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Thread #17531 Message #3894452
Posted By: ketchdana
18-Dec-17 - 01:31 AM
Thread Name: Funniest Talking Blues Song
Subject: RE: Funniest Talking Blues Song
Don't know about funniest. More of a "so true", from the sixties.
Talking "FOLK GUITAR PLUS" Blues
Well, a lady on the TV screen named Laura Claimed she could teach me to play the guitar-a, Could do it, in fact, without much fuss If I'd watch her program, "Folk Guitar Plus". (plus banjo . . . plus recorder . . . not to mention the auto-harp.)
So I sent for the book, followed along, Played "Aunt Rhody", mostly wrong, But I kept right at it, day and night. Only took a month to get it right. (Life of the party now . . . If only someone would request Aunt Rhody.)
The songs and the pickin' gets complicated But I wait for each show with breath all bated, 'Cause just when I'm ready to give up tryin', She smiles and says "You're doin' fine." (A little more pressure there . . . That's goo-, uh, better.)
I'm learning to pick the syncopated strum And tie together chords, runs with the thumb. Even readin' that tablature, But my fingers are sore, that's for sure. (Look, Ma, hammerin' on . . . Now Ma, there's no call to say that.)
Someday I'll be a guitar player But folk guitarists are no longer rare. You meet them everywhere you go, 'Cause a million other people are watchin' that show. (Don't know any mor'n they do . . . Nor any less.)