ROBERT BURNS WINS
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, July 5. A collection of bawdy folk songs by Robert Burns has survived the Australian censorship laws. The Australian Customs Department refused to allow the collection of folksongs —entitled “The Merry Muses of Caledonia—a collection of Bawdy Folksongs, Ancient and Modern”—to go on sale before it went through the department’s censorship process. The decision to release the book for sale was made by the Australian Minister for Customs, Senator Ken Anderson—himself of Scottish parentage. The first page of the collection—a photograph of a title of an original Burns collection pronounced the key-note of the collection: “Say puritan, can it be wrong To dress plain truth in witty song What honest nature says we do What every lady does—or would do.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30795, 6 July 1965, Page 15
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