Jery, I'm sure that the reference to razors would have been offensive to members of the Black Baptist Church you sing with, but maybe less so now, since most people don't recall the folding straight razor so common in the 1900-1930 era (maybe longer). It was supposed to be the weapon of choice of the Blacks. A common joke among white kids was that a Black could toss an apple into the air and peel it with his razor before it hit the ground. We had one Black kid in our primary school (1930s) and he assured us that it was true. In those days one of our favorite games at lunch break was mumbleypeg, and he was good at it. Nowadays, kids carrying knives to school get rousted, but at that time, every boy carried a good pocket knife and many of us had hunting knives which we used on the trees.