I don't consider myself a songwriter per se but I have written a couple in my day and even perform some of them in public. My wife had a significant birthday last saturday and I can't tell you how old cause it might embarrass her but it's somewhere between 29 and 31. Anyway, I had been trying to write her a song for the last couple months and I hated everything I came up with, until Saturday afternoon. I got my act together and wrote it down and finished it incredibly quickly. I was pretty happy with the result but one section of the chorus bothered me and I couldn't figure out why. In any case I sang it for her, she loved it, and that night we had a surprise party for her at a local Irish Pub. It was there that I figured out why that part of the chorus bother me. Half way through the singer's version of the Fields of Athenry, I realized that there were three lines I had copied note for note!! I guess that's what happens when you're in a hurry. I've since changed it and I'm still happy with it but I was a little embarrassed when I realized what I had done. Anything like this happen to anyone else out there?

Frank