There was absolutely no reason to do this.

I blame the iTunes shuffle which spun me through Carly Simon.

I was working away on other stuff, thinking in the back of my mind about all the friends and colleagues getting ready to wake up for the first day of OERR17.

Boom.

Nobody blogs it better, NOBODY.

A quick dash for tabs, chords not bad, the second one even better with a suggestion to move capo to fret 2. Grab the lyrics. Pretty easy to redo them, 10 minutes. Run through twice, fix a few words.

I started doing an audio test, but just kept going, so this is a one take recording.


(Capo II)


A    Am     E    E7
NOBODY blogs it better

A         Am         E     E7
Makes me feel sad for the rest

A        Am     G#m           C#m
NOBODY blogs it half as good as you

F#m     B7    A   E7
Jim Groom, you're the best


E         E7           A          Am
I wasn't looking but your RSS feed found me

E        E7           A           Am
I  tried to hide   in Face   book

E              E7
But the open web around me

A          Am
The blogger who blogged me

   F#m        B7      E          E7
Is posting all your secrets out tonight

A    Am     E    E7
And NOBODY blogs it better

A         Am             E     E7
Though sometimes I wish someone could

A        Am     G#m           C#m
NOBODY blogs it quite the way you do

F#m     B7      E      E7
Why'd you have to be so good?


E               E7     
The way you post frequently

A             Am
Published just for me

E         E7           A          Am           
There's some kind of magic inside your server

E               E7 
That keeps me  just reading

A            Am
Wordpress keeps it feeding

 F#m        B7      E          E7
How'd you learn to blog the things you do?


A    Am     E    E7
And NOBODY blogs it better

A       Am          E    E7
Makes me feel sad for the rest


A        Am     G#m           C#m
NOBODY blogs it half as good as you

F#m             B7    A   E7          A  R      
Jim Groom, Jim Groom    you're the best

Jim Groom, you're the best
Jim Groom, you're the best
Jim Groom,, you're the best
Jim Groom,, you're the best
Maybe second best,
Maybe second best

Second isn’t bad!

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An early 90s builder of web stuff and blogging Alan Levine barks at CogDogBlog.com on web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), photography, bending WordPress, and serendipity in the infinite internet river. He thinks it's weird to write about himself in the third person. And he is 100% into the Fediverse (or tells himself so) Tooting as @cogdog@cosocial.ca

Comments

  1. You really know how to make a man’s day. So awesome, and can’t say I disagree with any of it. But now I have to blog! Although, who is this #NOBODY guy, I have a feeling he is getting all the credit 🙂

  2. Also, I don’t think that whole second best is in keeping with the spirit of the song, or even truth 🙂

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