Name: Long Cigarettes, Cheap Red Wine
Duration: P00H04M22S
Description: Unusually for me, uses an open G tuning. Probably because it was originally written for banjo. (No, don't go!)

Long Cigarettes, Cheap Red Wine

from Ten Percent Blues by David A. Harley

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Unusually for me, uses an open G tuning. Probably because it was originally written for banjo. (No, don't go!)

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Long Cigarettes, Cheap Red Wine (words & music by David A. Harley)

You sing your songs / the stage is bare
There isn’t / anyone out there
From time to time / it just seems that way
And I run out / of songs to play

Forget the musak / and the beer
The open mouths / the grudging cheers
There isn’t / any better way
To freeload / your life away

Back in / 1969
I lost someone / I thought was mine
That’s the price / I had to pay
When I ran out / of songs to play

Goodbye old friend / I have to leave
Just to prove / that I’m still free
I’ll see you / in a year or so
And buy the round / you say I owe

The long cigarettes / the cheap red wine
The melodies / you say are mine
And if you find / somewhere to be
I hope / you’ll save a place for me

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from Ten Percent Blues, released May 19, 2021
Words, music, guitar and vocal by David A. Harley

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David A. Harley England, UK

David Harley is a former professional musician, administrator, IT security editor, author and researcher, and former much else that is even less impressive. He now lives in Cornwall. More info at whealalice.com