The Mighty Bosco
The Mighty Bosco is a two-fer – its the first song, soup-to-nuts, that I have written in 20 years or so and its a little musical celebration of Bosco, the little terrier mix we got from a rescue in southern Indiana a week ago.
Bosco Dog came to live with us after we drove to Mooresville, IN to meet him at a rescue that had retrieved him a couple weeks earlier from a dog pound that that didn’t have a “no-kill” policy. As my friend Pete said, Bosco won the Dog Powerball. Many thanks to the Hope Haven Dog Rescue for doing what they do for all the creatures they have found homes for…
Archie the Big Orange Cat and little Bosco turn out to be good buddies. Today they passed out together in the dog bed while I struggled through a dozen or so takes before I got one that was passable, if imperfect. I have noticed that they seem forgiving of lapses in my playing.
The song is in a new tuning for me, I was futzing around with a big mahogany Taylor guitar and the song popped out of it in about 5 minutes. I tweaked things a little and figured out an ending and here’s what it ended up with a week or so later with a little practice.