Well, whenever I try to sing some of the gut-bucket blues I sound an awfully lot like Julie Andrews-does-Ma-Rainey. And many things I intend to be bluesy come out country-bluesy because, you can take the girl outta Oklahoma, but you can't always take Oklahoma outta the girl's voice. A Southern accent kinda stays with you.

I love that song "Rolling Down to Old Maui," but I'm afraid I sound awfully foo-foo attempting it. It used to be fun in our sings back in New Mexico, however, because everyone joined in most enthusiastically and I could just harmonize and pretend to be a mermaid sitting in on the shanty.

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