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What Good Is This Old Guitar?

from Jesus & The Moon by Simon Scardanelli

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A love song to a guitar I bought in Munich, Germany in 1972, and that is still going strong.

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What Good Is This Old Guitar?

What good is this old guitar?
that I’ve dragged from city to city
carried around with me
that can’t settle down with me
oh no.

yeah what good is this old piece of wood to me?
that suffers my angry blows
or soft tender love never knows
when fingers bleed
on ebony

yeah what good is this old guitar
won’t somebody tell me
it’s done nothing but sell me
songs that I bring
to a world that can’t sing
in my key

CHORUS
and though we don’t have much to show for this life just a few crazy songs
I would be sad to lose my trusted old friend.

well I found you in ’72
and I should have known better then
to tie myself down so young
give up my freedom unsung
hitched to a runaway
bride

You promised me nothing it’s true
but I pledged you my honesty
my world-weary poetry
you humoured me
placated me

so what good is this old guitar?
that I’ve carried around with me
sat at home painfully
re-arranging the facts
just to cover my tracks in a song

What good is this old guitar?
Now that I’m turning grey
Do we still have some songs to play?
but in an easier key
don’t be so hard on me
and we don’t have much to show for this life just a few crazy songs...

© 2014 Simon Scardanelli/Musica Scardanelli

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from Jesus & The Moon, released September 13, 2016

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Simon Scardanelli Merléac, France

Simon Scardanelli is an English singer, songwriter & composer now based in Central Brittany, France.

Currently working on his next album - a folk-opera which he will launch in early 2023.

A great live performer who has toured extensively, available for solo acoustic & amplified concerts as well as in trio with accordion & percussion..
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