<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">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.</span><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">There are real challenges for me in some popular ones - for example, despite the fun of the sequence, Smoke on the Water's <a href="https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1383">https://squaredancehistory.org/items/show/1383</a> 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.</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:39 AM, Alexandra Deis-Lauby via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">People are not things. I don’t think it’s appropriate for any crowd. <div>Try your hand at some new lyrics! <div><br><div id="m_-4558652454100555413AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Mar 25, 2018, at 1:12 AM, Rich Sbardella via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Hello folks,<div><br><div>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."</div></div><div><br></div><div>Here is a link to a version of the full song, not within a square.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKRJuLHU3Qo" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=cKRJuLHU3Qo</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><div>Any Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Rich</div><div>Stafford, CT</div></div>
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