day 171: Lights

Lights, by the Jayhawks.

This song is another off the Sweet Relief tribute to Victoria Williams, Lucinda’s sister, circa the year I worked at the first record store. (The original is sparse and sweet and amazing.)

For a long time it was my “going back to wherever I live after a trip somewhere else” song, as the plane descended into New York, or anywhere else, and the lights of the city look so good.

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Father’s Day project, started in the morning before our hike out at the Manassas battlefield park, and finished after, but before dinner.

I can’t really sing the high parts in this, but the rest of it is passable, including, surprise, this key works just fine for one of my ol’ harps. (I cleaned it up a little. but I think I’m supposed to soak it or something to limber it up after sitting in a box on a shelf for a bunch of years.

Oh, and there’s no good chord chart for this on the internet, so I had to figure it out myself, more or less. I really need to sign into my account at one of those places and submit this one.