Lyrics
The headstock on that '68 Martin
Was snapped clean off at the volute.
She set the case down on Leo's counter Thursday, half-past nine,
Said, "It's his, but the damage is absolute."
[Chorus]
And she smiled a smile like a new chisel's edge
(sharp and mean and fine)
"I want a dovetail lie where the break used to be"
(a secret little line)
"Mend it strong, mend it true, make it sing better than new."
(better than it's ever been)
"Just leave a little piece of me tucked in."
[Verse 2]
The shop smelled of Titebond and old rosewood dust
As he clamped the mahogany neck tight.
She handed him a shard of abalone, pearlescent grey,
That caught the bare bulb of the work light.
[Bridge]
He traced the grain like a map of a heart,
A story of pressure and strain.
Then he routed a space just the size of a tear
To hide there forever in the grain.
[Chorus]
And she smiled a smile like a new chisel's edge
(sharp and mean and fine)
"I want a dovetail lie where the break used to be"
(a secret little line)
"Mend it strong, mend it true, make it sing better than new."
(better than it's ever been)
"Just leave a little piece of me tucked in."
[Outro]
He buffed the nitro 'til you couldn't see the scar.
(couldn't see the scar)
Just a glimmer of pearl under the varnish on his favorite guitar.
About Hank Wyatt
Hank Wyatt learned to play guitar in a quiet bedroom overlooking a persimmon orchard, on the Oklahoma farm his Japanese-American grandparents started after the war. He spent his childhood split between two houses, becoming a quiet observer and a student of mending things—first fences, then guitars, then people. His honky-tonk songs, written from the back rooms of Tulsa dive bars where he still…
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