> 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've been giving this considerable thought
i'd make a deal with the devil to allow me to play again. just one more
tune.
i'd place my national duolian in my lap
i'd put my bottleneck slide on my left hand little finger
i'd put a thumbpick on my right thumb
i'd put a fingerpick on my right first finger
i'd then play blind willie johnson's dark was the night
s.
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Steve Senderoff & Trish Vierling
"...Ya run your E string down oh, I don't know, about three
frets...anyway,
it corresponds to the third note on the A string...here's ya tuning..."
.........Tommy Jarrell
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"Lyle Lofgren" <lylelofgren@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> (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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