Week 8 - "Mutt Sander's Brother"

Lyrics:

Ab Gb Db Cb

Mutt Sanders was a good kid.
And people liked the things he did.
Mutt didn't do that well in school
but when you're a football star you don't have to follow the rules.

The first Sanders son could never lose
But his little brother could never quite fill his shoes.
And so I asked him, "Is Mutt too big for you?"
He said, "That may be, but what are you gonna do?"

You know that Mighty Mutt is like no other,
but you don't know what it's like to be his brother.
You know that Mighty Mutt is like no other,
but you don't know what it's like to be his brother.

You know, Mutt's brother never had a name.
And it was really quite a shame.
But what kind of places can you really go?
When you spend your whole life in a shadow?

You know that Mighty Mutt is like no other,
but you don't know what it's like to be his brother.
You know that Mighty Mutt is like no other,
but you don't know what it's like to be his brother.

[Organ solo]
Db (Gb-Db)
Cb (Fb-Cb)
Db (Gb-Db)
Eb (Db/Eb)

Mutt's brother knew he'd never win the game.
He knew he'd live up to his brother's fame.
So he decided to leave one day.
He didn't say good-bye but he never really knew Mutt anyway.

You know that Mighty Mutt is like no other,
but you don't know what it's like to be his brother.
You know that Mighty Mutt is like no other,
but you don't know what it's like to be his brother.

You know that Mighty Mutt is like no other,
but you don't know what it's like to be his brother.
You know that Mighty Mutt is like no other,
but you don't know what it's like to be his brother.

This song is based on the unseen character of Mutt Sanders from one of my favorite movies - Dead Poets Society. The video shows the story of Knox Overstreet who is mistaken for Mutt Sanders' brother at a party where he begins his pursuit of Chris Noel, the girlfriend of football star Chet Danburry.

The chord changes are pretty simple and repetitive, most of the variety being provided by the Rhodes electric piano sound generated by my RD-600 keyboard. I experimented with the noise reduction feature on Audacity, which really cleaned up the vocals and also helped the clarity of the audio clips from the movie.