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@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@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 > > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: Callers@lists.sharedweight.net > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > List Name: Callers mailing list > List Address: Callers@lists.sharedweight.net > Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/ > >
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