I came across this site a couple of months ago. A friend had mentioned it to me and I looked in with no other intention but to find the words of "Blue Green Bangle". I had no great hopes of actually finding it, but there it was. Mission accomplished. I decided to have a quick nosey around while I was here. Among other things I came across that great thread on the origins of "Carrickfergus". And I returned to the site looking for the words of other songs. And then in noseying through past threads I came across some people trying to decipher the words of a song that I had written many years ago. So I posted a message. And despite being a compulsive non-joiner I was hooked.

Since then I have learned that here I can get a wealth of information about any song in minutes (if not seconds).

I have learned that there are many people out there who have a vast amount of information. And there are a one or two people who seem to know very little (this is a great comfort).

I was taught how to format a song with line breaks etc.

I even learned how to do the blue clicky thing (though not always accurately).

I learned how to transcribe music in ABC notation. When you consider that when I first looked into Mudcat a couple of months ago I had never even heard of ABC. And I could not have done it without the assistance of many generous people out there.

Recently I saw a thread here entitled "Is Mudcat serving a purpose?" To me this seemed like an incredibly stupid question. I couldn't be bothered to even glance at this thread. Life is too short. But not too short to post this message of praise and thanks.