[Harp-L] Tunes that I Perform

["Harmonicology [Neil Ashby]" <harmonicology@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I usually play popular tunes in the 1st and 2nd position i.e. "Smile", "King of the Road", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover", "Amazing Grace", et cetera. Those are tunes that the public enjoys around Harvard Square in Cambridge MA.

As for the comments pertaining to my use of that old Negro dialect then I would suggest that many expressions in the common vernacular are traceable back to misusage; the country of Norway was likely so named because of sailors (often drunk and near toothless) mispronouncing of "North Way" as "Nor'way". Also in sailing then the "gunnel" [gunwale] was likely the corruption of "gun wall". There are thousands of such examples.

Corruption of language via misusage is exactly the way the common vernacular developed and there is no reason for the explanation to become detached from its roots because of hysterical claims of "racism".

/Neil (" http://thebuskingproject.com/busker/2025/ ")