The Key of D

Will you stop hurting in the key of D?
Let's go play in the key of A,
And let the fiddle tune a merry note.
The E's will ease,
And the fours will be D's,
Instead of the G's,
Which now, will be the seven.

But that key of D is killing me,
All downbeat, no up, as they say.
It drones dully out by rote,
When some other keys
Would do as they please,
And be what they be
Short of heaven.
Hell, I'd settle for a simple E flat.

-jenn long