By the way, editor Peter Blood told me recently (he's sort of a distant in-law) that the forthcoming Rise Up Singing 2 (stop that shuddering Jon) will have a lot more "bawdy songs and drinking songs" than the first one.

The intention of RUS was not to be a definitive collection of folksongs, anyway--it was a collection of songs they (peter and annie) liked which could be sung in a group. But I guess they've heard the oft-repeated criticisms of the book as being excessively PC,(gee, maybe Greil Marcus has seen it) and are broadening the scope somewhat. (I don't know if they'll still do those sneaky little changes to lyrics which might be construed as sexist or racist by some). If the first book hadn't been so amazingly successful, nobody would care--but it has become a de facto standard text.

Bill