Guest,999: Part of newcomers learning the ropes is them finding out if a song they intend to do will conflict with another performer who may have already decided to do that song. I listened to "I'll Fly Away" three times one evening in an hour and a half at an open mike.

Surely it's elementary for someone planning to perform to prepare more songs than they're planning to sing, in case someone else pre-empts one of them? I'm still relatively inexperienced at performing but would never turn up at an event with only as many songs prepared as I thought I'd get time to do. If someone else does one of "my" songs before I get a chance to do it, I just switch to another. The only time I can recall this failing was when I turned up half-way through a singaround due to various delays and was told (afterwards) that the (quite obscure) song I'd just done had in fact been done earlier by someone else.