If the audiences ask for it after that I know that I should restore it to its place, and I do.
I do not write all my own songs, but I have a great deal to do with the making of all of them.

It's not once in a blue moon that I get a song that I can sing exactly as it was first written.

That doesna mean it's no a good song it may mean that I'm no just the man tae sing it the way the author intended.

I've my ain ways of acting and singing, and unless I feel richt and hamely wi' a song I canna do it justice.
Sae it's no reflection on an author if I want to change his song about.
I keep in touch with several song writers--Grafton, J.D.Harper and several others.

So well do they understand the way I like to do that they usually send me their first rough sketch of a song--the song the way it's born in their minds, before they put it into shape at all.
They just give an outline of the words, and that gives me a notion of the story I'll have to be acting out to sing the song.
If I just sang songs, you see, it would be easy enough.