oops. I made a mistake

this: ...long B's. They permit a person to play either C or Em on their measures.

that should be 'permit a person to play G or Em

Joe, sometimes the MIDI's come easily, and sometimes they don't. Timing is the challenge, at least for me. With this tune, I downloaded the old hymn version and made a few changes to make it sound like the midcontinent version.

When I'm in a session, I have fun extemporizing descants like this. Funny thing is, I can whistle them better than I can sing them. I once sent a parakeet into a state of bliss doing that. It sang joyfully along.