The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116161   Message #2492321
Posted By: Amos
12-Nov-08 - 08:15 PM
Thread Name: If a Song Moves You....
Subject: RE: If a Song Moves You....
Yeah, I've been there--oddly enough with one I wrote for my mother in law. I just had to drill through it until the reaction smoothed out.

I stood up to sing Finnegan's Wake at my own mother's funeral, because it was one of her favorite songs, and I was so broke up I left out a whole verse and got snot all over my guitar, God's truth...but I pummeled my way through the song anyway. It's what she would have wanted. But it wasn't the song that was getting to me, that time.



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