My friend Tater Totts was reading the Band in a Box forum post about using the Circle of Fifths and he just couldn't understand what was so hard about it all so he wrote this song to explain how it works in Nashville.

The Circle of Fifths, by Tater Totts. First song on his channel.

https://soundcloud.com/tater-totts-radio

Circle of Fifths
Performed by Tater "Nashville" Totts

CH

Got a circle of fifths
Around the front yard
Got a circle of empty fifths
Around the back yard too
I’ll keep going around this
Circle of fifths
Until I drink my mind
Off of you
Got a Circle of Fifths
In every room in the house
And baby it’s the best that I can do
And I’ll keep going around this
Circle of fifths
Until I drink my mind off of you

V1

Well I flunked out of school in the first grade
Cause I still couldn’t add
2 plus 2
But I didn’t need no schoolin’ that much anyways
I never got the hang of sniffing glue
But I reckon there’s good money money made in truckin’
Til you pull into the truck stop from hell
That’s where I met you
It was my first mistake
Cause I could smell the liquor in your hair

CH


Got a circle of fifths
Around the front yard
Got a circle of empty fifths
Around the back yard too
I’ll keep going around this
Circle of fifths
Until I drink my mind
Off of you
Got a Circle of Fifths
In every room in the house
And baby it’s the best that I can do
And I’ll keep going around this
Circle of fifths
Until I drink my mind off of you


V2

Well I only got one question ‘bout the liquor stores
What time do they open in your town
You know I got to get there
Early as I can
Cause there’s a woman that kicked my heart around
I should have known when I pulled into that truck stop
I should have known when I kissed her
And got a whiff of that smell
I should have known that that woman was the devil
And she would drag me right straight down into hell

CH

Got a circle of fifths
Around the front yard
Got a circle of empty fifths
Around the back yard too
I’ll keep going around this
Circle of fifths
Until I drink my mind
Off of you
Got a Circle of Fifths
In every room in the house
And baby it’s the best that I can do
And I’ll keep going around this
Circle of fifths
Until I drink my mind off of you

All Words and Music copyright 2018 by David Snyder




****** Song Summary *************

Title: Circle of Fifths

Words and Music by David Snyder, copyright 2018.


Style is _BOBTAIL.STY (Bobtail Bluegrass Banjo Country)

RealTracks in style: 2609:Bass, Electric, ClassicFunkRootFiveAlex Ev 130
RealTracks in style: 1262:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm PopShiningHeld Ev 120
RealTracks in style: ~~1118:Guitar, 12-String Acoustic, Strumming Ev 085
RealTracks in style: ~~589:Banjo, Bluegrass Doc Ev 100 (Rhythm)
RealDrums in style: BluesRockNRoll^1-a:Snare , b:HiHat

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Songwriter/Renaissance Man
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