Denis Lehane: Have yourselves a tuneful Christmas

There is nothing worse than listening to a lousy guitar player, particularly at Christmas time. For he is the fellow who can ruin any gathering of sweet sounding carol singers.

To my mind, the lousy guitar player should be strung up, preferably by his own strings, somewhere high on a large Christmas tree. And he should hang there as a warning to all that poor mastery of the guitar will not be tolerated. Hang him up by his G string, and good riddance.

Anyhow, tis well versed I am with regards to the lousy guitar player for I thought I was one myself, before I discovered that it was not me at all only my guitar that was at fault.