Whew!

The site was experiencing turmoil and I almost couldn’t post this amazing revelation – I have way too much music in my paper library.

Beginning the move of music books and papers from my piano room, I am sifting through years of acquired tastes: Old sheet music from the 70’s, music from the 40’s and 50’s which my mother bought because she wanted those tunes, church accompaniment books, antique pieces my father got at auctions in the bottom of boxes no one wanted, musical scores from Broadway plays, old voice lesson pieces, Christmas music for every instrument including sing-along books, the “Tipsy Trio” binders. I’m going to be ruthless and maybe even organize it in the process.

The theme for this actually popped into my head yesterday at 6:30 am. I awoke singing, “Over hill, over dale, as we hit the dusty trail and those caissons go rolling along.” Seriously? That in my head? I knew it was merely inspiration because the first book I opened to see if I should keep it was “Tom Glazer’s Treasury of Folk Songs.” And which song did the book open to? The Caisson Song. I am not kidding.

Some of my music will be rollin’ along.