The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140761   Message #4106504
Posted By: cnd
18-May-21 - 10:12 AM
Thread Name: Are racist, but traditional, songs OK?
Subject: RE: Are racist, but traditional, songs OK?
While Kingdom Coming/Year of Jubilo are pretty clearly racist, I think the lyrics at the time were well-intentioned despite their racist characterization of African Americans and its stereotypes.

As long as you don't sing the lyrics in an offensive fashion and modernize some of the lyrics, it should be fine.

If you have the space, it couldn't hurt to do another slightly more obscure song Work wrote entitled "Babylon is Fallen"