We do requests occasionally...usually our audience is very polite, and they ask at reasonable moments.

However, at one gig, we were not only requested to sing something by "Bruce Hornsby" (whilst dressed in golden age of Piracy garb, playing all acoustic/historic instruments), but we were asked while *right in the middle* of a song. Now that was the most annoying request ever. Fortunately, it is not the norm.

But, I *am* completely tired of "Drunken Sailor" (We call it "DFS"...you may correctly infer what the "F" is for), "Roll the Chariots", "Wild Mt. Thyme" and "The Boatman". All nice songs, all songs I thoroughly enjoyed once upon a time...all done to death to the point of nausea.

Sometimes the fans don't let you completely give a song up, and so, we bite our tongues, and play them anyway. Canna complain too much though...I still get to do what I love best, and people pay me to do it. Doing old standards even when you're sick of them is a small price to pay.