[Skywise]

Statue in question
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Foster_(sculpture)#/media/File%3AMonument_to_Stephen_Foster.jpg

[freefdny]

Insanity.

[smokingfrog]

Are these lyrics offensive?

1.
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”
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Chorus
I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low:
I hear their gentle voices calling, “Old Black Joe”.

2.
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again,
Grieving for forms now departed long ago.
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”.
Chorus

3.
Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?
The children so dear that I held upon my knee,
Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go.
I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”