"PLEASE DON'T TRY!!! "
Why not?
Lily of Laguna is a British coon song, a love song that originally included a racist and stereotyped image of black people. It was written in 1898 by English composer Leslie Stuart.
Not a folk song, however popular it was.
Reg's comments were on taste, nnot on definition - à chacun son goût ( "to each his own taste").
Jim Carroll