Utah Phillips wrote some heartbreaking lyrics to a fiddle tune called WHISTLERS' WALTZ, which he learned from hanging out at the fiddle contest in Weiser,Idaho. It's sometimes called RUSTY McDRELL after the fiddler who he heard play the tune(or maybe McDrell wrote it). Rosalie Sorrels put it in her fine collection WAY OUT IN IDAHO. Unfortunately, my copy is still buried in a box under my bed, impossible to reach at the moment. Anyway, the tune is a Hestitation Waltz and Utah wrote some beautiful words.

Mark Ross