The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79477   Message #1440346
Posted By: Wolfgang
22-Mar-05 - 05:38 AM
Thread Name: Down to ten
Subject: RE: Down to ten
Thanks, guys (meaning here both genders), for trying. I search for these songs about once a year, look in songbooks, used libraries. So if any of these songs would be easily available on a link I would have made something very wrong ((which has happened of course).

So take it more as a bit of small talk about a hobby. If you are fond of song lyrics you know the feeling when seeing a title you have looked for since a decade in front of your eyes. It is for me like the feeling when I enter a big library with songbooks (Cecil Sharp House or the Irish equivalent in Dublin, don't know the name right now) and scan the book backs for names I have heard but never seen.

In another thread someone has written about seeing a certain bird as a lifetime achievement. For me, old books are the equivalent to seeing a rare bird and libraries for me are like churches.

Wolfgang