Across the Universe



Rhiannon and I like to noodle with guitars. Usually I play and she sings (usually her original song, "The Rose in my Heart"). Sometimes she plays and I sing (usually something with a bear in it who is not too smart). The other day she wanted to get out the "tiny guitar", my grandfather's 1926 Martin mandolin which lives in its original case. The mandolin has a crack on the front of the body (it's been there for decades) and is missing a string, and is constantly out of tune (what mandolin isn't?). But we play it sometimes. And in this particular instance, Rhiannon decided to sing the Beatles' "Across the Universe", which she says is her second favorite Beatles song (right behind "Help!"). But she sings this song a whole lot more than the other.

The melody is there, but the words may seem new to you. I think she is singing from one of the studio outtakes in one of the boxed sets that we have....

Please note the Hannah Montana microphone/headset combo and Christopher Walken hair. That poor child....

Rhiannon. Cu-ute (as said with a Liverpudlian accent).

Andrew (Papa)

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