JAne: you don't have to be crazy but it helps. Also check out Jerry Goldsmith's American Folk songs Volumes 1&2. It is arranged for guitar but It may be available for banjo. Cattarh I believe is an archaic term for the flu. I know it was used in that vein during the Civil War while Grippe was the term for a cold. OOPS, Intelectual cranial flatulence. I had them backwards, Cattarh is the cold abd the grippe is the flu. To heel with it. To paraphrase that wise man Leonard McCoy on Star Trek, I'm a writer damn it, not a doctor! DOn't run screaming into the night, Jane Pleeeeeeease! Neil