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Lyrics Celebrating the Guitar (& playing it)
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dobro |
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Joined: January 2006 Posts: 2120 Location: Chicago | There is a tradition of sorts to sing about the guitar (or playing) in the lyrics. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Lucille" come to mind. There are many metaphors: axe, phallus, companion, woman, voice.... (Hendrix even made it a weapon!). Do you have a favorite lyric that features a guitar or playing one? | ||
paulramon1992 |
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Joined: May 2013 Posts: 20 | I like the lyric from Thunder Road "well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk." Just a cool lyric from a great song. | ||
Damon67 |
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Joined: December 2006 Posts: 6994 Location: Jet City | "I bought a guitar, I got the fever, that's rock and roll" - Shaun Cassidy Make all the fun you want, but that's how it went down for me. | ||
dobro |
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Joined: January 2006 Posts: 2120 Location: Chicago | Just remembered a fave of mine: Johnny Winter's version of CB classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doGij4HItlk | ||
CanterburyStrings |
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Joined: March 2008 Posts: 2683 Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I really love the original by James Taylor, but I thought some of you might enjoy hearing Tony Rice do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY6kPuz63ks | ||
dwg preacher |
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Joined: October 2012 Posts: 349 Location: Denver, CO | "People said son, you'll never get far on 37 dollars and a Jap guitar, but now I'm smokin' into Texas with the hammer dawn in a rockin' little combo from the guitar town." That count? Steve Earle Or how about John Hiatt, "Perfectly Good Guitar?" | ||
Waskel |
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Joined: February 2005 Posts: 11840 Location: closely held secret | I Bought A Flat Guitar Tutor I bought a flat Diminished responsibility You're de ninth person to see To be suspended in a seventh Major catastrophe It's a minor point but gee Augmented by the sharpness of your See what I'm going through Ay to be with you In a flat by the sea | ||
dobro |
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Joined: January 2006 Posts: 2120 Location: Chicago | Jerry Reed and Glenn Campbell get down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxv3DbXO4k | ||
DaveKell |
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Joined: November 2011 Posts: 741 Location: Fort Worth, TX | legend74 - 2013-05-27 4:38 PM Jerry Reed and Glenn Campbell get down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxv3DbXO4k I'd highly suggest selecting the Jim Stafford video at the end of this one playing a version of Classical Gas. I didn't know he had those chops. Hilarious as well as awesome. Thanks for posting this. I can't get enough of the Jerry/Glenn combo, those two guys are so in synch it's superhuman everytime! | ||
dobro |
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Joined: January 2006 Posts: 2120 Location: Chicago | Here's a beautiful INSTRUMENTAL version of a familiar tune. I guess the listener must supply the lyrics Stanley Jordan doing Bread's "GUITAR MAN".... really nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyjQ_U91yJE | ||
dvd |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 1889 Location: Central Massachusetts | Neil Young, "This Old Guitar": This old guitar ain't mine to keep It's mine to play for a while John Hiatt, "Perfectly Good Guitar": Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars Smashing a perfectly good guitar I don't know who they think they are Smashing a perfectly good guitar | ||
AstroDan |
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Joined: March 2010 Posts: 486 Location: Suisun City, Ca | Get a second-hand guitar Chances are you're going far If you can get in with the right bunch of fellas | ||
dvd |
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Joined: December 2003 Posts: 1889 Location: Central Massachusetts | "Riding with the King" -- BB King/Eric Clapton version: BB Speaking: I stepped out of Mississippi when I was ten years old With a suit cut sharp as a razor and a heart made of gold I had a guitar hanging just about waist high And I'm gonna play this thing until the day I die | ||
Mr. Ovation |
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Joined: December 2001 Posts: 7222 Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Hmm I have two favorite entire songs that celebrate the guitar.. The Marshall Plan - BOC And of course Juke Box Hero - Foreigner | ||
Designzilla |
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Joined: December 2004 Posts: 2150 Location: Orlando, FL | Let my guitar do the talking, Let my fingers do the walking. When my love comes knocking, let my guitar do the talking. Cause I mean what I say, and I play what I mean, Let my guitar do the talking. Let my guitar do the talking, by Guitar Shorty Edited by Designzilla 2013-06-01 8:16 AM | ||
DaveKell |
