Well, I get to cross something off the list - I've sung at Carnegie Hall! Now, how many of you out there can say that? Granted, I wasn't on the stage, just in my seat but still !!! By now you surely must have figured out that I was actually watching Pete Seeger & Grandson Tao & Arlo Guthrie & Family (three generations on stage - that's pretty cool, no?) but they get everyone to sing along and though I'm still froggy-throated and had a fear of a full-on coughing fit in the middle of the evening, Pete asked everyone to sing Amazing Grace and so how could I not? But one of the sweetest moments came from Arlo's daughter Sarah Lee, who sang an a cappella version of Woody Guthrie's Birds and Ships and so now I'm obsessed with that song - although the only recorded version has Natlaie Merchant and I'm not too fond of her, but it will have to do:

The birds are singing
In your eyes today
Sweet flowers blossom in your smile
The wind and sun
Are in the words you say
Where might your lonesome lover be?
Birds may be singing
In my eyes this day
Sweet flowers blossom when I smile
But my soul is stormy
And my heart blows wild
My sweetheart rides a ship on the sea
Though my soul is stormy
And my heart blows wild
Where might my lonesome lover be?

Another beautiful song she sung was written by her husband - also on stage singing and on guitar - called When the Lilacs are In Bloom - you can listen to that here should your interest be piqued: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqHkX2lutUA

In short: a lovely evening, lovely people singing lovely songs and at the end of it, I felt - lovely :-)