"Mike Connor" wrote in message
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Why Paddy's Not at Work Today (Excuse Note)
(Pat Cooksey)

Dear Sir I write this note to inform you of my plight
And at the time of writing I am not a pretty sight
My body is all black and blue, my face a deathly gray
I write this note to tell why Paddy's not at work today

Great song snipped...

A songwriter and musician--Mike Cross-- from right hear in Lenoir, NC put
those words to song on one of his albums.

I think that you would really like his music. http://www.mikecross.com/

"Everything about Cross and his music is one cut above fantasy; his show,
his music, his beginning as a musician. "The gist of it is, I got sick in a
snowstorm during my junior year in college and ended up spending the night
in a friend's dormitory room," as Cross tells it. "It turned out his
roommate played the guitar." That roommate spent the next two days teaching
Cross his first chords and songs.
Now, over 20 years later, he still plays guitar - and fiddle as well -
traveling coast-to-coast delighting audiences with 12-string bottleneck
blues, fiery Irish jigs and a wealth of his own music and stories filled
with backwoods humor characteristic of a Mark Twain or Will Rogers."
http://www.mikecross.com/bio.asp

I've seen him half a dozen times since the mid 1970s. Last saw him perform
at the MerleFest in 1999. http://www.merlefest.org/

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