Lighter, you make many good points which, no surprise I agree.

Noreen,

"Les- and would you re-write all the great classics so that they had happy endings?"

No.

I am trying to explor a larger point through this song. I guess the larger point is - how does the story content of a song affect whether we choose to sing it.

I will make this point again - most of us wouldn't sing songs with the N word in. To those who say songs should be changed I would simply say that's what people have been doing for hundreds of years. That is why their are so many versions of Geordie and loads of other songs.

It is difficult to make subtle points on here when we can't see each other and people like me are semi-literate (!). I just feel uncomfortable singing some verses of 'Peggy' and wondered if others felt the same same.

Cheers

L in C#