Don't apologize for wierd mixed metaphors, Joe, here they earn you double bonus points.

It's funny, reading this thread and listening to the tune, I'm having musical flashbacks to the times I spent visiting family in Northeast PA; seems like there was always polka music around, and I really haven't heard it again until today (WAIT! Isn't there a cable channel that plays all-polka, all-the-time, and only in faraway hotel rooms?! Another misty memory....)

Anyway, this thread is great; weaving old and new, slipping a polka-micky to the crowd.

One of my new favorite singers-and-songwriters is Jolie Holland, and she's been doing some weirdly wonderful versions of very old folk songs on her albums, which tickles me that way also.

Carry on!

Dani