great lyrics, great guitar, great song, whats not to love

Nice second part David, a soft flowing tune with some really nice playing, and your always homey, comfy vocals...

i enjoyed listening to your music 🎵 from start to finish.  It has such a nostalgic vibe to it and reminiscent of time gone yonder. very beautifully done.

Literally not one thing I didn't love about this song!!!

Thought maybe we had something     
 All set to play some shows
 And still we hear the drumming from fifty summers ago
 Why did you take the fall when you had the choice of any stage or hall
 Or anywhere you'd ever want to go? Maybe you're out there stirring
 Possibly still enduring the dark passenger spurring at your soul
 Where did you go fifty summers ago?

 You showed us how to listen, yours was the genius heart
 Unlocking glorious rhythm within the various parts
 Then you suddenly dropped your sticks 
 The guitarist forgot the way to play his licks
 The charts were tossed, the reels flicked
 The saxophone lost his place, put it back in its case
 The vocalist wept and sealed up her lips 
 And the mystery lives from fifty summers ago

 The years flew without message; in time, the trail grew cold
 Some gear went into storage, some of it was sold 
 We weren't that old fifty summers ago

 And now the tribe has gathered around the steaks and beer
 Our lives forever scattered - except this day of the year
 When no one repeats your name or thinks you might surface again
 From somewhere kept back in dusty archives of regret
 No one still thinks you're coming, nobody hears the drumming until
 One of us puts in the cassette 
 How can we forget those fifty summers ago?

Fifty Summers Ago

I love to make new songs with smooth organic sounds and vocal harmonies that remind me of favourite bands from the 1970's. If you like Paul Simon, Cat Stevens, America, Neil Young, and Nilsson, you might enjoy this music too.

These songs are fictional vignettes and stories. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

I facilitated worship in congregations for many years, and some songs here were written for that purpose. If you find a one you'd like to use, I would be happy to provide a chart.

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