I had one of those days, and after getting a too-late dinner, sat down to try to get my head into writing a song. lt wasn't happening, so I went over to the #fakeit challenge and copied Elaine DiMasi's lyrics and chords. After looking up the G/A, and playing through the chords, I tweaked them just a bit. The most dramatic change was using Dm7 instead of F--but when I was younger, and could not play bar chords, I used Dm7 as a cheater's F, so that doesn't seem like a stretch to me.

This is just me and my guitar; below is the footnote about what the song came to mean to me as I sung it. But it is a footnote--I suggest listening to the song first.

I'm not sure who the POV character of this story is. Perhaps a historian or anthropologist documenting one of the many disasters, natural or manmade, that are a part of our story, as a species. There have been too many of both, and most of the manmade ones were deliberately covered up in the hopes that the dead would be forever forgotten. Well, these ghosts, at least, someone is remembering, and doesn't think they are inconsequential at all.

#folk #acoustic #sad

inconsequential ghosts Words and chords by Elaine DiMasi Set to music as part of the #fakeit challenge, Sept 9 2026

Fmaj7 G* inconsequential ghosts; small ghosts Fmaj7 G/A ghosts that cling to legs of tables Fmaj7 G* mediant ghosts - sulky ghosts Fmaj7 Em Dm7 ghosts who'd haunt new statuettes if they could

G Cmaj7 Am racing shades have made my head a schoolyard Dm Em hiding, tagging, taunting spirits Dm Asus2 make my soul hard...

Fmaj7 G* never-married ghosts; winding ghosts Fmaj7 G/A ghosts that wring a whispered fable from my memory Fmaj7 G* quisling ghosts: silly ghosts. Fmaj7 Em7 Dm7 ghosts to sweep up after, haunting empty schoolrooms

G Cmaj7 Am these racing shades have made my head a schoolyard Dm Em7 Dragging, lagging, cranky spirits

G Cmaj7 Am sleepy shades who’ll never leave the schoolyard Dm7 Em7 never graduating, never growing Asus2 this seems - too hard