That change in the accepted meaning of the word has made a few old songs a bit comical too. (For example, "When I Was a Bachelor Gay", which is supposed to be about a previously care-free guy who has recently married, but there is no suggestion of a change of preference. It also made a couple of Jim Reeves' songs a bit odd. In "Partners" two guys go out into the wilds prospecting for gold, one of them being "A gay young fool". In "Streets of Laredo" the hero says "Once in the saddle I used to go gay", but he says that where he used to "go gay" was Rosie's, which would be an odd arrangement for a gay guy.) It's kind of unfortunate that every time the language changes, a lot of existing literature is orphaned.
