Great words and story Jim. Can I make one suggestion? Last line 2nd verse; change "her heart was full of lies" to "her heart was all lies" it's closer to the metre.     

nice recording Jim, shame about the volume being low. are you using a pick to strum? you'd get a clearer sound from the guitar.     

thanks Jim, I'm happy to say you were first to see it, and that you helped me to up-load it, I didn't think a simple thing like writing a single B in square brackets would throw the whole thing into a tizzy!
My grandmother actually helped me buy my second guitar (not my dad as in the song) my first broke within a few days !!! slight adjustments you understand also he never ran me around to gigs or pay for hotel rooms though he was a lorry driver so he knew all about driving up and down the motorways!
broken down vans, punctures and driving home in the heavy snow with no heating, are all true and as you say; people don't see the hours of rehearsal, scrimping for cash to buy equipment, hours driving to gigs, hours on stage then driving home again. drink and drugs were never on my to-do list, but I knew guys that did. 
ps; guess what chopro just did it again hence no brackets.     

I have a pal that does a lot of fingerpicking and country he is also an aficionado of Shadows music. So, just before Christmas he was out walking his dog and tripped over a curb and made a mess of his fingers. He is the proud owner of around a dozen or so guitars, sixers, twelvers acoustic and electric and a bass or two. He told me he wouldn't be able to play for at least a month! When his fingers healed he tried to get back in the saddle but found all his callouses had softened so playing was painful, in fact like starting over. I think he's getting there now and the last little jam we had he was OK but I didn't push him too much. Practise is essential whether your practising runs, riffs, scales or chords. I usually manage 10 minutes most days, it really tells when I lay off for any time.     

Thanks Jim. There seems to be a flaw in the chopro code, eg; if you write a B chord in square brackets chopro interprets it as a command to write in bold letters so it must be closed, eg: word   therefore if you want to put in B chord you must add Maj or 7th? [Gmaj] I will post the song again hopefully correctly. Fingers crossed.     Thanks for your help and putting me on the right track Jim aka tigljk

Lovely song Jim. It plays great too. I changed the chords a bit, adding an Em a Bm also an Am in the second part of the verses. If I get time next week I'll send it to you.

Phill     

thanks keepitreal for giving my little ditty a listen. hope you enjoyed it?     

I kinda sold out many years ago. I wanted to be in an original band playing rock music, but we never got many gigs. so the focus turned to playing pops, ballads and country songs, then sneaking in a few rockers towards the end when the punters are too inebriated to complain! that was the 70's, things have changed since. maybe it's my generation, late 60's, but all the acts i see these days are playing "don't stop believing" "human" both songs by that name, "another brick in the wall" etc, etc. they also love line dancing...anything but originals they talk through anything they've never heard before. i saw a guy in my local last week who charged £100 for the night, when he does his simply red tribute he charges £500....go figure, i didn't rate him for the £100. if you come to the UK you'll have to sing in english!     

True, but no one got beaten up just told what kind of cave man/woman they were.     

Hi Jim, I miss Bill too...BIG TIME! I'm hoping he's well.

I saw someone on the infernal net made a comment about even modern pop songs using the old C-Am-F-G chord sequence, almost all songs from the 50's had this riff. and their still using it today, old habits die hard?

I don't actually understand the fahrenheit scale any more since we went all European, maybe they'll change it back now we've left. Graham and I both agree that it was a big mistake we'll all have to pay for.

Keep warm my friend