Success! so I thought I'd revisit...
I posted on this thread a month ago when was first created, but have another song to add to the list that worked magic for me Friday...
Granted, I've been seeing this girl for a few months now but we don't get to see each other too often - a couple times a month. Anyway Friday night we had a late coffee together and finished just before 10:00. I told her I would bring my acoustic (she's been playing piano for 18 years, so she 'understands' music - I'll throw in here also that I play by ear - but cheat with tab every now and then).
So we leave Ruby Tuesday's and go to a park by the lake. It was dark and we sit down on a picinic tabletop. She asks if I can play in the dark ... Dunno - never tried. Right, so I proceed to tell her that I've been learning a new song this week, and the guitar is tuned for this particular song, so I'd play it for her before tuning back up.
The song: The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin. I found a tab that is PERFECT!
Anyway, I played the song (no singing yet). SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY FLOORED. She said "It's beautiful" and that she had no idea I played so well (uh, she has a CD of mine). The next two hours went by like 5 minutes. Her IL has been raised several notches... was high already (No, you get no details about kissing/hugging/snuggling/fvcking yada yada - I'm too old for posting that stuff), but the next morning she bought me breakfast, made several different comments about a variety of subject relating to us (too detailed to post), etc. Today, she saw me online and asked me a question. I answered and immediately asked her the same thing back, then I asked her why she asked... Her answer: "No particular reason...just to know your likes and dislikes".
I'm not attribuiting it all to that one song, but things are falling into place nicely now.
If anyone's been trying to learn The Rain Song but gotten frustrated because they can't find the right tab, let me know and i'll post the link. It's tough if you don't know the right tuning.
YES!!!