A few weeks back, we went to see Joan Armatrading. (Fantastic, incidentally, if you've not seen her - very good singer and guitarist, and a brilliant natural entertainer.) Anyway, come the encore, she asked what we wanted to hear. People shouted out various stuff, and then someone down the front mentioned some song (which I didn't hear, being at the back). JA looks down and says "Did I write that?" The woman at the front says "Yes, it was on album such-and-such". JA thinks for a bit, then laughs and says "No, she's right, she's right!"

For me, I generally find that tunes stick around once I've learnt them, although words might flee my mind like Dracula's bats through a window. :-) But *writing* and *learning* are two very different things. Once I've got it sorted, I use my MP3 recorder to make an "official" version that I'll then stick to for learning it.

Graham.