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"Well, Penny, like anything worth writing, it came inexplicably and without method."

Emma Thompson as Karen Eiffel in Stranger Than Fiction

Sunday, 6 April 2014

"The Day My Guitar Fell In Love" (by Lindsey K and Jess S)

One of the few songs I've ever seen through to completion with both words and music - with (like all three songs this has ever happened with) our Linds. Copyright us!

Based on a true story...

The Day My Guitar Fell In Love
By Lindsey Kennedy and Jessica Spurrell


Intro
(finger-picking) D G D D

Chorus
(strumming) 
D                   G                     D    D-sus4  D  D-sus4
The day my guitar fell in love

D                   G                         A  F#m  G
The day my guitar ran away 


Verse
A                                      Bm
Sitting in a traffic jam on the motorway  

A                                                        F#m    G         D  D-sus4 G G  D D-sus4 G G
In the rear-view mirror the gui-tars be-gan to sway

A                                       Bm
As we turned a corner, I heard the twang of strings

A                                                             F#m         G             D  D-sus4 G G
Before you could say 'capo' the gui-tars were do-ing...things


Bridge
D                       D-sus4         G       G
Guitars being naughty - on the M-40


Chorus


Verse
Things got a bit exciting, they were bouncing up and down
We had to separate them every time I looked around

In knew it was a big mistake, taking it to France
Those french guitars were a bad...inf-lu-ance


Bridge
Guitars sont méchantes - dans le continent


Chorus


Verse (low key)
(slow down, finger-pick/rake)
A                                               Bm
If it had left me for a Strat, I would have understood

A                                                       F#m   G                    Dmaj7 Dmaj7-sus4 Gm Gm
But my guitar went and left me for a   Tang-lewood


Chorus (low key)
(finger-pick/rake)
Dmaj7          Gm                   Dmaj7    Dmaj7-sus4  Dmaj7  Dmaj7-sus4
The day my guitar fell in love

Dmaj7          Gm                         A  F#m  G (start to strum)
The day my guitar ran away 


Verse (original verse chords)
(building back to strumming by end of verse)
Now that cheap'n'cheerful-'s all covered up with dust
I play this Aria - 'cause it's monog-ymous


Chorus (final)
D                   G                     D    D-sus4  D  D-sus4
The day that I fell in love

D                   G                                     A  F#m  G
The day my guitar stayed with me


(repeat choruses as wish - possible room for solo) 

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