Sunny Sister - all the threads here prove that it takes all kinds. I think that 'Cold Missouri Waters' is one of the WORST songs ever written. banal, lousy melody, & weak, weak lyrics. It's a sad story, but the song sucks. Second only to 'the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'. And I have nothing against Canadian songwriters! love Leonard Cohen, for example, Joni, et al. but Lightfoot and Keelaghan are totally overrated in my book (and I work in a library, so there!)