Delilah isn’t Appropriate for Kids to Sing

[Wenfy]

Tom Jones is apparently complaining about a kids’ choir being banned from singing it at the Rugby, but it’s a horrible, horrible song that glorifies female violence.

So the real question is why do people sing it at the Rugby in the first place!!

I think it's inappropriate for anyone to sing. But I appear to be in a minority of 1 in this!

I used to get mad when exh took DS2 in his car and he would home singing Sex Bomb. He was 6 at the time and started singing it in a supermarket once.

I think it's a terrific song but only when Sir Tom Jones sings it.

Oh here we go.

I couldn’t get my knickers in a twist about this.

Written by a woman.

@KimberleyClark , the song was written by men

The problem is the source material, but we're not allowed to ban the Bible.

Yes I know that having googled, should have checked, but I'm sure that Ion e heard it was written by a woman.

Is this really something people are bothered about?!

These are the lyrics in case anyone’s interested. Disgusting

I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window
I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind
She was my woman
As she deceived me, I watched and went out of my mind
My, my, my, Delilah
Why, why, why, Delilah
I could see, that girl was no good for me
But I was lost like a slave that no man could free
At break of day when that man drove away, I was waiting
I crossed the street to her house and she opened the door
She stood there laughing
I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more
My, my, my, Delilah
Why, why, why, Delilah
So before they come to break down the door
Forgive me Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore
She stood there laughing
I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more
My, my, my, Delilah
Why, why, why, Delilah
So before they come to break down the door
Forgive me, Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore
Forgive me, Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore

I'm in Wales so our kids start singing it while they learn to talk.

@frecklejuice "Is this really something people are bothered about?!"

Yep. Violence against women does bother me a bit.

Don't listen to any Nick Cave then

Ban the rapper shit music, I say.

It's a song, I can't get worked up over song lyrics from 1968!

Oh do piss off!

Uhhh what???

You do know there’s not one biblical reference in the song right? It’s as much about Delilah in the Bible as Valerie is about Valerie Singleton.

@Knackeredhamster
"Don't listen to any Nick Cave then"

Unlikely for him to be sung by children at a rugby match. But hey-nothing's impossible.

@frecklejuice "It's a song, I can't get worked up over song lyrics from 1968!"

I'd forgotten that violence against women is lost in the mists of history.

Despite it's violent subject, it's not glorifying the violence. Rather the opposite imo. Men of Harlech is not exactly a peaceful idyll

You're definitely not, @CurlewKate - I can't bear it and a lot of my female friends feel the same.

Celebrating femicide in a song is beyond the pale.

Whilst we are at it we can also ban all the crap rap songs, and what about banning Miss Otis Regrets and Banks of the Ohio

This! That music is far more damaging to young people than Delilah.

All songs, from any era, genre, etc., with lyrics like these are abhorrent.

Are songs only allowed to be about rainbows and love and nice things?