Performing at the late, lamented Morley's in Norristown, PA on St. Patrick'e Day many years ago, I was asked to do my "maudlin medley" one of which is "A Mother's Love's A Blessing." I was well into it when a woman stood up and began to scream "Shut up, you bastard! Stop it!!" Assuming it was another St.Patrick's Day drunk, I kept going and finished the song, at which time she stormed the stage and tried to nail me with a bottle, screaming incoherently all the while. Her friends managed to subdue her, and wrestle her away from the joint. I finished the set. About a half hour later, one of her friends came back and apologized on her behalf, explaing that her mother had died a couple of days previously, and they had thought it would be a good idea to bring her out to the pub to cheer her up. Oh, well.

Seamus