Oddly eonough, I tend not to revise my songs much... which might explain a few things... so the version you hear me sing is usually the version I wrote first.

I have been known to start writing a song at the beginning of the morning session and sing it at the end.. twice now that's happened, they're both songs I've been asked to repeat or share with other singers and they're the ones I have least trouble in remembering.

Perhaps that's the key. By overworking a lyric, we take out the spontenaety, the very thing that made it worth singing about in the first place. It's the bits that we remember that are worth remembering. If you have trouble recalling the revision, then maybe it's because the revision isn't the right one yet. I can remember odd lines I wrote 20 years ago that have not yet made it into a song, because I can't find a way of working them in. Still they persist in my memory banks, just waiting for the right place to bust out and join in.

LTS