"Birthday Greeting"

Intended as a birthday greeting for my nephew, but feel free to comment and send to your friends (or enemies), on their birthdays.

Loosely based on tablature I found courtesy of
http://www.gtabs.org/tablature/xqpIxaxI/Happy%20Birthday%20-%20Fingerstyle%20...

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"Tears, Idle Tears" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.

Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!"
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Played finger style on my 6-string Republic brass-bodied "Resolian" resonator guitar, and self-accompanied with a party favor(kazoo). I use this guitar when playing the kazoo because drool and slobber comes out the end of a kazoo, and I don't want that all over my more expensive guitars.

Note: I wear the ski mask because I'm otherwise famous, and don't want this to "get out".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• birthday
• humor
• poetry
• 6-string
• resonator
• National
• steel-bodied
• ResoRocket
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• guitar
• acoustic
• blues
• kazoo
• 199th Light Infantry Brigade

[hoopiejohn]

Mike!

Hope this makes up for all the toys I didn't buy you for your birthdays when you were a kid.

Happy Birthday!

Uncle "hoop"

[gretshean28]

lol, thanks hoopie john, your cat is awesome, KILL THE BLOON! I'll get that song down one of these days.

[MrBlindWillieBrown]

LOL!! The Kazoo caught me by suprise!!! NICE!!

[turncoatslethbridge]

Looks like Hoopiejohn's lost a little weight!