You know, people always say how the music of yester-year was so much more innocent than it is now, but have you ever really thought about the words to these old songs? I'll give you a few examples

"Ole king Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he. He called for his pipe, he called for his bowl, and he called for his fiddlers three."

Clearly Ole king Cole was a pot head. A pipe? A bowl? And the fiddlers, surely only a precuser to Phish and the Greatful Dead.

"Jimmie crack corn an' I don't care"

And people will lead you to believe that apathy is a new problem.

"A peanut sat On a railroad track, His heart was all a-flutter, Round the bend Came number ten. Toot! Toot! Peanut butter! SQUISH!"

Glorifies suicide

"Someone's in the kitchen with Dina...Dina won't you blow, Dina won't you blow..."

Apparently the kind of scandal that's rocking the country now has been going on for years...

" She'll be riding six white horses when she comes."

And this is before the internet, folks!

"...give the dog a bone, this old man go rolling home."

Similar to the above.

"Are you sleeping, are you sleeping? Brother John, Brother John?"

You can draw your own conclusions about this one.

I'm not even going into what the "Jack Sprat" nursery rhyme means...