I've been working on Christmas in the Trenches since early September. I figure that if I sing it once a day for almost four months that I'll be able to do it without choking up by the time Christmas gets here.

I've been talking with some old-time style fiddlers about working up some of the standard carols as old-timey tunes. If you get rid of that stiff cadence that they're usually done in and just pretend you're playing them for a contra-dance Deck the Halls, Good King Wenceslas (Sp?) and several others make really cool fiddle tunes.

Bruce