Forgot to add...

As encouraging as they were, it was still extremely frustrating when starting out. I was making a concious effort to find songs with choruses that weren't cliche diddies that are on every Clancy Brothers Greatest Hits album, and all of the good ones seemed taken.

They could have given me ice cream when saying "someone already does that", and it still would have frustrated me.

I'd have taken the ice cream, though.

;-)