Written for my father.

David DeSoto is on the upright bass fiddle.

My party piece on acoustic guitar.

David DeSoto is on the upright bass fiddle.

My party piece on acoustic guitar.

The text on this track comes off a B-side from one of [Putnam Aldrich's](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putnam_Aldrich) (my great-grandfather) records. He was a harpsichordist, a professor at Stanford, a chain smoker, and apparently had a sense…