Now I've been playin guitar for a long long time
Picked it up when Dylan was in his prime
But I didn't get much better til I learned to shape chord tensions
The mangled way my fingers moved I can't even mention

Thanks to my new teacher I've been movin right along
Can work my way through fancy jazz, not just simple songs
But when my teacher asked me why I play the guitar
It stopped me... and I realized how I've come this far

There's two things happenin when the sound is tight
Some of it's in the left hand, some of it's in the right
Put em together and you got a pretty awesome brew
But before we go there, what does each hand do?

The left hand shapes and the left hand shifts
The left hand braces and the left hand grips
It walks and it runs and it slides and it slips
And when I channel Elvis it goes right to my hips

The left hand slips and the left hand slides
It wiggles and it jiggles and it glosses and it glides
You see the left hand shapes the way we listen and rock
Be it Woody or Django or BB or Bach

Q: Stevie, what about the right hand? What's it do?
A: The right hand? You askin about the right hand?
Q: Mhmmm

You get to...
Strike it and strum it finger it and thumb it
Drive it and drum it 'n pick it while you hum it

Feather it and flick it punctuate and pick it
Catch it and kick it syncopate and trick it

You can...
Touch it and tickle it walk it and wiggle it
goose it and giggle it juice it and jiggle it

Strum it and stroke it punch it and poke it
Chop it and choke it punish and provoke it

Catch it and scratch it ratchet up and snatch it
Attach it and patch it 'n make it scream like batshit

You see the right hand answers what the left hand creates
And the left hand fits into the right hand's pace
When you put them together on a fine guitar
You got yourself a one-person orchestra

The left hand moves around the right hand makes the sound

The left hand does the walkin the right hand does the talkin

The left hand does the melody the right hand does the felony

The left hand tries to manage the right hand does the damage