WOW!!! Little did I think when I stuck my two cents in that I'd get a million dollar welcome back. I got interested in folk music when I was a college freshman in 1944 (!?!) and found the house library had lots of 78 rpm records including the Library of Congress collections. The high point I remeber was attending a young Pete Seeger concert and singing so enthusiastically on the choruses that I was invited to "take the next verse' of a song I didn't know; I extemporized a passable verse about my ignorance to applause, but my face was as crimson as the school colors. Over the years I've accumulated a guitar and a banjo and a couple of tin whistles and someones home made dulcimer that I picked up in a junk shop for $10 - none of which I've mastered enough to appear in public. I'm located in Bronxville in Westchester County about 16 miles from Times Square. I found Mudcat by asking my local librarian to help me find the lyrics to a song I remembered from an LP I'd borrowed years before. She promptly handed me a printout from the DT of 'The Rumseller's Wife'. Before I noticed the dot org, I learned more than I ever wanted to know about small earthy-moving equipment. After learning lots of lyrics, and learning that some folks transcriptions from records varied a lot from what I had been hearing, I started exploring the Forum, got hooked, and here I am. Pleased to make your acquaintance, all. ALthough - like earth-moving equipment - there is the danger of learning more than I want to know about some terrible senses of humor. BTW I have worn a beard for decades, and it's now fairly long and white, enough so for me to play Santa Claus professionally au naturel, and I resented a reference in another thread to someone having 'lost his faith in the guy with the white beard'. Personally, and in my Santa persona, I strive to reaffirm that faith. WOW!!! Little did you think that you'd open these flood gates, did you?