This song’s about my baby
[ch]
[6m] This song’s a-[5]-bout my [1] baby [4]
[6m] This song’s [5] ’bout how I [4] feel [–]
[6m] This song’s [5] not some [1] fairy [4] tale
[6m] This song’s [5] ’bout something [4] real [–]
[v1]
[6m] This song’s a-[1]-bout [6m] three minutes [5] long
[6m] It took twice that [5] long to [4] write [–]
[6m] This song’s [1]pretty much a [6m] waste of [5] time
and that [6m] pretty much [5] sums up [4] tonight [–]
Hell that [6m] pretty much [5] sums up my [4] life [–]
[brdg]
I’ve been [1] writing the [5] same song [bridge]
since [4] you said good [5] bye
and I [6m] wrote it [5] again to-[4]-night [–]
[ch]
[v2]
[6m] This song [1] won’t — [6m] end no [5] wars
[6m] this song [5] won’t save [4] the world [–]
[6m] this song’s [1] just a-[6m]-nother [5] song
[6m] about some [5] guy who [4] lost some [–] girl
[6m] it’s [5] not the [4] end of the [–] world
[ch] …
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[each bracketed Nashville number indicates a new chord; dashes indicate repeat from previous bar]
Notes/Memo
This song came about in response to an informal competition in an online songwriter’s workshop.
Contestants are to submit a newly written song along with a one line description of the subject of the song.
The winner gets his song in rotation in the stereo of the family car of the guy who conceived the competition. This is primarily for the amusement of his children, who like to get one line summaries of what each song they hear is about. (Example per Dad: “Warren Zevon, ‘Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner’- This song is about a soldier who gets killed and comes back without his head.”)
The title of this song, of course, is disingenuous.
This song is actually about… this song.
And, of course, the songwriter. The songwriter in the song. The fictional songwriter.
