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Listening to the Blue Mink's Melting Pot today I realised how a song written with the best intentions sounds racist these days. The lines I refer to are:

"Take a pinch of white man
Wrap him up in black skin
Add a touch of blue blood
And a little bitty bit of red Indian boy
Oh like a Curly Latin kinkies
Oh Lordy, Lordy, mixed with yellow Chinkees, yeah
You know you lump it all together"

Unsurprisingly Boyzone changed the lyrics when they released a version.

Anyone think of any other lyrics that sound un-PC these days?

How about "Brown Sugar" by the Rolling Stones?

It's one of those songs where I never really paid much attention to the lyrics until I saw someone do it on the Karaoke.....

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields,
Sold in a market down in new orleans.
Scarred old slaver know he’s doin’ alright.
Hear him whip the women just around midnight.
Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good
(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should
A-huh.

Drums beating, cold english blood runs hot,
Lady of the house wond’rin where it’s gonna stop.
House boy knows that he’s doin’ alright.
You should a heard him just around midnight.
Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good
(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a black girl should
A-huh.

I bet your mama was a tent show queen, and all her boy
Friends were sweet sixteen.
I’m no schoolboy but I know what I like,
You should have heard me just around midnight.

Ah brown sugar how come you taste so good
(a-ha) brown sugar, just like a young girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said
Oh just like a, just like a black girl should.

I said yeah, I said yeah, I said yeah, I said
Oh just like, just like a black girl should.

I always thought Lou Reed's 'And the coloured girls go doo do doo do doo' was a little bit dubious. Strange though how 'coloured' seems to be everyone's choice of description as opposed to black, even though it's a little bit rude with even the best of intentions.

Brown girl in the Ring - racist b**tards Boney M

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Jarvis Cocker or David Bowie or AVB or Johnny Borrell, she isn't picky

Cavey Cocker, Cup Cake Queen, Saint Thomas.

Bob Dylan: "I've got myself a brown-skinned girl, but I love her just the same", or something like that. Hmmm.

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