polly want a cracker

Last night The Mighty Sam gave me chords to:

• Man of Constant Sorrow
  
• Well All Right
  
• Gloria
  
• Lola (at least the beginning part)
  
• Polly

For "Well All Right" and "Man of Constant Sorrow" he introduced me to the capo. I actually knew what a capo was before but this was the first time I've ever played with one. It's rather odd. When you get way up the neck the frets get a lot closer together.

But there's a way to play "Man of Constant Sorrow" without a capo - you just slide the F chord up six frets, then up two more, then back to F. That's the whole song.

I'm quite pleased with being able to play "Polly." Now I need to learn all the words.

I also figured out the chords to "Laid" over the weekend. When I revealed this to The Mighty Sam, he got mighty angry. He thinks I'm weird for liking that song so much.

Spent most of tonight working on a brief for our civil division, but I still took half an hour to play through the additions to my repertoire. There's a beautiful mindfulness that happens while playing the guitar. It's very Zen.