A couple years ago I was at a Lou Killen house concert and realized he had exactly the same problem I do with the first two verses of "Three Score and Ten." You get to the second verse "Me thinks" and, remembering the first verse "Me thinks" stop to think about if you've sung that verse already -- screws ya up every time.

It's frustrating sometimes when the lead singer forgets some words and looks to one of the harmony singers (who knows the song as well as he/she) for the words, but when you're singing along with someone, you're using a different part of the brain than when you're remembering the verses/words in the proper order to sing them. Sigh.

Yeah, it's the ones you know frontwards, backwards and inside out that drive you crazy. I got crossthreaded in the 2nd/3rd verse of "Nine Times a Night" last night -- I've only been singing it for 20 years. Tried but I couldn't even jump verse to get back on track. So I did it again a little later. (Unfortunately starting it a little higher than I should have.)

Linn