So if you've been riding along with me on this blog thing, you know how my mind sometimes wanders off and starts wonderin'. I have thoughts. I have questions. Most of the time my thoughts aren't very deep. This one isn't either. I know you'll still be as fascinated as you've always been while reading my blogs.
Right?
Remember when I bought my ukulele, Tilly, in early January 2020?
Well I've been really enjoying her. We've become besties. She has challenged me in many ways. Mostly my fingers which periodically rebel.
I've had so much fun looking for songs to play and sing. Some came rather easy to me and others proved to stretch my patience beyond what I was willing to tolerate.
I didn't throw those away. They're in a pile marked "try later when you grow up."
Right now I'm working on a Bob Dylan song - "Don't Think Twice." That's going well. There was a chord change in it that my fingers didn't like so I just decided to leave it out. Much better. I didn't realize I could do that when I first started. I felt I had to include every single chord come "hell or high water."
I'm more comfortable now.
The other song I recently fell in love with is the Beatles tune "When I'm 64." Timing was an issue with this one but I think I'm finally over that hump.
Then I started paying attention to the lyrics. My favorite part of the song is:
Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear. We shall scrimp and save. Grandchildren on your knee, Vera, Chuck and Dave.
I started wondering who came up with the names. Was it John or Paul? Were the names picked at random? Poetically Dave was a gimme because it had to rhyme with save.
But Vera and Chuck. An aunt, a cousin, the boy next door, a favorite waiter or waitress? Or random because it fit the song?
One wonders, doesn't one?
