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Thread #43386   Message #3893443
Posted By: Joe Offer
11-Dec-17 - 09:19 PM
Thread Name: Baptist Sunday School words offensive?
Subject: RE: Baptist Sunday School words offensive?
All I found was an excerpt of May Irwin's "Bible Stories":
https://books.google.com/books?id=Qs0ZDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT102&lpg=PT102



Maybe that's the whole thing. Here's the song from page 8 of May Irwin's Home Cooking (1904)
LIVE HUMBLE

The world was made in six days;
Then they made the sky;
Then they hung it overhead,
And left it there to dry;
Then they made the stars
Out of nigger wenches' eyes,
Just to give a little light
When the moon she didn't rise.


That one makes me cringe. "Nigger wenches' eyes" is shockingly strong to me, reeking of both racism and violence.

-Joe-