Great thread! - creep or not; Since I too, have been singing the MTA for virtually all of my singing life (along w/many others learned from the KT, like Greenback Dollar," which, BTW, kids have always loved - & parents seem to tolerate in spite of "don't give a damn.") - & still lovin it.

I await w/"baited breath" (whatever that is) the next installment of the origins of the MTA....

Cheers, BK (am I supposed to eat chum, or some other kind of bait fish? can you make a decent curry from bait fish - or fish chowder?)