Thanks, Genie:

I've enjoyed this thread a great deal, even though I haven't taken a stab at writing the second verse. As for suggesting verses that never get used, I was seqrching around a few weeks ago for the words to a song that I wrote back in 1963. I'd not only forgotten the words, I'd forgotten the song. Someone surfaced on the internet who wanted the words to the song, and I looked through old notebooks to see if I could find them. All that I found were some scattered verses, lines and a very rough draft of the song. I tried piecing at all together, and sent what I could remember off to another friend who goes back that far, when I discovered that he still sings the song. It was interesting to see what he sings, what I remember, and the verses and lines that were in the notebook. There were a couple of lines that I thought were quite good that my friend didn't sing, and never remembered hearing. I guess I never came up with a matching couplet to make them in to a verse. As you know, songwriting is a process and many songs evolve into something quite different than what they started out to be. I think that whatever lines or verses end up in Bobert's song, the final shape of his song will reflect all of your ideas, my questions and suggestions. MMario is right... :-)

Jerry