I have been asked, along with a couple of other folk/blues players, to provide music for an evening campfire sing-along at [I know this is mildly bizarre] a conference of utility regulators - you know, the folks who set rates for telephone, gas, and electric companies.

Being good Northwesterners, we've already thought of Woody Guthrie's "Roll On Columbia". We've come up with a number of lyrics that mention telephones ("Long distance information, get me Memphis Tennesee . . .", "Helloooo, Baby, It's the Big Bopper . . .", etc.)

We also have a fair number of song parodies inspired by California's electricty restructuring fiasco: (to the tune of Dylan's "Don't think twice") "You paid twice, it's all right," and (to the tune of Rawhide) "Rolling, rolling, rolling, keep them black-outs rolling . . . "! ;)

Anyway, we still feel a trifle thin on the song list, and any ideas you may have would be very much appreciated. (BTW, I've been hanging at Mudcat for only a month or so, but y'all really feel like community - thanks!)

Jeffrey Showman aka dr soul