BLUE GUITAR
Johnny was a Whitby boy, well tattooed with attitude
Johnny used to play the blue guitar
Lived off Prospect Hill, his family they live there still
Used to play for drinks in the harbour bars.
Go Johnny go, let me hear your rhythms flow
You can take me down or raise me high
Play Johnny play, come on play your blues today
You can take me down or raise me high
Johnny started taking stuff, times were tough, couldn't get enough,
No longer played the harbour bars
His blue guitar just stands, longing for the magic hands
Of the man whose mind went somewhere east of Mars.
Go Johnny go, let me hear your rhythms flow
You can take me down or raise me high.
Play Johnny play, come on lift my mood today
You can take me down or raise me high.
How can it be someone as talented as he,
Could blow it all away
It's just insane to put that poison in your brain
And throw it all away
Passed his gravestone yesterday on it, the epitaph says
Johnny used to play the blue guitar.
If he was here today, everybody here would say
Come on Johnny play your blue guitar.
Come on Johnny play your blue guitar.
SEE AND HEAR ME SING THIS ON
YouTube. Louis Spence Blue Guitar. Thanks.
Copyright © Louis Spence | Year Posted 2015
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