Sounds good, Joe_F.

I DO practice songs for several weeks before trying to sing them, but as I only have small amounts of time 20 to 30 minutes at any given stretch in a day, to sing alone without the book/page, I never seem to get more than a chorus and one or two verses "down" in my head.

I figure the best of the world is to sing it with the page in front mof me. I think many of us have the page there for a crutch, more than anything. As I said in the thread about stage fright, it is also handy when I don't want to "see" the audience. I can tune out the audience and just sing.