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Thread #30961 Message #1271121
Posted By: GUEST,sandy
13-Sep-04 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: John Hartford songs
Subject: Lyr Add: FALSE-HEARTED TENOR (John Hartford)
FALSE-HEARTED TENOR My False-Hearted Tenor, falsetto so high I watch all your dobros as they slide on by. My person is lonely I think it's because My voice is not high and real thin like a saw What would really be slick now if I learned how to sing But they tell me to pick now 'cause that is my thing
It's genu-un-settle (wrong words) a voice without heart I'm out in the meadow and I can't find my part Just because I quit smoking and sit on a stool and sing all them love songs like any dam fool Remember the tenor when we render this waltz I pick on a Fender in a tenor that's false
In my highest falsetto I can't sing this high But I dam sure would like to and that's why I try My voice is as much as two pitches too low When I want to get high and get up like Munroe But me no soprano without any pause just a jug-throated croaker in a tenor that false
(Be careful when picking your key to play this in- you could get hurt. Any clues to the correct words in the beginning of verse 2?)