Loan Me Your Guitar

Loan Me Your Guitar

(for Timmy Dube’)

I’ve got a home and a family

Five hundred miles away

But this hotel room is my home right now

And if I want a paycheck I’ve gotta stay.

I could go have a beer and talk to the “guys”

Downstairs in the neon lit bar

But I’d rather be alone

Could you do me a favor,

And loan me your guitar?

I’m no performer

I don’t sing too good.

But the sound of the strings

And my lonesome fingers

Dancing on the wood

Makes me feel just like a star.

It’s the only thing

That will help me rest…

Can you see your way clear

To loan me your guitar?

I’ll sing you a song

About the “Lonesome Valley”

And the River that never ends

I know one other

But it’s much too sad

So I only sing it for friends.

But who knows? Maybe

In years afar

We just might meet again.

I’ll sing it for you

And I’ll loan you my guitar.