Barbecue in Guffey
On a summer afternoon
strings slide and bend
Listen to the banjo ring
And how the guitars blend
Jim pulls out a fiddle
Now there’s magic keeping time
It rises over old Cobb Creek
Brings peace to troubled minds
We were strangers just a while ago
But now we’re life long friends
That’s how it goes when pickers meet
Time and time again
Bill sings the melody
To a hundred cowboy songs
And Jim adds the harmony
As others join along
There’s a Barbecue in Guffey
Friends come from near and far
Out where the sky’s so clear at night
There’s a hundred billion stars
A neighbor holds a rodeo
When the calves are ready to run
Old Ed’s still roping them
He just turned 81
Denis feeds some neighbors
Who’ve been down on their luck
From the bounty of the mountain
With a tender yearling buck
There’s a Barbecue in Guffey
Friends come from near and far
Out where the sky’s so clear at night
There’s a hundred billion stars
There’s a Barbecue in Guffey
There’s a Barbecue in Guffey
you all come as you are.
© 2012, by Gary Shoe, ‘Barbecue in Guffey’
Banjo, electric guitars, Vocal: Gary Shoe
Harmony Vocal: Maureen Shoe
On a summer afternoon
strings slide and bend
Listen to the banjo ring
And how the guitars blend
Jim pulls out a fiddle
Now there’s magic keeping time
It rises over old Cobb Creek
Brings peace to troubled minds
We were strangers just a while ago
But now we’re life long friends
That’s how it goes when pickers meet
Time and time again
Bill sings the melody
To a hundred cowboy songs
And Jim adds the harmony
As others join along
There’s a Barbecue in Guffey
Friends come from near and far
Out where the sky’s so clear at night
There’s a hundred billion stars
A neighbor holds a rodeo
When the calves are ready to run
Old Ed’s still roping them
He just turned 81
Denis feeds some neighbors
Who’ve been down on their luck
From the bounty of the mountain
With a tender yearling buck
There’s a Barbecue in Guffey
Friends come from near and far
Out where the sky’s so clear at night
There’s a hundred billion stars
There’s a Barbecue in Guffey
There’s a Barbecue in Guffey
you all come as you are.
© 2012, by Gary Shoe, ‘Barbecue in Guffey’
Banjo, electric guitars, Vocal: Gary Shoe
Harmony Vocal: Maureen Shoe