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This started as guitar noodling translated to a full band track in Band in a Box. Then no lyrics would come. I kept playing it and humming along. I knew it wanted to be titled traveller so I kept pondering. Then I realized it wanted to be about a time traveler. Then I realized it was about a specific time traveler. Then I realized its real title was Sam Beckett's Blues.

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Traveller (Sam Beckett's Blues)
(c) Feb 5, 2020 Sean McGaughey FAWM 3

Intro D F#m G A
V1 Bar 5-12
D F#m
I always wanted to be a time traveller,
G A
Visit seven wonders, ancient Rome
D F#m
I'm a tourist trapped in the 20th century
G Gm7
Swallowed in crowds, always alone

Chorus (esque) 13-17
A Bm
I take other people's problems and make them my own.
A Em- Em7
Wishing the answers I find for them will lead me back home.

V2
D F#m
Each week I leap to another time, another body
G A
Al and Ziggy help me try to set things right
D F#m
What I dreamt would be the dawn of a new age
G Gm7
Turned out for me to be an endless night

Chorus

Bridge
C D Dsus D
I'm tired of the leaping.
C D Dsus D
Tired of receiving other lives for safekeeping.
C D Dsus D
Tired of wondering if this leap will be my last
A Em7 A
Too tired to inhabit a stranger's past

Extro

D Bm
I want to get off this endless highway,
D Bm
Will the next exit finally go my way
D Bm
Or am I destined forever to roam,
G D
never finding my way home

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from Year With No Spring (2020 Yearbook), released January 4, 2021
Words, Music and performance: Sean McGaughey

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Sean McGaughey Ontario

I am a folk singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and children's entertainer in Simcoe County Ontario. By day, I am a mild-mannered Elementary School teacher-librarian.

Since 2013, I have been participating the the February Album Writing Month Challenge at fawm.org to write 14 songs in February.

This year I challenged myself to up my musicianship and production values. This is the result. ... more

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