Thank you. I've had that happen before, believe it or not, with "The Palm Beach Pokey." What I learned from that experience is that there are some unscrupulous people out there who will try to take credit for something somebody else wrote and will try to make money off it. So if this song is passed along on the Internet, I can only ask that people will respect my rights as the author. That's why I included my name and copyright line, which should be included any time the song is passed around.
Pick out a site for a bigger church.
Well, two points:
1) I am not pastoring a parish right now. I'm in graduate school, working on a doctorate in Biblical Studies. But my family still does like to eat. :-)
2) "The Palm Beach Pokey" went all over the Internet, radio shows all across the country, FReeper rallies, etc. Do you know how much money I made off that song? Not one cent. There was even a group (the Splatter Sisters) that recorded it with my permission, but they didn't know how to market this kind of a song on a national scale so quickly, and so they didn't sell enough copies even to cover their production costs. My 15 minutes of fame didn't even bring me 15 cents of fortune.
I'm not complaining (well, sorta, I guess I am). I write these things for fun, and I hope others enjoy them. I don't look to make money off them. But I sure as heck don't want anyone else (whether radio hosts or recording artists) to be making money off my stuff without me!