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It changes given my mood the day and whatever else.  Here are my five of the moment.  This could be different by noon, or it could be the same again five years from now with a million variations in between now and then.

1. Blue Skies - Willie Nelson and Booker T version
2. Unchained - Johnny Cash
3. Featherbed - John McCutcheon (I sing it every night as a lullaby so it's stuck in my head)
4. Don't Blink - Kenny Chesney  (Yeah, I know it only pretends at being deep and is actually typical barber shop advice fodder you could hear six times from any old men who walk in the door any given Saturday morning, but it's a lot of fun to play and just because it's frequent advice doesn't mean it isn't good advice)
5. Three Little Birds - Bob Marley

I'm sorry for being the delay on keeping this moving.  The weather has caused me serious delays in getting to the post office, and they've been closed anyway even if I could have gotten in.  We're all going a little stir crazy here.  The only places I've been in the past week or so have been the grocery store and a funeral home. 

I will not be the end of this very cool progress, but I may be a bit of a delay because it's not looking like we'll be getting anywhere tomorrow either.  The drifts are just nuts.  I've never seen anything like it. 

- Zurf

This is going great!  Keep it up everyone.  I don't know how to play Chicago Blues on my guitar, just on my bass.  So this is going to quickly become a Country/Folk song - but I am absolutely loving this collaboration! 

How about this - we work out a few more verses and maybe a bridge and a chorus and I will record this and take Detman 101 up on his offer to post a song for me as my "coming out of the closet" playing and singing post. 

It'll take me some time to polish and get the meter and approach consistent between it, but I am absolutely loving what y'all are coming up with.  And it's making me feel a bit better, too. 

No telling how far that long-haired Zimmerman kid might have gotten if he had Chordie to help him along. 

- Zurf

p.s.  Or shoot - we've already got more verses than most Country songs these days.  I'll just repeat one of them six or eight times in a dramatic voice if things get tight.

Start work at dawn, work until night
Working for the man til you get a fright
Realize it'll never stop and no end in sight
Someday never comes.  Someday really bites.

- Zurf

I grew up doing that in Pennsylvania.  It's one of the reasons I moved to Virginia.   

- Zurf

Excellent advice fish24!

If you've never read it "Endurance" is one heck of a good read.  It's like an action fiction, but it's the true story of Shackleton's adventure to Antarctica.  There's dogs, and stowaways, and impossible odds, and impossible feats, and a happy ending.  If you know anything about boats, this will amaze you: They sailed across the Southern Ocean - from a receding ice floe broke off from the mainland of Antarctica to a small whale fishing village on a flyspeck of an island - something like a thousand miles of the roughest and coldest seas the world knows in and amongst ice floes that could crush them in minutes and they did it in a 23' open boat with an amateur navigator literally learning the craft from an instructional book while they were underway and using only a compass and astrolabe.  The boat HAD been crushed and was salvaged, repaired, and slightly modified just before they left.  An astounding feat!  They took turns on captaining the vessel and literally used the non-sailing bodies as live ballast scrambling side to side and front to back belowdecks because the seas were so rough and the winds so unpredictable that the rock ballast they had couldn't be moved fast enough to compensate.

That said, I sure would like a taste.