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Location: Colorado | I'm putting a project together - I need songs that are about playing guitar - or at least reference playing a guitar in the song. Harry Chapin's Six String Orchestra - and John Denver's This Old Guitar come to mind. What else is out there? Heavens - I might even have to pull the guitar out and play a song or two! Somewhere out there there's a country song "I sure Guitar'd of her"! |
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Location: Gardnerville, NV | While My Guitar Gently Weeps |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | 2 of those three popped into my head. |
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Location: NJ | There's an old song by Batdorf & Rodney called "Me & My Guitar.
GoodLuck FINDING it, tho . . .
Harrison also did somewhat of a follow-up entitled "This Guitar Can't Keep From Crying". |
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Location: PDX | John Hartford -- "My Rag"
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Location: closely held secret | Tonight I Just Need My Guitar - Jimmy Buffett
Guitar Man - Bread
Perfectly Good Guitar - John Hiatt
Guitarzan - Ray Stevens
Juke Box Hero - Foreigner
Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar - Frank Zappa |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Does this qualify???
(ignore the sexy lady and hear the lyrics)...Yeah, right! |
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Location: Jet City | My all time favorite...
The Discovery - 2112 - Rush
That UK II of mine has sure played it's share of Lifeson tunes.
Speaking of which, I think I remember him onstage with an Adamas or Ovation back in the day. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Guitars, Cadillacs, & Hillbilly Music ...Dwight Yokum.
Guitar Boogie |
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | All good suggestions...David Wilcox has a song called "Guitar Shopping", From "What YOu Whispered"...
"There's a guitar here in the window
I'd like to play before its sold
Its such a classic, mint condition
Great shape for one this old
Now all these axes have their stories
Of the gigs that they have seen
But when this one sold the first time
I was seventeen
'Course back then I didn't want it
it was way too new for me
I needed something old and righteous
with its own authority
So the first guitar I ever bought
Was twice as old as me
Cause its life was full of music
As I dreamed that mine might be
And I played that thing a thousand nights
And traded it away
For something slightly newer
That was easier to play
But now lately I buy new guitars,
They're shiny as a hearse
I still like the look of road wear,
But the roles have been reversed
And now this thing is a classic
But I still don't need to buy
Yeah the old ones have their stories
But by now, so do I"
Great song by my favorite singer songwriter... |
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | Oh, also "Tonight's the Night" by Neil YOung;
"Bruce Barry was a workin' man, he used to load that Econoline van
A sparkle was in his eye, but his life was in his hands
Late at night when the people were gone he used to pick up my guitar
And sing a song in a shaky voice that was real as the day is long
Tonight's the night... |
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Location: NJ | Bruce Berry. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Brad Davis has a tune called "I love my guitar"
My new one for Jan 30 might work. The subject is addiction. I'll see if I can post it here by some sort of computer magic. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ".... and old guitar is all he can afford"
- "Sultans Of Swing" |
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Location: Tennessee | Guitar Town - Steve Earle
Play Guitar - John Mellencamp
Shooting Star - Bad Company |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The first little part is real slow and then it picks up from there.
The 12 Frets of GAS by Bill Kaman Jan 17, 2008
I’ve got(D) an addiction(G) All(D) my life it seems(A)
And(Bm) it controls my waking(G) hours
And at night(D), it’s always there(A), in my dreams(D)
(ch)I love guitars(G) There it’s said(D)
Natural(F#), Sunburst(F#7) and Red(G) (D)
Cause I just can’t get enough(A)
I keep on buying them up(G)
I guess it’ll be that way till I’m dead(D)
An old Martin(D) is a thing of beauty(G)
But old Gibsons(D) sometimes can sound thin(A)
Rickenbackers(Bm) are hard to play, I(G) went and bought one anyway
I had(D) to sound like Petty(A) and McGuinn(D)
I got some strats to be like Clapton
Les Pauls, so I could play the blues
Takamine and Kalamazoo, National and Oahu
There’s so many, and it’s always hard to choose
ch
My basses are 4, 5, or 6 string
My guitars all are 6 and 12
Mandolins are cute and small, but I can’t play them at all
That’s why there’s only three hanging on the wall
For Jazz I need big fat archtops
And country I need that Tele sound
The Ovation sound is getting round, hope Fender don’t put it in the ground
I worked too hard to make it world renowned
ch
(BR) (Asus4)Now it’s not so bad, I can’t make, (A7)Choices on my own
(Bsus4)This Jones is strong, But I still got, (B7)Standards don’t you know
(G)I may have bought a lot of things, (A)But never a banjo!
(break, 1 verse)
When I die bury me in a hard shell case
It’s time to go visit all the stars
Got a gig up in the sky, maybe I can play some slide
And run the Heaven Store that sells Guitars.
Ch. |
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Location: Tennessee | Nice. A catchy beat and you can dance to it. I give it a 9.5. You forgot the Hamers. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Romantic and " Dancy "..
"Ten guitars" Engelbert Humperdinck
I have a band of men and all they do is play for me
They come from miles around to hear them play a melody
Beneath the stars, my ten guitars will play a song for you
And if you're with the one you love, this is what you do
Oh dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
And very soon you'll know just where you are
Through the eyes of love you'll see a thousand stars
When you dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
Guitars are made for love, my band of men will always say
So give them all a pretty girl and they will start to play
Beneath the stars, my ten guitars will play a song for you
And if you're with the one you love, this is what you do
Oh dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
And very soon you'll know just where you are
Through the eyes of love you'll see a thousand stars
When you dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
Let me tell you now
Dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
Come on everybody
Dance, dance, dance to my ten guitars
took a while to type..and found the whole thing..it`s not that hard.. :)
http://folksong.org.nz/tenguitars/lyrics.html
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah Bobbo, I for got a bunch of brands. I got some time, it will take a few more rewrites. Not sure even the title makes it, since there are no steps described.... |
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Location: Jet City | CWK2 - Recordings?? |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Wow !!..Great Song Beal..( take my hat of for ya`..)
Vic |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I just finished it this afternoon!
I gotta get a recorder.......
and then someone to show me how to work it....
CLIFF!!!!!! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | "Won't Get Fooled Again" - The Who
"Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffet |
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Location: Colorado | Hey Beal...remember GAS works for Wind too. |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | "6 String Music"
"Blue Guitar"
Jimmy Buffet |
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