Thanks Richard - apparently we have vastly different conceptions of what a "talkin' blues" really is. I suspect Sait Woodie would spin in his grave at the mention of "scansion" in conjunction with the form. Ya makes it fit with the git-tar, sport. Given tha tno two TBs I've ever hear scan exactly alike, I'd say it's perfect.... chocolate covered.... ah, I couldn't'a et a whole one anyway....