Guy Clark's latest album, "Somedays the Song Writes You," has a song titled "The Guitar" and the lyrics are certainly worth repeating here.

As he explains in the video below (shot at Austin's Cactus Club in February), Clark and Verlon Thompson wrote "The Guitar" as part of a songwriting seminar they held. It was forgotten for four years until someone from that seminar e-mailed Thompson the lyrics and they decided the song was worthy of being on an album.

------------------The Guitar-----------------
"Well, I was passing by a pawn shop in an older part of town
Something caught my eye and I stopped and turned around
I stepped inside and there I spied in the middle of it all
Was a beat up old guitar, hanging on the wall

What do you want for that peice of junk I asked the old man
He just smiled and took it down and he put it in my hand
Said, you tell me what it's worth, you're the one that wants it
Turn it up, play a song and let's just see what haunts it

So I hit a couple of chords in my old country way of strumming
And then my fingers turned to lightning, man, I never heard it coming
It was like I always knew it, I just don't know where I learned it
It wasn't nothing but the truth so I just rared back and burned it

Well, I lost all track of time, there was nothin I couldn't pick
Up and down the neck, man, I never missed a lick
The guitar almost played itself and there was nothing I could do
It was getting hard to tell just who was playing who
When I finally put it down I couldn't catch my breath

My hands were shaking and I was scared to death
The old man finally got up, said where in the hell you been
I been waitin all these years for you to stumble in
Then he took down an old dusty case and said go on, pack it up
You don't owe me nothin' and then he said good luck

There was something spooky in his voice and something strange in his face
And when he shut the lid I saw my name on the case"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxOego2Sso

If you ever have a chance to see these two old friends performing together, I'd highly recommend it. Great singer/songwriting and the pickin' ain't too shabby either.

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Miami Mike,

Thanks for the link. The lyrics are cool and you are right the picking isn't shabby at all.

RK

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RK

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Man that song gave me a bit of the cold chills up and down my spine. Almost like I get when I listen to Charlie Daniel's song "The Legend of Woolly Swamp". These two guys are awesome. I'd like to see them in my neck-of-the-woods sometime.

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Thats not bad Mike!

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Guy Clark and Verlon Thompson have several other You Tube clips if you really like this stuff...

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Hello Mike,

You know Mike the near same experiance happened to
to me, except when I shut the case it was labeled
"You can't Afford me"

Thanks for the link.

Cheers.

Hi Mr Bill,

Perhaps it was the wrong case.

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Very cool sounding song Mike! Thanks for pointing it out!

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Thanks Miami Mike great tune.