I can't resist, and, of course, being from the TV/video game
generation, I can't focus on just one piece of music. Anyway, my first
choice would be "Dandy Lusk" (a tune without another name from
Ferdinand "Dandy" Lusk). Of course, I would need to be playing it with
Walt Koken, Clare Milliner & Pete Peterson just before keeling over
(painlessly and blissfully). [Aside No. 1: Pete and I got Walt & Clare
play that as the processional for our wedding ceremony.] Second choice
would be "Sally Johnson" from Henry Reed, so long as I got to play
with the afore-listed musician line-up. Let's say I get thru those
tunes and havn't expired yet, I would sing "Lift Him Up, That's All,"
from Wa****ngton Phillips. I could be singing that by myself with a
guitar or with angelic harp accompaniment, zither-like of course.
[Aside No. 2: Authorities now agree that the angels up in heaven are
not playing dulceolas, but rather some zither-looking harp-ish
instruments.]
Kellie Allen
On Feb 26, 10:16=EF=BF=BDam, Lyle Lofgren <lylelofg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> (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 =3D 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. =EF=BF=BDWhat's yours?
>
> Lyle
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