Lyle Lofgren 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 = 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
Well, if I could ever burn Hank Bradley's "Beasties in the Sugar" I
could go anytime. TonyG
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