Definately preserve. Perform if by doing so you can shed historical knowledge. Explain why you're performing the song. I find this quest for "Political Correctness' a guise with which to stifle the intellectual freedom of the people. Yes it is wrong to use the "N word" (Or any other such ethnically derogitory term) this comes under the heading of manners. If you're ignorant enough to use such, then you're not going to care about "PC" anyway. If you're not why should you not be able to check "Huckleberry Finn" or Tom Sawyer" from the library? I balk at the attempted censorship implied by the political correctness movement. Bigotry will only die by a free and open exchange of ideas not by enforced ettiquette lessons. Long live the freedom to speak your mind! Neil