Now that tune is embarrassing to most guys now. You know, it's too high. But in those days those guys loved that, because they could show off. And, they would have called the words, the song, and what they sang it to was the tune. And popular music in those days was based on the principal of mix and match. There were eighty different sets of words, of songs, written to be sung to that tune, and any one of those eighty would work. And so, a real guy was one who knew a lot of tunes, and knew a lot of songs, and could combine them in ways that would make the other guys say, "Oh, cool, man! Let me hear that again. Awesome! I want to learn that!"

And, it 's spontaneous, it's part of what guys do. We just don't do that much anymore. One of my favorite examples is...see...this idea of singing being a man's stuff, a man's thing, lasted through the nineteenth century. In 1876 in Lincoln, Montana, there was a Fourth of July celebration that featured a glee club contest and five men's glee clubs took part. There are singers in Lincoln now, but do you suppose you could put together a competition of five men's glee clubs from that neighborhood? But, these are the miners from around there, and they were all from--many from--the old country and that was their tradition to sing. And, it was show off, it was competition, it was what you did.