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Joined: November 2011 Posts: 741 Location: Fort Worth, TX | Well, I was passing by a pawn shop In an older part of town Something caught my eye And I stopped and turned around I stepped inside and there I spied In the middle of it all Was a beat up old guitar Hanging on the wall. What do you want for that piece of junk I asked the old man He just smiled and took it down and he put it in my hand He said you tell me what it's worth You're the one who wants it Turn it up, play a song And let's just see what haunts it So I hit a couple of cords In my old country way of strumming And then my fingers turned to lightning Man.. I never heard it coming It was like I always knew it I just don't know where I learned it It wasn't nothin' but the truth So I just reared back and burned it Well I lost all track of time There was nothing I couldn't pick Up and down the neck I never missed a lick The guitar almost played itself There was nothing I could do It was getting hard to tell Just who was playing who When I finally put it down I couldn't catch my breath My hands were shaking And I was scared to death The old man finally got up Said where in the Hell you been I've been waiting all these years For you to stumble in Then he took down an old dusty case Said go on and pack it up You don't owe me nothing And then he said good luck There was something spooky in his voice And something strange on his face When he shut the lid I saw my name was on the case Edited by DaveKell 2013-06-03 4:29 AM | ||
BanjoJ |
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Joined: September 2012 Posts: 811 Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | Stories We Could Tell Stared at that guitar in that museum in Tennessee Name plate on the glass brought back twenty melodies Scars upon the face told about all the times he fell Singin' all the stories he could tell Singin' every story he could tell And oh the stories it could tell And I bet you it still rings like a bell And I wish we could sit back on the bed in some motel And listen to the stories we could tell I think John Sebastian wrote it, but it has been covered by Dolly Parton, Del McCoury, Helen Reddy, Brenda Lee, Johnny Cash, Bobby Darin, Slade, Joe Cocker, The Everly Brothers, Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffett and Dan Crary | ||
SOBeach |
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Joined: April 2010 Posts: 823 Location: sitting at my computer | DaveKell - Well, I was passing by a pawn shop ... +1 The Guitar - Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fkGKTq6SIQ | ||
popcritic |
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Joined: December 2002 Posts: 584 Location: atlanta | Not exactly celebrating, but anyway: Electric guitar gets run over by a car on the highway This is a crime against the state This is the meaning of life. To tune this electric guitar An electric guitar is brought in to a court of law The judge and the jury (twelve members of the jury) All listening to records This is a crime against the state This is the verdict they reach: Never listen to electric guitar Electric guitar is copies, the copy sounds better Call this the law of justice, call this freedom and liberty I thought I perjure myself, right in front of the jury! Is this a crime against the state? no! This is the verdict they reach: Someone controls electric guitar. "ELECTRIC GUITAR" Songwriters: BYRNE, DAVID/HARRISON, JERRY | ||
Old Man Arthur |
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Joined: September 2006 Posts: 10777 Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Well, it's about a guitar Edited by Old Man Arthur 2013-06-03 4:10 PM | ||
dwg preacher |
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Joined: October 2012 Posts: 349 Location: Denver, CO | I get off on '57 Chevies. I get off on screamin' guitars. Like the way it gets me; Every time it hits me; I've got a rock 'n' roll, I've got a rock 'n' roll heart. | ||
xnoel |
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Joined: September 2003 Posts: 782 Location: Waurika OK | I bought me a guitar an put in tune, an I was rockin and Rollin soon. So far back in the past I can't remember what the song was? | ||
Mr. Ovation |
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Joined: December 2001 Posts: 7222 Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I almost forgot... my all time favorite get-the-crowd's attention tune... 157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon | ||
dwg preacher |
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Joined: October 2012 Posts: 349 Location: Denver, CO | Well I was sixteen and sick of school I didn't know what I wanted to do I bought a guitar I got the fever That's rock 'n' roll I played at parties Played in bars I spent my money buyin' new guitars I screamed my heart out But how I loved it That's rock 'n' roll Who remembers this one? | ||
Designzilla |
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Joined: December 2004 Posts: 2150 Location: Orlando, FL | There oughta be a law with no bail Smash a guitar and you go to jail With no chance for early parole You don't get out until you get some soul Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars Smashing a perfectly good guitar I don't know who they think they are Smashing a perfectly good guitar John Hiatt | ||
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