Ken (& everyone),

Since July 4 falls on a Wednesday this year ~ exactly in the middle of the week ~ there won't be a "Fourth of July weekend." I just checked the MJH Museum website, and their festival this year will be on Tuesday and Wednesday, 7/3 and 7/4. This probably makes it even more problematic for me to attend the MJH festival than in past years, but anything can happen. We'll see...

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lefthanded guitar:

Could you please post lyrics for some of the lesser-known "Pallet" verses you've discovered? I have printed out everything available from the DT (here at the Mudcat site), which includes all the verses ever recorded by MJH plus quite a few others. You could check the DT to see the verses already available, and just post any others you have learned... Please?!?!

I've never sung all these verses, but it's good to have a backlog. Like you, I've been playing this song forever and never seem to get tired of it. It's very enjoyable to play chorus after chorus (especially when you know a variety of different "turnarounds" to pick between verses), and having a bunch of different lyrics available gives you an excuse to stretch a performance out to maximum length.