Hey, Tom: One of the awkward side effects of being a high mileage model, like I am, is that I now have songs I wrote almost 50 years ago. I wrote The Drunkard's Last Advice around 1952, and it's one of the songs that I still enjoy singing today. I'm glad I taped some of the old stuff, though. These days, a logical introdcution I could give to a song is "Here's a song I learned from an old recording of me." If I don't tell anyone I wrote it and I never recorded it, maybe it's really a traditional song? :-) Shhhhhhh!!!!! Don't tell anyone I wrote it!

Jerry

And yes, the traditional and folk arguments and perceptions are different on the two sides of the pond. We're young 'uns over here. An antique is anything over 50 years old. I find it weird when I go into a historical society museum and see a cherry pitter in a case. It's just like the one we had when I was a kid.

Folk music is so yesterday.

We's all antiques in here.

Jerry