Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: leeneia
Date: 07 Feb 19 - 10:35 AM

I'm with you, Rich-joy, Wysiwig and Thompson.

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 02:10 AM

Arthur Godfrey also had a hit with the “Too Fat Polka”.

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 09:12 AM

And I'd boycott anyone doing what Godfrey did. Read up on Ragen Chastain FMI, esp her work on misfiagnoses.

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 10 Feb 19 - 05:37 PM

> Feel absolutely free to sing this song about a father beating his daughter.

> I won't be going to any of your performances after that, though.

Does the same apply to someone singing Mill o'Tiftie's Annie? Or is that OK because the narration is on Annie's side and (mildly) critical of her family ("Woe be tae her brither")?

Or what about the ballads (two of them) where a Scots girl is burnt at the stake for refusing to abandon her love of an Englishman?

Subject: RE: Is this song appropriate?: Slap Her Down Again Paw
From: GUEST,Fred Isenor
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 10:25 AM

Arthur Godfrey did not write the song. The writers were Polly Arnold-Alice Cornett-Eddie Asherman. Probably first recorded by Esmereldy on Musicraft # 524.