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Thu Sep-02-10 07:57 AM
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Songs with 'gay' in teh lyrics

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Edited on Thu Sep-02-10 07:58 AM by pokerfan

An Australian school has been criticised for dropping the word 'gay' from a children's song.

Garry Martin, the head of Lepage Primary in Melbourne, said that he replaced the word with 'fun' to avoid children rolling around on the floor in "fits of laughter".

After Australian media reported the story, he said he received angry emails from the public.

The song, which dates from the 1930s, is titled 'Kookaburra Sits in an Old Gum Tree'. The first verse usually goes: "Laugh, kookaburra, laugh, kookaburra, gay your life must be".

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68118O20100902

So that got me thinking. What other songs will need editing to appease this principal?

1. Meet the Flintstones. (We'll have a gay old time.)
2. Deck the Halls (don we now our gay apparel.)
3. ?

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