Topic: My Fingers Bleed

Here's one I just wrote. Fits this current mood I'm in, and of the world too I guess. Kind of a bluegrassy finger pickin the chords sort of thing.

My Fingers Bleed- by Jeff Gilpin - 5-9-2020


Intro A// D// A// G// – G// A// D// G/ A/


[A]Can’t go to work


And I [D]Work from home


[A]Can’t wake up


When I’m [G]all alone


~~~


Chorus

[G]Don’t want to write


Don’t [A]want to read


[D]Eyes so tired


My [G]fingers [A]bleed


~~~


Walk outside


Go back in


Day just started


Begin again


~~~


Chorus


~~~


Don’t want a cat


Don’t want a dog


Don’t want to lay



Like a bump on a log


~~~


Chorus


~~~


Play Intro Again


~~~


Bridge

[D]Tell you what I’m gonna do


[G]Get myself on [A]out of this mood


[A]Put on some music


[D]Hum along


[G]Don’t even matter


Don’t [E]know the song [E7]


~~~


Made it through


Another day


Sure enough another


Heading my way


~~~


Chorus  - end on A and let it linger



 

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

Re: My Fingers Bleed

Here it is if you want to know how it sounds - https://soundcloud.com/jets60/my-fingers-bleed     

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

Re: My Fingers Bleed

Nice one Jeff - kind of bluegrass - Renaissance feel to it - I like it a lot !!

Thanks for sharing.

Jim     

The price of anything, is the amount of life you exchange for it.   - H.D. Thoreau
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke

Re: My Fingers Bleed

I love the simplicity of that bluegrass sound, and the lyrics just about sum up the mood of the moment     

Thick as two short planks

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Thanks you two     

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

Re: My Fingers Bleed

Definitely have had days, weeks, months like this     

“Find your own sound.  Dont be a second rateYngwie Malmsteen be a first rate you”

– George Lynch 2013 (Dokken, Lynchmob, KXM, Tooth & Nail etc....)

Re: My Fingers Bleed

Don't want to lay like a bump on a log...what a fabulous line! That's saying something in a song full of great lines. If I have one small criticism it might be a tad too fast. But a great performance none the less     

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.

Re: My Fingers Bleed

Thanks Phill - As for speed, I was playing it more at a quick more bluegrassy speed, which usually gives time for more music. It would be a good campfire song giving people a chance to show off their playing skills.

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

Re: My Fingers Bleed

yes i can imagine it with a banjo     

Ask not what Chordie can do for you, but what you can do for Chordie.