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Bonnie Raitt changed Chris Smither’s “Love You Like a Man” to “Love Me Like a Man”, and I’m glad she did!
Dave Van Ronk recorded Bessie Smith’s “You’ve Been a Good Ole Wagon” and fortunately didn’t change the gender. I happened to find this excellent version of “You’ve Been a Good Ole Wagon” by Sarah Rogo, who I’d never heard of before:
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About ten years ago I was faced with a similar situation of my own, when a lovely young lady who lived in my old Brooklyn apartment - in fact occupying my former bedroom - turned up in my fifth-grade class (I had moved out several years earlier, but my father - whom she knew - still lived in the building). I had a long-standing tradition, on the last day of school, of sending my kids off with a song (usually John Denver's "This Old Guitar"); this year I chose Neil Diamond's "Brooklyn Roads" (long a part of my solo-gig repertoire) and made the necessary adaptations to reflect the current situation: "Two floors above the tailor, first door on the right..." "...Does some pretty young girl, come home to my room, Does she dream what I did as she sits by my window, And looks out on those Brooklyn roads..."
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