Every time I sing "Snowbird, " I have a hard-to-suppress urge to sing, "Spread your f**ing wings and fly away." (instead of "tiny wings")

Blackouts - - ah, yes-- it's easy to sort of go on automatic pilot when repeating the same set of songs over and over. This last week I did a bunch of St. Patrick's parties for retirement residences, with the oft-requested US favorites, e.g., Irish Eyes, Galway Bay, etc. being repeated several times a day. I was singing "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" at a party on Sunday, and when it came to the second verse, I spontaneously slipped into the second verse of Mother, Machree and got got halfway through the second line before I realized I had merged two songs. (They have very similar chord structure, meter, etc.) The audience, who were singing along from songbooks, noticed right away, of course.

Genie