Goody!

It's amazing how many of Service's poems are singable. In fact I think they work better as songs than as poems. Debby McClatchy has a great one for Blasphemous Bill McKie, and of course we have her to thank for the tune on Cremation of Sam McGee. I think sometimes that his poems are like a complete songwriting workshop-- it's all there: characters, story, rhyme, internal rhymes, images, great consonants. Awful lotta verses though! (Maybe why my songs often tend to be so long.) Melodies seem to fit them just right.

I did not know his work was available online-- I'm still an internet newbie, and usually think first of books. "One of these days" I was going to xerox what I have and work out chords-- this will be much better. Thanks!

~S~