(NOTE: This is a variant on the "what's your most favorite old-time
piece" question. If you can's stand such questions, stop reading NOW!)
For some reason, I've been thinking about mortality ever since my
warranty ran out a couple of years ago (The bible says somewhere that
if you die before three-score-and-ten, you go to heaven whether you
want to or not; after that, you have to be good, avoiding evil like
the plague). Then, the other day, I was listening to Rev. Gary Davis:
"I will do my last singing in this land, someday..." and got to
thinking about this question: what would you like your musical last
"words" to be (tune and/or lyric)?
Suppose you're playing and/or singing in public, and, just as the last
notes re-echo to your ears, God calls you home (painlessly, of
course), so after that, people will say that you "keeled over right
after fini****ng X", where X = the answer to my question.
(I remember reading somewhere that something similar happened to
Fiddling John Powers, although I assume it wasn't as neat as I've
presented it here.)
My choice would be "The Georgia Hobo," as learned from the Cofer
Brothers. What's yours?
Lyle
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