The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140761   Message #4057010
Posted By: GUEST,Rigby
03-Jun-20 - 04:13 PM
Thread Name: Are racist, but traditional, songs OK?
Subject: RE: Are racist, but traditional, songs OK?
To BlackAcornUK and others who advocate censoring the lyrics to folk songs: presumably you also feel that Sharp and Baring-Gould acted entirely correctly when they bowdlerised the songs they collected in order to make them acceptable to contemporary mores?

If not, what's the difference?