Somebody asked for some good news, so here it is.

Two weeks ago, three friends and I took a vacation from Missouri to far-off Arkansas (the next state south.) How nice it was! Beautiful ridges, forests, clear streams. A fine cave (Blanchard Springs), diamond-hunting (we didn't find any), the Crystal Bridges Museum, nice people. We even found a gear nobody knew we had: Sport, for those heart-stopping downslopes.

One evening we attended a show at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View and were part of the radio audience. I asked in the gift shop for a CD of music that was sweet-sounding and played in tune, and the clerk looked at me wildly as if I were talking in Greek. But she recovered and suggested a CD by a young group called Possum Juice.

Possum Juice played a lovely waltz called "Rocking the Babies to Sleep", and I vowed to learn it. The ABC and the sheet music can be found on thesession.org   (click on Tunes, enter title)

Here's the ABC:

X: 1
T: Rock All Our Babies To Sleep
R: waltz
M: 3/4
L: 1/8
K: Dmaj
z2 z2 FG | A2 B3 A | |G2 A2 G2 | (F2A,3 D) | F4 FG|
F2 E2 F2 |1,3 G2 F2 G2 | B4A2 | F4 :|2,4 G3F E2 | D6- | D4 :|
FG | A2f3 A| B2 g4 | Af- fg fd | A4 cd |
c2 E3 F | G3 F G2 |1,3 B4 A2 | F4 :|2,4 G3F E2 | D6- | D4 :|

The z2's signify two rests. The tune then starts with two pick-up notes, each one an eighth.

It is a surprisingly sophisticated tune. I'll be back with another link.