hi

At first I always tried to fulfill requests if I knew them well enough to sing and play. many we did were not by any means "perfect".

However I soon learned that with few exceptions we got little thanks for this. And more important we got no self satisfaction for playing something that we either didn't like or knew that with practice we would perform it better.

So what I decided to do was to reply to all requests with something like " I can't do it now but if you come next week I will do it.

And this worked quite well.

In fact we had one young lady who asked me would I sing " Once I had a Sweetheart".

I knew this by Joan Baez and SteeleyeSpan but told her that it was a female song. I am most definitely male....

But she was persistent........!!

So when I got home I sought out the tracks I had and I knocked out a version that I was happy to sing. The boys joined me a couple of days later ans after some arguments and discussion we got a very reasonable version together.

The young lady was present and asked me when I was on my own would I do the song.

We did it with some misgivings from one of the gang. The song went down extremely well and for many moons we were requested to sing that number by more people than we ever thought possible.

So .....is there a moral here...?????

John