Name: It's a Guitar Chord (No one's Flipping You Off)
Duration: P00H03M17S
Description: The picking pattern came first, then the title came to me when I looked down at my hand. It can't be played any other way so when you see me playing this on the streets please don't slug me.

It's a Guitar Chord (No one's Flipping You Off)

from Butterflies in Caterpillar Drag by Ric Alba

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The picking pattern came first, then the title came to me when I looked down at my hand. It can't be played any other way so when you see me playing this on the streets please don't slug me.

lyrics

It's a guitar chord. No one's flipping you off
It's a guitar chord. No one's flipping you off

Walking through town, they called out my name.
They flashed me a sign and the image remained.
I ran home and tried it out on this guitar.

And who knew what beauty, what music, what style
were packed in one finger I took with a smile and then I waved
"Hi" as they laughed away.
Well now they can all watch me play this guitar chord.

What a useful gesture they taught me to do.
So talk to the finger and learn something new.
But do me one favor before I go.
Won't you flash me some sign that you know this guitar chord.

It's a guitar chord.
No one's flipping you off.

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from Butterflies in Caterpillar Drag, released September 16, 2017

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Ric Alba California

The one who had been in Undercover, The Altar Boys, and now Dead Artist Syndrome, and Moral DK.

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