Ron, I'm not going to argue with you, I stated an opinion and a preference in the light of someone else asserting that my earlier statement bolstered his opinion. It did not.

I am reminded of how I learned folk dances back in the days when I lived near an active folkdance community and danced every week. One got behind a row or line or group of dancers who knew the dance and you were not in the way as you watched and practiced the steps to learn the dance. You didn't join in the line or the square or the circle until you had the rudiments at least, so you weren't going to trip up the rest of the dancers.

Those who wanted to start out with the experienced dancers were generally taken aside and told how to learn it or someone taught them the steps away from the line. If you went there to dance, you wanted to dance, and learners of a given dance were expected to learn in a way that didn't impede the enjoyment of everyone else. This analogous approach is one I would also consider appropriate also in the song circle setting. If you have the book along, don't plan to lead the song from it, learn the song in the background first.

SRS