"I'm wondering at so many people who seem to be independently wealthy, that all they have to do is sit about all day memorizing songs."

One song at a time, Ref, one song at a time. And speaking of time, it takes time to build a repertoire. I started around 1952. In 1955, I sat down and made a list of the songs I had learned. About 50. That's not even two new songs a month. A verse a day? Piece of cake!

Now I wasn't (and am not) rich, and I didn't spend all day learning songs. Part of that time I was going to college and part of that time I was working. Well, that was 50+ years ago, and I just kept right on learning songs. I'm still learning songs, and I'm not sure how many songs I know now, but it's a few hundred at least. And that's from memory, complete with guitar chords--muscle memory helps there.

But although I don't worry about money as long as I'm frugal, I'm still not rich.

Maybe we need to spend a bit of time on how to go about memorizing songs. It ain't that hard if you know how to go about it.

Gotta go now, and we have company tomorrow, so I'll try to tackle that in a couple of days.

Don Firth