I'll be playing for the first time at a nursing home Monday for Hospice...will first play for group, then individually for any that are bedfast and would like it. I've been singing a long time, so have a lot of songs in my head, but many, tho melodic, have content that is not necessarily "pleasant." I'm wondering if I need to "censure" my repetoire...I would HATE for anybody to do that to me just because I was old...but on the other hand I don't want to offend anyone.

Kat says her Dad, at 84, plays for a nursing home audience and plays anything he feels like. Any other experience out there? The kinds of songs I'm wondering about are "rough" chanteys (Rueben Renzo, Go to Sea No More, for example), parodies like Rickety Tickety Tin, the mayhem of 18th c. folk songs, and gentle anti-war songs like Crow on the Cradle.

This Home has no religious affiliation and I know very few hymns, so will lean heavily on secular folk music.(br>

Maybe I should play it safe at first, then ask THEM if they would be offended....I'm flying blind here, have never done this before....