Apologies to Mark Knopfler, who said in an interview: “I will always cross the street, to a window of guitars”, but who, as far as I know, has not used the phrase in a song. Yet.”
In the window of guitars
You can see the price of dreams
A Stratocaster to the stars
In a red and silver gleam
Epiphones are made in China
Gibsons in the USA
Fenders can come from anywhere
Depends on what you want to pay
My heart still skips a beat
The memories so sweet
I will always cross the street
To the window of guitars
They stand like signals from the past
Of what the future still could be
Old wood and steel designed to last
A dozen lifetimes easily
Chorus
Down at the crossroads there’s a place
Where souls are bought or traded in
I see the hope on every face
I see Robert Johnson’s grin
Chorus
(Many thanks to Jimmy Egypt’s in Great Western Road, Glasgow, for the pictures. I highly recommend the shop for both repairs and sales.)
Great wee song Tom. Thanks for the recommendation and for including my shop which seems like it partly inspired the song. See you on the inside of the window sometime! Jimmy Egypt 🎸👍
I had the same pain Tom. I can’t remember the name of the music shop in Perth, but I think it was on South Street and they had a black lacquer twin pickup Shaftesbury Les Paul copy in their window and I think it cost £98
After many months, I did eventually manage to beg, borrow and steal the money to buy it and that was the guitar that accompanied me on stage and in the back of a white Transit throughout my brief sojourn in rock ‘n’ roll.
I soon realised it had an action like the Forth Road Bridge and it was pretty bloody awful but having lusted after it for so long, it was hard to let it go in the end..