An excerpt from my memoir "THE CLOSEST THING TO CRAZY" - " I don’t know what it was about my songs that so much attracted Prince, but to be doing two of mine on stage was a great surprise that gave me an enormous psychological boost. More heady, still, was the day when he called me up at home. “Hey man, I love your song “If You Were A Sailboat” but it’s got girl-centric lyrics. Can I change a cuppla words, would that be OK?” He was ultra laid back but very polite and I was impressed by his courtesy, because most artists would just change the words and not tell you. He wanted to change the line” If you were a cowboy I would trail you” to “If you were a gypsy I would trail you”. That was it. Of course I agreed, I was delighted. About a week later his office sent me an mp3 of the track. It sounded fantastic. He’d made the lyric changes and added a really cool beat to it. What I didn’t notice in my excitement, was that he’d snuck another word change in. Where I had written “If you were a preacher I’d begin to change my ways” he’d substituted “If you were a witness I’d begin to change my ways”. I’d forgotten he was a Jehovah’s Witness. Anyway it didn’t bother me when I noticed it." mikebatt.com/store/p/signed-…