© 1971
This is one of my favorite songs because I wrote it while working as a children’s ski instructor at Anzere, Switzerland. NOTE: kids are born knowing how to ski. They didn’t need my help which is the reason why none of the professional Swiss ski instructors wanted the job. It’s also the reason I took my guitar to the job. During my lunch break I would sit in the snow on top of a ridge that overlooked a deep and wide valley east of the top-of-the-mountain gondola. It was a great place to play guitar and sing because the entire snow-lined valley not only resonated every note I played and sang, but it also seemed to have one sympathetic note that seemed to last longer than all other notes. Google notes that, “The best places for Alpine-style yodeling are those with an echo.” Google also discusses ‘Sympathetic resonance’ but nothing about the alpine equivalent to musical intonation. But I wasn’t interested in yodeling anyway. Instead, I enjoyed singing a note, then ‘sliding’ my voice down to the sympathetic note. It was so cool I wrote a song that used my newfound technique.
It doesn’t matter where we go together; anywhere for me will do
It doesn’t matter if we’re close as toes inside a shoe
It doesn’t matter if the telephone rings for an hour or two
It doesn’t matter ‘cause I love you
It doesn’t matter if you’re gone awhile; say to me you’ll come home soon
It doesn’t matter if the sun decides to be our moon
It doesn’t matter if we sleep all day and talk the whole night through
It doesn’t matter ‘cause I love you
It doesn’t matter when the years have fallen one by one
Petals fall from flowers in the sun
It doesn’t matter if your mama loves your daddy more than you
It doesn’t matter ‘cause I love you
It doesn’t matter ‘cause I love you
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