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Hey LR.  I really, really, really like this one.  I've played it through a few times, but not quite as you suggest (shocker).  It's a little tough to read from the printout in my book, so I'm going to rewrite it.  When I get together with my buddies and they hear a new song, they usually say, "Who wrote that?"  (They'd know it wouldn't be me).  Anyway, I'm going to write it to credit of Last Rebel in my book, but if you'd rather me to use your real name with my friends and such, just send it to me in an e-mail.  If it's nothing to you to use Last Rebel, then it's nothing to me.  I just want to make sure credit is given where credit is due. 

Plus I'm thinking they'll come up with some new ones.  Like about a man who couldn't walk, or about a thief on a cross, or about a king who wouldn't hear, and maybe slip in some everyday stuff to really bring it home. 

I just can't tell you how much I appreciate your sharing this wonderful piece of work. 

- Zurf

I am sort of a jack of all trades, including a variety of creative expressions, rather than the master of any.  I am learning guitar and that's going pretty well (though my bass is jealous).  I have done some drawing in the past, though I don't think there was much worth to it.  It was better than some do.  Painting, not so much.  My main alternative mode of expression is tinkering.  I like to tinker with my kayaks and canoes.  Add some deck rigging, or put in tackle holders, or add a rowing station.  Nothing special, but if I think about it the creative process is much the same.  Get a notion, expand on it a bit, think through how to make it happen, then get your hands busy, and when you're done you've made one thing into another. 

My sister however is a freelance artist and also a talented banjo picker.  She also plays guitar, mountain dulcimer, a little piano, and even harmonica.  She is also brilliant at math - earned a degree as an architect and worked as an architect for a while before going freelance with her art. 

My mom was the same way too.  She played piano by ear and sang like Patsy Cline.  Plus she was an astoundingly good quilter.  She could reproduce traditional patterns, but mostly she enjoyed making up scenes.  She'd describe what she wanted to my dad, who is an artist (and a brilliant mathemetician, but not musician).  He'd draw it out from her description.  Then she'd cut out the paper and figure out how to make the patterns (radical math application as far as I'm concerned). 

Me, I earned a degree in economics.  It requires quite a lot of math but the answers aren't nearly as concrete.  Gives a lot of fudge space that way. 

- Zurf

I am LOVING your music Last Rebel.  This one is coming across like a blues, so I won't be playing it.  Not because I don't want to, but it's just a talent limitation thing you see.  Nevertheless, I can hear what I'd like it to sound like just by reading the lyrics.  So cool.  Definitely some of your best work yet. 

- Zurf

Huh.  I'm surprised to see Toby Keith endorsing anything without being paid for it.  Nothing against Toby Keith.  Just the opposite.  He's seemed like a solid business operator since coming onto the scene, and that's something I can respect.  Excepting his support of our military members of course.

I thought C/G was 302010.  If not, I've been playing it wrong.  And the reason I thought I knew that one was it's how I was playing G7 wrong.  I've got to stop finding chords by playing them wrong.  Maybe I should get a chord calculator...

- Big D

Jeff,

You live right around the corner from me.  We should head out to SNP some day to pester some trout and sing some songs. 

Nice poem.  I have felt the same sort of feelings in the same general area, though have not come across any bobcats.  I'm afraid that my woodscraft is sufficiently poor to notify any wild animals of my whereabouts long before I get the chance to spot them.  Perhaps you wouldn't enjoy hiking with me after all...

- Zurf

The best part about mocking stoners is that they can't remember who did it. 

While I don't think anyone should be mocked, and that all people are redeemable (see bootlegger's post), I certainly have to suggest that if I had to choose which behavior to mock - doing drugs versus not doing drugs - I would surely pick doing drugs.  Good choice on your part Rockerchick for choosing to abstain.  That is a PERFECT example of the difference between learning the hard way (it's hard to resist peer pressure and make the right choice) and learning the Uh-oh What Have I Done way.  Well done!!!

- Zurf

I recall being 13 and it did in fact suck.  The good news is that what you learn now will serve you your entire life.  The bad news is that it's not fun learning it.  Part of the problem is that your mind, your spirit, and your body are all in conflict with one another for now.  Another part of it is that you have so many important lessons to learn.  Worse is that there's only two ways to learn those life lessons, the hard way and the Uh-oh, What Have I Done way.  Your parents are trying to guide you to learning them the hard way.  There is no easy way, but the Uh Oh What Have I Done way seems like the easy way on the front end of the lesson.  Bear with it.  Better times worth waiting for are coming. 

- Zurf

I've seen that variation recommended in a few songs and have given it a try.  I may not have played it right because I didn't notice any particular improvement over the other way when I gave it a go.

- Zurf