lassy.)

We have the right to control what's in our lives and what we promulgate. We also ought to respect and protect the efforts of others (such as beautiful tunes).

I say, let such verses die a well-deserved death.