Topic: Playing Townes Gets me Down

I wrote this as a poem a little bit ago but finally put it to music. https://soundcloud.com/jets60/playing-t … s-me-down/

Playing Townes Gets Me Down Jeff Gilpin


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Intro Dm7


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Playing [Dm7]Townes Gets Me Down


But [Dm7]I still play his songs


Something a[F]bout them tugs my heartstrings


Leaves me [C]feeling twice as strong


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This old [Dm7]world makes me weary


[Dm7]All the stuff going on


So I es[F]cape some to his music


And [C]suddenly all my weariness is [Dm7]gone


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Now I [G]know his voice is not for [Dm7]everyone


For [C]some I know it might have too much [Dm7]twang


But [G]he just talks to me through the [Dm7]words that he wrote


That’s [F]why I go back [C]again and again


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He [Dm7]wrote about love and life



And [Dm7]all the in-betweens


Things I [F]think on, but his guitar


Drives his [C]words home or so it seems


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So playing [Dm7]Towens may get me down


But it [Dm7]helps me ease my pain


Not [F]quite as much as he went through


But I [C]kind of understand just the [Dm7]same


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Now I [G]know his voice is not for [Dm7]everyone


For [C]some I know it might have too much [Dm7]twang


But [G]he just talks to me through the [Dm7]words that he wrote


That’s [F]why I go back [C]again and again


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Playing [Dm7]Townes Gets Me Down


But [Dm7]I still play his songs


Something a[F]bout them tugs my heartstrings


Leaves me [C]feeling twice as [Dm7]strong



J  E  T  S
...and yet a Washington Commanders fan (unless they change their name again) ...long story...HTT...C

Re: Playing Townes Gets me Down

Jeff that is written  in a perfect way. You play and sing it with real good feeling.     

Re: Playing Townes Gets me Down

Thanks, Pete.     

J  E  T  S
...and yet a Washington Commanders fan (unless they change their name again) ...long story...HTT...C