If religion were a thing that money could buy,

the rich could divorce, buy an expensive annulment from the Vatican, remarry, and remain in the state of grace,

and the poor would be condemned to eternal hellfire for living in sin with an unsanctioned second spouse!

Sorry about the thread drift -- perhaps this is an inside joke that only disaffected ex-Catholics can appreciate. I find it hard to believe that anyone actually buys into that particular racket. But enough on that!

On the one-chord-vs-the-other controversy, either must be OK since the melody note is included in both alternatives. Amos' description seems like a reasonable attempt to describe the elusive difference between two musical "feelings," whether or not every term is technically correct. I could add my own minor quibble: Gm is not the relative minor to C, because Am is. But Gm bears *some* definable relationship to the key of C major, since it does occasionally pop up in that key. So does Bb minor ~ certainly more often than does Bb major ~ since Bb minor is the relative minor of, and sounds similar to, F major, which is the subdominant chord in the key of C.

So I guess I'll be trying out three alternatives (Gm, Bbm, & Bb), not just the two ~ if I ever get the $#%^*& guitar back from the shop!