Love Is So Short
March 2022
The first two lines come from Chilean poet Pablo Neruda: "Love is so short, forgetting so long."
Chorus
Love Is so short (love is so short)
and forgetting so long (forgetting so long)
What you try and forget (try and forget)
Comes back twice as strong
As night turns to morn (night turns to morn)
You been there all along
Cause love Is so short (love is so short)
And forgetting so long (forgetting so long)
Verse 1
Well the loneliest sound
At the break of the day
Is the lowin' of cows
Who didn't get hay
And the loneliest road
That I ever was on
Is the one that I trod
Since you up and gone
Verse 2
When the whippoorwill cries
Then the dusk turns to dawn
And the damp in the air
Turns to dew on the lawn
And the days and the weeks
Turn to months and to years
But the dreamin' don't stop
When the night disappears
Verse 3
Well the dew on the grass
Gets drunk up by the hay
And the damp in the air
Is lapped up by the Jay
And the milk from cow
Turns to meat in the steer
But whatever I drink
Turns right into tears
Chorus & Verse use the same chords
| I - - | - - - | V - - | - - - | I - - | - - - | - - - | - - - |
|IV - - | - - - | - - - | - - - | I - - | - - - | - - - | - - - |
|IV - - | - - - | - - - | - - - | I - - | - - - | IV - - | - - - |
| I - - | - - - | V - - | - - - | I - - | - - - | - - - | - - - |
In the key of C, I = C, IV = F, V = G
Mixed and Mastered by the inimitable Jeff Lewis in Northampton, Massachussets
Special thanks to the fellas who played along on this recording, and to Carl Hellander, Annadeene Fowler and Tom Fowler. In the recording you can hear me singing and playing guitar. Jeff Lewis is on mandolin, Ed Howe on Fiddle, and Noah Fishman on Bass.
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