My Father's Guitar
Plays his father's guitar and says the songs were already inside it
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 96
- key
- C major
- energy
- 0.73
- dance
- 0.89
- valence
- 0.48
- vocal at
- 6.5s
- length
- 3:48
- language
- En
lyrics
(instrumental, warm) Forty-two years he played it and never made a record Not once, not for anybody, not even for the family "The songs are in the guitar," he said, "not in me" (not in me) I thought that was humility. It was a technical statement. When he died I took it down (took it down) And it played things I had not been taught My father's guitar (my father's) He was right, the songs were never in the man My father's guitar I am just the one holding it now My son wants an electric one, a red one, with a cable He thinks this thing is a piece of furniture with strings He is nineteen. He is exactly right and exactly wrong. (exactly wrong) I have hidden nothing from him. It is on the wall. He'll see. (solo palm wine guitar, 8 bars) Papa, e still dey work. E still dey work well. (HORNS RETURN, WARM) My father's guitar (my father's) He was right, the songs were never in the man My father's guitar I am just the one holding it now (my father's...)