I agree, Stim. I was surprised one day to learn that the pianist at my church, who majored in organ and piano, pays no attention to the accompaniments provided by the publishers. She just looks at the chords and lets rip.

But my point was not merely that the chords are wrong. Editors seem to think the chord symbols are music theory - they say what chord the notes make up, rather than what chord would sound best. The acc doesn't have to duplicate the melody.

By the way, today I was paging through the Hal Leonard Co's 'Celtic Fake Book.' They had the well-known song 'I Know Where I'm Going' in the key of E. One measure had the notes E and B. Now the notes in the chord E are E-G#-B, so you'd think that the E chord would be just the ticket. But what did Hal Leonard call for?

C#m7. Num!