American Songwriter January/February 2011 Amateur Lyric Contest

Enter for your chance to have your lyrics printed in American Songwriter magazine. One of the four finalists will also be chosen for American Songwriter’s one-page Q&A feature in the coinciding issue. The First Place winner also receives a Martin DCX1E acoustic-electric cutaway guitar and a legendary Shure SM58 Microphone, and four sets of Elixir® Strings (you choose flavor and gauge) and one Elixir® Guitar Cable.

The Jan/Feb 2011 contest winner will still be eligible for our 2010 Grand Prize package, which includes a trip to Nashville, Tennessee (includes one round-trip travel ticket), a “Dream Co-Writing Session” with veteran Music Row hit songwriter JIM LAUDERDALE, and a recording of the new song with a professional demo company.

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  1. Ten Thousand Reasons
    words and music by Kenny Shore, 2009

    You’re wonderful, that’s one
    your big brown eyes that’s two
    you’re good to me, that’s three
    and I’m so lucky you’re in love with me
    you’re adorable that’s four
    with you I’m so alive, that’s five
    you’re sexy and that’s six
    and you even like my politics

    there’s 10,000 reasons that I’m in love with you
    and every one of them like an arrow shoots me through
    I’m so lucky we’re together it’s true
    cause there’s 10,000 reasons I’m in love with you

    you’re sentimental, that’s seven
    you communicate, that’s eight
    you’re sweet and kind, that’s nine
    and I’m so lucky just to call you mine
    your tender skin, that’s ten
    you’re loving and that’s eleven
    we get along so well, that’s twelve
    and it’s so good I’ve been pinching myself

    there’s 10,000 reasons that I’m in love with you
    and every one of them like an arrow shoots me through
    I’m so lucky we’re together it’s true
    cause there’s 10,000 reasons I’m in love with you

    bridge
    well I could go on and on from now to the end of time
    but I believe you get the idea that I’m so glad you’re mine

    there’s 10,000 reasons that I’m in love with you
    and every one of them like an arrow shoots me through
    I’m so lucky we’re together it’s true
    cause there’s 10,000 reasons I’m in love with you

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