Oddly some of the songs I've had the most trouble learning are Carter Family Songs. You wouldn't think that would be the case because so many of them are simple. But, there are a few of their songs where the lines are so oddly constructed that they seem like someone threw the words in a hat and pulled them out and pasted them together at random. I ended up writing a chorus to a song that has that confused, weird Carter Family stgructure to it... probably because of the trouble I've had with some of their songs..

   He was just an old fiddler come back to the homestead
   As old as the cabin that stood in the woods
   Almost forgotten from times hard-remembered
   Of nights by the fire with friends gone for good.

"Amost forgotten from times hard remember, of nights by the fire with friends gone for good?" Sheesh!!! What a sentence!!!

Jerry