The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17799   Message #172952
Posted By: Molly Malone
03-Feb-00 - 02:33 PM
Thread Name: Help: Performing
Subject: RE: Help: Performing
Just remember that you will screw up. It will happen. Let it. No one ever notices. They don't know it's your first time on stage. Great example: Friend of mine was on stage for the first time. First song: Night Visit (Pretty Fair Maid...many other names) He got to the line about

"I got up and I made the bed, and I made it nice and easy." He, however, sang:

" I got up and I laid her down, and I laid her nice and easy."

His friends rolled, he turned red, and no one else noticed.

He still performs that verse at sessions...the second way.