Maker of Things

When John Prine played this, he performed with a capo on 5. So, in the first version I uploaded, that's what I did. However, after messing around more, and knowing my voice is considerably deeper than John's was, I decided to try it down a step with Capo 3. I find it fits my voice even more. I might even go another step down and see how it goes.

Broken hearts and dirty windows

Make life difficult to see

That's why last night and this morning

"About uh, about three months ago, I was in, uh

I was in Rome, Italy

I don't know what I was doing there

I was just there, uh

I got this sandwich one day

And they uh, gave me a newspaper with it

It was the only newspaper they had there

That was in English, and uh

They had all the news from all around the world

Just crammed into four pages

Didn't even have any funnies in there, you know

Every time you turned a page something

Just jumped right out at you, you know

So I found an old friend in there, and I wrote her a song

After all, I have still done so little; I am nothing;