[cinFLA]

A lot of them cowboy songs include racist code words. Take that song "Rawhide" for example. "Rope and throw and brand ‘em" refers to marking slaves. "Tumbling tumbleweeds" is code-talk for runaway slaves."

This has to be written as a farce. No?

[parsifal]

I don't know. A lot of old songs are about other stuff. For example, Puff The Magic Dragon and Last Dance With Mary Jane are about marijuana. "Follow the Drinking Gourd" was about the underground railroad and the 'drinking gourd' was the Big Dipper. parsy, interpreter of song.

[Paul Atreides]

"Tumbling tumbleweeds" is code-talk for runaway slaves."

That sounds more like a reference to afros.