Good to know you practice regularly. The more you practice the harder your finger tips will become. You may find that squeezing a soft ball will strengthen your fingers, hand and wrist.
Welcome to chordie forum.     

Congratulations Jim. I've been on the scrap heap for six years now and I can tell you unreservedly...until you make time for what you want to do, your time will be taken up doing the mundane stuff everyone expects you to do. Like baby sitting, taking the wife shopping, all the DIY stuff that's been waiting all these years and most importantly...sleeping in your favourite arm chair. Other than that your time is your own, have fun and as Graham said welcome to the club.     

Thanks guys, it's nice to be appreciated. We can all work together, Jeff, we used to do a lot of Chordians projects a few years ago. No reason not to do that again?     

you sure can write the laid back songs. I can imagine you reclining in your hammock on a sunny day picking away and singing back at the yard birds     

Pete. Me too. During the 60's, my teenage years, being a hippy was a trend, we all wore kaftans and beads and patchouli! We weren't real hippies, just the weekend variety.
The girl in the song arrived late 70's and lived in a commune. It was my car she used and abused as well as my body and I hers...those were the days!
I haven't seen her since or her friend, least said about that the better, nudge nudge!

Brian. Recording is a work in progress. I know a lot of members don't like multi tracking and productions, but that is my enjoyment and pleasure. Let you know when it's done.     

Take the Beatles...Love me do; 2.19 mins. Hey Jude...7.00 mins + .Hey Jude no 1, Love me do barely made the top 20! Fact is if you like a record you'll buy it or listen to it. Songs with a load of fillers at the end as in Hey Jude annoy me no end. If a song gives a story to the last chord...great, even though I love the song Hotel California with it's extended solo's at the end get me yawning. When I do it I just do 2 verses of solo then end with the chorus so the audience doesn't get bored. Disco songs are rife with fillers, I've never liked disco much.     

Forgetting words, lines or complete verses? I've so been there. I've repeated the same verse three times before now. Worst thing is; you make a cock up, then next night you stress about it and do it again! I saw an act recently when their iPad conked out and delayed starting for half an hour while her husband brought a spare from 20 miles away. Learn the words, saves a lot of embarrassment.     

I knew that was a wind up but I compared them anyway. Both hands matched!     

Most of the songs I know and play I learnt decades ago. New songs seem to go in one eye and out the other! It helps if you can make up words as your playing, I used to do that a lot back in the day! I can only remember snippets of my own songs. If I try out new song in the future I'll give Grahams idea a go and read from song sheets. Memory full?

Hi Jeff. I couldn't get it to play probably something to do with my tablet, not the ones you swallow! I'll try again tomorrow so don't take it down please. I love a love song and unlike the songs from the fifties and sixties where they cut out the best bits of a song to make it under two and a half minutes so the radio DJs would play them, a song of three minutes is perfectly acceptable, in fact I aim for three minutes or more. Give the whole story.     

Not a problem Jim. I get great enjoyment from doing a production on other people's work. I was sorely tempted to put bass and drums on it and probably other things too! Ann doesn't sing, won't sing on tape if you get my meaning?
I've done a few things with Peatle and Easybeat, so I do get great enjoyment from working on others projects and hope I can work with them and others in the future.     

I got the impression that the boy/girl were getting back together? Even with break up songs I like a happy ending!