How to Play Guitar and Be Cool

WRITTEN BY
Stephen Foster

℗© Stephen Foster

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How to Play Guitar an Be Cool

There’s a spinning ball
In a big black hole
And I’m not that big
I’m not in control

And I tell myself
Every chance I get 
You can only get so much on
A C-90 cassette

Someone grabbed his wife one day
And they created life
Then they sent him off to school
Where he learned how to play guitar and be cool

There’s a green-eyed girl
And her hair’s dark gold
And I wish I could stay single
But I’m not in control

And I’m not that rich
And I’m not that strong
So I asked her to come hear me
Singing some songs

It’s funny when you think about it
Everything I learned in life
And all I really had to know
Was how to play guitar and be cool

Home, no need to know why
Gone, no need to know where
We’re always home
And always gone
And always on our way there

There’s a spinning ball
In a big black hole
And I hope it don’t spin
Out of control

But until it does
I’m gonna stay right here
With the green-eyed girl
Year after year after year after year

And maybe we’ll retire 
Off the money from my car
Start a school for little children
Teach them how to play guitar and be cool

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