• From: Hendersonville, NC USA
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
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Topic: I Played You a Song

I stumbled upon a song that I first heard many years ago that my wife had on a tape of music from here home. The chords were simple enough so I played the music even though I could not sing the words which were in Japanese. She said the music sounded familiar to her but without the singing she never would have remembered so I played her this youtube video of the song and she remembered. I could see the memories flooding back to her from music she listened to when she was a teenager and that gave me the idea of the song. Here is the youtube of the song she listened to, Koibito Yo - by Mayumi Itsuwa (a very popular and talented singersongwriter in Japan): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEtoRGBN … re=related
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I Played You a Song By Jeff Gilpin


September 29, 2011


Intro


[Dm6] [Am7]


Verse 1


[Dm6]I played you a song


[Am7]From your days gone by


[Dm6]In an instant the room was gone


[Am7]With a distant look in your eye


[Em7]Gone the mother of a mother


[CMaj7]Gone the passage of time


[Em7]Gone were the years of living


[G]Erased by the music and the [Am7]rhyme




Verse 2


[Dm6]There sitting before me


Was the [Am7]woman child from years ago


[Dm6]Reliving some lost memories



As I [Am7]basked there in your glow


[Em7]Before you ever set eyes upon me


[CMaj7]Before you even left home


[Em7]Before you felt your wanderlust


[G]That started you to [Am7]roam




Verse 3


[Dm6]I interrupted your reverie


Asked a [Am7]question I’m not sure why


And [Dm6]back you came in an instant


From your [Am7]trip to days gone by


I could [Em7]tell you had a pleasant trip


To those [CMaj7]places you left behind


Not [Em7]sadness but fond memories


[G]Of your earlier [Am7]times



J  E  T  S
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  • From: derbyshire
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Re: I Played You a Song

hi jeff have you translated it from the japanese song,good job done.....stay cool

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  • From: Hendersonville, NC USA
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Re: I Played You a Song

Hey Robert - The translation of Koibito Yo into english was too difficult to turn into a song, at least for me and it's a really sad song. It's about divorce and the woman trying to meet with her ex husband. She's sitting on a bench in a park waiting for him to try and work it out, but no one comes. It's sad but also a very pretty song to listen to and I think Mayumi Itsuwa could sing the phone book and it would sound great. I tried to find some of here songs on iTunes but nothing was there. She has a ton all over youtube though....She's a great singersongwriter in my opinion.

J  E  T  S
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  • From: Almancil, Algarve, Portugal
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Re: I Played You a Song

Interesting chord sequence Jeff which worked very well finger picked for me but very probably completely different to how you will record it (please smile).

Roger

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  • From: Hendersonville, NC USA
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Re: I Played You a Song

Thanks Roger - I just slip the Dm6 with an open low E over a string to become Am7 if you catch my meaning. My plan is to record some this weekend. My wife is going on a golf outing this weekend so I get some free time. Plus my daughter's freed up my recording studio, aka basement.

J  E  T  S
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