We play some of those way old songs that have twenty million verses. Mister often tapes reminder notes to the top of his guitar. A friend of mine put together a very nice songbook, with lyrics only, tied up with a ribbon and all that, so if I need it, it's there. Use it a lot around the campfire and living room, only used it once performing solo. Looks nice when you're standing there holding it.

Now for Christmas songs, I put together something like my friend's songbook, only much smaller, and made several copies (don't worry, it's all PD stuff) so that when we play holiday events, people can sing along with us. Besides, we only do Christmas songs about two months out of the year, and just can't remember them all.

I say, do what you have to do to get the job done. After all, isn't how the music makes you -feel- the most important thing?