I Wanna Be a Guitar Man
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This song came to me in a dream (in the dream, it was a classic R&B tune). Therefore: don't laugh at me, laugh at the song-fairies. (It might actually be a song I heard once and I just don't recognize it... but the only way to find out is to record it so a zillion other people can hear it.)
It's kind of like a 1-4-5 blues except it skips the 4 and goes straight to 5. Go figure.
Needs a female vocal with the energy of Aretha Franklin but maybe a little huskier.
- My mama asked
- Who I wanna be
- And I said Mama,
- Can't you see
- I wannna be
- a guitar man.
- Well my papa said
- "No daughter o' mine
- Gonna do anything
- Of that kind!:
- I wanna be
- a guitar man.
- I took my money
- To the guitar store
- But the sign said "honey,
- we are closed for sure"
- I wanna be
- a guitar man.
- Went to the bar
- To play my licks
- Barman said "what's a girl like you
- "doin' in a place like this?"
- I wanna be
- a guitar man.
Needs more verses. There should be a bridge that goes something like D-D-D-D-D-D-Eb-C... the pattern seems to want to be broken up with completely different bits every now and then. And then the climax will be a guitar solo that stays in one key longer than expected.