[Callers] Politically Correct?

[Bob Hofkin]

If I recall the folk song, it's more satirical--she can bake a cherry 
pie and stuff, and turns out to be older than Billy lets on. See if you 
can't find lines in one of the versions that shift the focus.

Bob

On 3/25/2018 02:07, Don Veino via Callers wrote:
> I've started doing singing squares over the past year and have been making
> adjustments to lyrics for each one I do. So far the changes have been
> relatively easy - mostly eliminating explicit gender and talking to
> everyone whenever possible vs. a "talk to the (assumed) lead" focus.
> 
> There are real challenges for me in some popular ones - for example,
> despite the fun of the sequence, Smoke on the Water's
> https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1383 refrain's primary phrase
> essentially amounts to "we'll kill 'em all" - as it's taken from a 1944
> WWII song. I'm personally not ready to call that knowing the meaning and a
> significant re-wording of the key refrain is not likely to go over well
> with fans of the dance.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:39 AM, Alexandra Deis-Lauby via Callers <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> 
>> People are not things. I don’t think it’s appropriate for any crowd.
>> Try your hand at some new lyrics!
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Mar 25, 2018, at 1:12 AM, Rich Sbardella via Callers <
>> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I have been calling singing squares for years, and there is one I love by
>> Dick Leger titled Billy Boy.  The tag line that is sung during the
>> Promenade is "She's a young thing, that cannot leave her mother."
>>
>> Here is a link to a version of the full song, not within a square.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKRJuLHU3Qo
>>
>> My question is, is this song appropriate for the contra dance crowd with
>> the tag line above?  (The tag line is the only line that is sung.)
>>
>> Any Thoughts?
>>
>> Rich
>> Stafford, CT
>>
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