Entry for 23rd January, 2008

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I had my first mandolin jam session last night. The Advisor immediately showed me up by learning the mandolin bits from "Maggie May" and REM's "Losing My Religion" in about twenty minutes. He is far too talented. That will get him into trouble one day. i imagine that some mandolin owners would get jealous, and creep into his house in the dead of night, an would use their mandolins in unspeakable ways to inflict a horrible and painful death on him. It will be just like Mozart's demise at the hands of Salieri.
Now we have learned "maggie May" and "Losing My Religion", I think that we have exhausted just about all pop songs which feature the mandolin. I think the Sex Pistols used it for the middle eight in the album version of "Pretty Vacant" (you know the bit where they segue into a sixteenth cetury madrigal) but once we've got that under our belts we will need to move onto folk music. I have started growing a beard and am investing in an arran jumper.
Here are my lyrics for our first folk song -
A mandolin owner was Alan B
Hey catty diddle a dee down dilly
But The Advisor was better than he-ee
Diddly flippity humpy down rum
The Advisor better go back to guita-ars
Hey John Barrowman scattily doo
Or a mandolin'll go right up his...
Woof ya beauty, ooh ya ma cavity noo noo noo.