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Thread #7383   Message #44551
Posted By: Chet W.
06-Nov-98 - 10:03 PM
Thread Name: Slave Songs - What Are They Called???
Subject: RE: Slave Songs - What Are They Called???
This may be slightly off the subject, but has anyone come up with a good way to modify old songs that contain words that are just too objectionable to justify under the banner of folk authenticity. I'm thinking of the song "Year of Jubilo" as published in Wayne Erbsen's old-time song book, where the objectionable word is replaced by "worker". It makes it sound like a communist youth song, so much so that my partner and I wrote a new verse to it:

Seriously, though, it's a serious question.

Chet W.