Hi Clyde,

I'm sure I've listened to this one your yours at least 50 times doing various tests. It would be a memorable melody in my ear, even if I had not heard it so many times. It's one of my favorite of your pieces.

The melody is very catchy. I've never been able to analyze why some melodies seem so much better than others. If I could, I'd be able to write better melodies myself.

I'm interested in how the melody was written. Did BIAB take a first shot at the melody? Then, at a minimum, you had to fix up the rhythms to fit your lyrics, right? Did you change the pitches in the melody to be more to your liking? How much did the lyrics dictate the melody? And the other way, how much did you change the lrycis to fit the melody?

This is a very well-constructed piece harmonically, melodically, and structurally, IMHO.

Cheers
-- Mark