The first "tune" in my piano book consisted of one note, middle C, played over and over. It had words to it "Bang,bang,bang on the big bass drum". Song No. 2 was Middle C and D, "Froggies croaking in the pool". From then on in, I continued to drive my parents crazy.

First folk song I learned for public consumption, aged 16 or so, was "Queen Eleanor's Confession" (mercifully unaccompanied - my guitar playing has never got much further than page 6 of Bert Weedon's Play-A-Tune-A-Day).

- jeanie