Wow! This conversation has taken my breath away. It's like one of those fantasy dinners where you get to invite three or four famous people from history of your choice, for an unbeatable dinner conversation. I've often thought I'd like to invite combinations like Shakespeare, Galileo, Mozart and Teddy Roosevelt. But the "dinner" I just sat in on by reading the above was easily on that par.

Anyway, back to the subject of Lee Hays. When Pete Seeger turned 75, Bill Moyers did a one-on-one special with him, at his house in upstate New York. After about a half hour of uninterrupted reminiscences about a list of people that would make your head spin, Bill asked Pete something like, out of all those people, is there anyone you really miss? (or whose memory really stands out, or had the most influence on you, or you had the most fun with, or something like that... and I should know, because I still have the video but I'm too lazy to go through it right now for the exact quotes). Anyway, Pete instantly came up with only one name: Lee Hays.