Crane Driver --

(BTW, isn't it awfully hard to hitch a team of cranes to a wagon? And what kind of harnesses do they make for birds, anyhoo? ;-))

While I agree that life is too short to worry about being *pure* in the singing (after all, we *Are* talking about "folk music", where each new singer contributes to the composition), but sometimes, there are so many slurs and grace notes, it's hard to tell where to even begin, as in this song: Black-eyed Susan

(I'll probably figure it out, simply by listening to it over and over... now *this* is where this thread meshes perfectly with "Karaoke of the mind?" ... listen to it so much until *everything* you read starts sliding into the melody, then go back and read the lyrics... But there's got to be a much less annoying way to go about it...) ;-)