A Guitar Is Like An Old Friend

My Ex-wife Was Trying To Be Nice Once, So She Took Me To A Concert In Los Angeles. I Went With Her To Symphony Hall, And The Orchestra Was Playing. When The Show Started, The Spotlight Was Sharp On This One Man (andres Segovia) And He Had Sombrero On And His Guitar Propped Up Like This And, Oh Man ... He Was A Master ! - I Really Heard It. That One Guitar Sounded Like A Whole Orchestra To Me.

It Seems Like I Always Had To Work Harder Than Other People. Those Nights When Everybody Else Is Asleep, And You Sit In Your Room Trying To Play Scales. I Just Wonder Where I Was When The Talent Was Being Given Out, Like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton ... Oh, There's Many More! I Wouldn't Want To Be Like Them, You Understand, But I'd Like To Be Equal, If You Will.

Nobody Loves Me But My Mother, And She Could Be Jivin' Too.

When You Don't Have Much Money, You Worry That They'll Just Put You In The Ground Someplace And Your Loved Ones Won't Know Where You Are.

I Liked Blues From The Time My Mother Used To Take Me To Church. I Started To Listen To Gospel Music, So I Liked That. But I Had An Aunt At That Time, My Mother's Aunt, Who Bought Records By People Like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson And A Few Others.