When I was little, my mum sang Ma Curly-Headed Baby to me. I always remembered the lullaby chorus part, but I was moved to look up the rest of the words when I became a grandad. The song was written by an Aussie over a century ago. The original words contained "nigger" and "coon." The former has typically been replaced by "darkie" and the latter, ridiculously, by "food." To me, it's a song of pleasant sentiment, sung by a plantation mother to her little child. I'm no singer on the whole, but were I to find meself singing it to a bunch of grown-ups I think I'd explain that the words are of their time, and while we wouldn't use those words these days, I'm keeping them in. To a six-month-old, maybe the same but without the wordy justifications. To a four-year-old, I think I'd reconsider, because an explanation would be called for yet difficult to give. The bottom line is whether the song has racist intent and whether it's capable of depraving and corrupting. Personally, I don't feel the need to be sheltered from dated lyrics.