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Play Guitar


Scott Whitby, 2020


Always wanted to play

My fingers are not so fat

Strings on a piece of wood

Why couldn't I do that?


Bought a black guitar

Too cheap it turned out to be

It didn't play too good

So I sold it to Jordan for free


Mahogany Alvarez

Same as the Grateful Dead's

But I had the same problem

Which fingers on which frets?


I knew what I needed

Took lessons from a Master

This doesn't make any sense

Why couldn't I learn it faster?


I saw Andy play one time

Thought he was just like me

I was wrong again

He was a prodigy


Finally learned the C chord

And the G was such a treasure

But why does the D chord

Have fingers so close together?


Everything I've ever done

With what effort I had to spare

Problems I always conquered

But this guitar it just don't care!


Now Jordan plays the songs

Like Tyler Childers can

On that stupid old black guitar

That was never the plan


And Andy plays for the people

It seems with such ease

Night Moves is all I want to play

Could somebody show me please?


I think it's this Mahogany Alvarez

It don't know what to do

I'll get me a Martin Dreadnought

Then I'll play like all of you!

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