Another traffic jam tune. However, this was a much worse traffic jam than the one that spawned "A Mile to the Ship", and I actually managed to write the entire tune while I sat on M-14. The first part was written on the Susato C that is always in my car, the second part on my Water Weasel Bb, which I got out from my backpack when I realized I was going to be sitting there a while. I started with the opening phrase of "Boys of the Lough" and "Sunny Banks" and then tried to go in a completely different direction.

The name, then, is a literal description of the circumstances of the tune's birth, on the way to visit my parents in East China Township, Michigan. On the other hand, it's a happy little tune, so perhaps it will find another name.

Steph suggests playing it with a pair of tunes called Charlie Harris's in Toronto, BTW. I've got to work on learning them... (Never did. -- Sol 2025)

(Was messing around with this tune March 2025, and the Shannon Heaton that lives in my head rose up and objected that the final bar of the tune was dubious. Thus I've changed the third eighth note of the last bar from an A to a D.)