I hope you learn to play the guitar,
‘cause you can sing like angels sing.
I hope you learn that I mean every word I say,
someday.
I hope you learn to put your little fingers
in all the right places like you did on me.
You could make that guitar ring,
all night long.
I hope you learn to play it better than me.
That wouldn’t bother me at all.
As long as you’re happy my troubles seem so small.
That ain’t at all.
I hope you learn to play the guitar,
to play it straight from your soul.
I hope you play it when the days have got you down,
so down.
I hope you learn to wrap all your troubles
in a couple of chords. You could make your spirit soar.
Could do all that and more,
all night long.
I hope you take your show on the road.
Sing for all the pretty boys.
Tell them all about the way you broke my heart,
tore it apart.
I hope you learn to play the guitar
‘cause you can do anything.
Now that you’ve left me in the dust where I belong;
hear my song.
I hope you learn to make the moments matter
with a couple of notes. I know you’d get my vote
with a song that you wrote
about you and I.