I’ve been working on a new song. It’s a love song to my first true love. And as you listen, you’ll learn that there is something I sing about the time we lived in and that our love could never be. Well, it’s a love song to Fernando Sor, who was a classical composer of the 18th century who is very well known for his guitar compositions.
When I was twelve and playing my classical guitar very passionately, my mother gave me a recording of Fernando’s guitar pieces. Not knowing that he had been dead for more than a century, I fell in love with his music and with him. I would secretively listen to his music all night long and play along with ones that I could. It was like dancing with him. As far as I was concerned, he was like the Jonas Brothers, now, I guess, and I fantasized about his love for me being expressed his in lovely music. When I learned the truth about him and the time he lived, I was heartbroken and cried myself to sleep. My dream of him hearing me play my music was shattered.
Here’s the first few lines of my song. It should be polished enough to include on my CD that will be out this coming summer……. and I hope to be able to perform it on Sunday at the Road Runner
It was the dawn of my womanhood
You felt so good
And no on knew of our rendezvous
While everyone else slept
My heart was swept
Into another world
………….Oh Fernando, I loved you so…….but, ours could never be
Oh Fernando, how could you know…….you were the first for me……
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It’s in the key of Am and has a very classical feel. I haven’t checked the timing, but there’s probably as much classical guitar solo as vocal in it………..as it should be for my love, Fernando…….:o)
I hope you end up loving it the way I do.