Joybell, I'm not old enough to have become sick of the song 50 years ago.
:-)

Re: attention being given to the black orgins of the song: I don't care one way or another whether I may be related to those who originated the song (or at least related by my mother's skin colour). I still avoid the song like the plague. Maybe that makes me a musical-interest snob? A cultural heretic? BTW my mother didn't like it at all, either. I like what I like, not what was written by people who are a certain colour.