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Great Big Guitar

from Landed by Katherine Wheatley

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I was back in my hometown, Parry Sound one early evening when I saw four teenage girls walking home from the town beach. They had sand stuck on their feet. Their flip-flops were dangling from their fingers and their towels were draped over their arms. They were in bikinis. If you were in the middle of a city, it would seem odd. But it was so normal for them and it was normal for me growing up. That image got the song started. But it quickly evolved into a song about the extreme self-consciousness of early teenagehood, specifically when it came to being a girl wanting to take deep dive into the guitar in the early 1970s.

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Great Big Guitar
Words and music by Katherine Wheatley

Just a couple of dogs
And a truck on the street
And some girls from the beach
With sand stuck on their feet
And boys upon boys
Piled into one car
And a tiny little girl
Carrying a great big guitar

Jake, who ain't been fixed yet
He come out the cat swing door
Gives her the hairy eyeball
Meows "what do you carry that thing for?"
And the girls keep getting closer
They've put flip-flops on their feet
She's wondering will she make it
To the end of the street
Hmm mm, hmm mm, hmm, mm

The pavement's all cracked
The trees are all old
There's a house on the corner
That ain't never been sold
And the shadows grow long
At the end of the day
And the tiny little girl
Just wants to learn how to play

There's a face in every window
She hates it when they stare
She hates it when boys whistle
She hates the colour of her hair
The "flip flops" keep getting closer
She bets they never eat
And she's wondering will she make it
To the end of the street
Hmm mm, hmm mm, hmm mm

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from Landed, released January 13, 2022
Dennis Keldie - accordion
David Travers-Smith - Hammond organ
Scott Merritt - parade drum
Katherine Wheatley - acoustic guitar

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