Summer of ....... can't make it Rhyme with anything

For the last two weeks I have been the proud owner of an electric guitar, a cheap copy of the Fender Stratocaster, with an even cheaper and nastier practice amp, but good enough to learn on. I have taught myself  a few chords - four in fact, which makes me better qualified than Status Quo and can strum a few together to sound almost but not quite unlike Buddy Holly or Edward Cochrane. Well some of their intro's at least. So now that I am a proper musician, and with abject apologies to Brain Adams, here is my first go at songwriting. Some of the lyrics may need a bit of fine tuning I suspect, but it has everything a rock song should have, a car, a girl, a guitar and beer. 2012 is very difficult to rhyme though.

I got my first real six-string

Bought it at Ebay, Online,
Played it till my fingers got slightly sore and the neighbours complained about the noise,

well it was about a half past nine


Me and some guys from work
Had a band and we tried moderately hard

Ian quit and Steve got divorced

I shoulda known we'd never get far

Oh when I look back now

That summer seemed to last forever

And if I had the choice

Ya - I'd always wanna be somewhere else
Those were the worst days of my life



Ain't no use in complaining'

When you got a job to do

Spent my evening's down at the pub
And that's when I met you



Standin' by your mama's Porsche

You told me it would last forever

Oh and when you held my beer

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the worst days of my life



Back in the summer of 2012



Man we were wastin' time

We were middle aged and senseless

We needed to wind up to speed

I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no



And now the tyres need changin'

Look at everything that's come and gone

Sometimes when I play that old six-string

I think about the chord I just played wrong



Driving your mama's Porsche

You told me it would last forever

But the sills have rusted out
and the motor doesn't sound too clever
Those were the worst days of my life



Back in the summer of 2012