Occasionally I've asked for a prompt from people who've heard my song before, and I never get one. Does this mean they never listen? Being a bit deaf, I wouldn't know what the prompt was if I got one! I doubt if I could prompt for a song I'd never sung myself.

I find the trouble with using the words is that (a) you lose eye-contact if you're reading from the paper, (b) if you use it as an aide-memoire you lose your place on the page and have to stop singing to find it, (c) you keep looking at it even when you do know the words, (d) you never learn the words anyway.

Steve

PS I mistyped (c) as "you keep looking a tit ..."! Freudian slip?