Tom Painting
Cabin Fever
I want to fall in love again and so go to the local guitar shop and ask for a used acoustic. A tattooed young man hands me a sweet-looking Yamaha. I strum first-position chords with my arthritic fingers. “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away,” he says. “From the album Help and one of Lennon’s best.”
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the knotty pine
window frame
About the Author
Tom Painting teaches junior high humanities and facilitates a birding club at The Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hi Tom, I thought about the baritone uke (4 strings the same as the guitar) I bought myself several years ago. You had the good fortune to have the young tattooed man recognize the tunes you played. I’m not sure anyone would recognize the tunes I play. But I’m going to try “you’ve got to hide your love away”. Bring your guitar along and visit me on a warm summer evening on my deck looking out onto the North Sasketchewan River and I’ll treat you to a beer. Cheers, Ray R.
You had me at “I want to fall in love again.”
What a wonderful way to begin. Thanks!
Sara Tropper