--- You wrote: "comin thro' the rye". I can't remember who wrote it or if it was just an Irish? folk song. As far as copyrights go I think the lyrics are public domain but am by no means 100%. --- end of quoted material --- It's a poem by Robert Burns, right? At least, that's what Holden and Phoebe agree on when they are talking in her bedroom after he has sneaked into the apartment. In which case, since Burns is long dead, the words are public domain. I think. I don't know the exact chapter, but flip through the book until you find Holden and Phoebe talking in her bedroom. I remember that part as being about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way through the book. Bethany