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zguitar, may your pretty Yamaha bring you much happy.
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I enjoy two or three beers to put my brain in party mode when I play gigs. More than that bogs me down.
Normally, coffee and iced tea are the only stimulants I inbibe. Drunks and stoners find me to be dull company.

It's a C chord with a G in it and it sounds great sometimes when you alternate from C (with the added G) to G.
If you use your pinky on the first string 3rd fret for both chords it is a quick change and an extra fat sound. Cool!
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Cool video and music, Russell. I hope that was your blonde lady dropping her duds for you.
I went to see "Avatar" last night.
First time I ever found myself rooting for the aliens to wipe out mankind.
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Good one, badeye.
Reminds me of:
Little Johnny's teacher told him to write a sentence with the words defeat, deduct and defense in it.
Johnny wrote:
De feet of de duck went over de fence first.

I have been trying to convince my lovely niece, Phaedra,who graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music as a operatic soprano vocalist and pianist to take up guitar. I bought her one when she was in school but she resisted learning to play it.
Piano is a vastly superior instrument if you have one handy but a guitar is so much more portable.
After singing and dancing at Busch Gardens in Virginia and a stint in some Broadway shows, she married and settled down to teaching and playing  piano/organ in church as well as choir directing.
Her private vocal teaching would be easier if she could play guitar since most private homes lack a piano.
She bought a nice Epiphone acoustic and I showed her how to restring it. She knows most basic chord shapes but I was able to show her some short cuts like the four-string Bb, making G with her pinky on the first string-3rd fret (quick change to C) and how to wrap her thumb around the neck to play the 6th string on a barre F.
I really like the way Ms. Phaedra turned out.
If she pursues guitar like she did piano, dance and vocal, she will be a killer player in no time.
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I have posted before, if you sing and play (and as little guitar as I play I had better sing) putting guitar and vocals through a P.A. can be the way to go.
A 200 watt, four channel Peavey driver with built-in spring reverb makes vocals sound nice and the tens and horns in the speaker cabinets easily handle my Gibson 330 through it's Korg A-4 effects pedal and Casey's djembe drum.
I can go through our 24 channel Mackie board with a vocal processor and six 300 watt self-powered J.B.L. EON speakers for large venues.
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Leon Redbone plays songs my mom and dad used to sing.

"Lazy Bones"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qROwjULKVj0

"Shine On Harvest Moon"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC5uyack … p;index=34

"Polly Wolly Doodle"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTMKvNsM … re=related

Hi rocketflyer,
I can't write out all words and chords because that would violate forum rules but I can get you pointed:
The intro is in A minor (Am)
The lyrics are written in the video. I usually write out all lyrics in big black print and then go back and jot down each chord in RED over the syllable of the word where the chord changes.
Verse 1. Over the word 'once', the chord is Am, over setting, 'E', over lost, 'G' over days, Am.
Same chords repeat over the second half of the verse.
There follows a bridge with: E over "those", Am over the second syllable of "firebrand", E over "try",C over "way and E over "my way"
Verse 2 changes are Am,G,E,Am
Another bridge with changes: C,G,E,Am,F,E,Dminor,Am,Dm,Am,Dm,Am
F major seventh and E.
Verse 3: Am,G,E,Am repeat AmG,E,Am
Another bridge: C,G,E,Am,F and E
Bridge: C,G,E,Am,F and E
Verse 4 - same as Verse 3.
Outro: C,G,E,Am,F

Henny Youngman wrote:
Those two are a fastidious couple.
She's fast and he's hideous.

Barring all six strings, even on an electric guitar will give you a cramp right in the center of your palm sooner or later. If your hands are not super tiny, you can make a "cheater" F configuration and bring your palm right up to the back of the neck and curl you thumb over the top to mash the sixth string. If you can learn this you will have relief from cramping.
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