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I started looking for a song Sunday night this week, a little earlier than usual. After two ideas went nowhere, I went to the shelf where I keep my memories. I dusted off an old one about learning my first guitar chords and songs. As I recall, an older kid from down the street named Dennis happened to be riding his bike by our house where my sister and I were in the front yard fiddling with a guitar she'd won in a contest. He tuned it and taught us an E minor chord and I was hooked. It began a series of magical 'first times' in music for me.

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I learned my first chord in the front yard
They showed me where my fingers go
Learned to play my first song in my room
Listening hard to the radio
I wrote my first words to my first song
When a girl took my breath away
And I found I could say for the first time
Just what I wanted to say

I took a road trip for the first time
All the way to Nashville, Tennessee
Sliding right through a Wisconsin snow storm
My Dad's car, my guitar and me
I sang my songs for the first time
In an office on 16th avenue
Billy Bob smiled, said he liked my style
Nothing he heard that he could use

Something about the first time, never be the same
The world spins different when what you love... calls your name

Then I sang to my daughter for the first time
That afternoon she was born
And I showed my boy my old guitar
How to play an E minor chord
And I felt that magic like the first time
Same as it happened way back when
That's when I knew that dreams come true
And music has me dreaming again

I'm missing those first times, but that's OK
Life will bring those first times… back again someday

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from 52 Songs in 52 Weeks: 2012, track released January 19, 2012

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James Hersch Minneapolis, Minnesota

I live on this piece of prairie. I'm passionate and dedicated to writing songs in hopes of singing them for people. I don't think I could continue without both ends of that process. Create then hope. It's here I write songs, and here I wait to sing them for others. ... more

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