Ghosts

Copyright 2013 – Dan Tappan
Played in standard, no capo.
This wasn’t directly inspired by Newtown CT. Instead it was the result of two influences

  1. a Facebook friend who’s response to Newtown was to insist that any restrictions on guns were unreasonable because he always did right thing with his.
  2. the all too common news stories, seemingly coming once a day, about children killed by guns they find lying around at their parents/grandparents/friends houses. I saw a statistic the other day: in America there are over 750 emergency room visits a year due to children being accidentally injured by firearms; and over 500 deaths.

I started to wonder how someone would feel who had been responsible for one of those guns being available.
I also wanted to experiment with non-obvious rhythms and rhyme schemes.

Ghosts

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