King of the Road
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A new friend and I were putting together a public storytelling event, and our subject was COINCIDENCE. We decided we wanted to have live music as people were gathering, so I contacted a friend who is a guitarist for that job. One day I got the idea that it would be fun for the guy singing with him to sing the old song by Roger Miller, King of the Road, so I found a You Tube of the song and sent it to the guitarist asking him if he knew it. He said he did and would have the singer learn it.
On a whim, I decided to send the You Tube on to the new friend with whom I was creating the event, telling him I had requested this song which he might not know (he is in his 20s) so I wanted to introduce it to him. His response to that was this: Oh my God, I cannot believe you sent me that song! One month ago I had never heard of this man or this song, but just this morning I listened to the greatest hits album of Roger Miller, have been singing this song all day, was picking it out on the piano last night, and was wondering where this great song had been all my life!
Date submitted:Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:56:51 +0000Coincidence ID:7554
