Black and grey guitar tattoo with two roses and a Music Forever banner on a lower leg, shaded in a realistic style.

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Guitar, roses and Music Forever banner

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A guitar body and neck sit at the centre of this design, with two shaded roses on either side and a curled banner across the lower half reading Music Forever. The linework is clean and the body of the guitar, roses and banner use soft grey shading to create depth. The tattoo is in black and grey only and fills the frame against a plain skin background.

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Nobody at the Bwlch café had heard of Dessie Marr until the snow closed the road and he walked in off the top with a guitar case across his back and a split in his boot. I was the one pouring tea. I remember because the urn was rattling like it did in a gale, and he set the case on my counter and said it was heavier than the hill.

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He stayed three nights. He played the same chord on an upturned crate by the stove, turning it over and over until the old shepherds stopped talking and just listened. On the second night he wrote two words on the back of a bus ticket and asked me to keep it safe. Music Forever, in capitals he pressed so hard the biro tore the card. I asked whether that was a promise or a warning. He laughed and said it was what the guitar said when nobody was listening.

When the pass opened he left before dawn. The guitar stayed, propped against the glass case beside the flapjacks, with a note saying he would be back for it in spring. Spring came and went. Autumn brought a woman from the valley town with his photograph and a van that smelt of diesel. She didn't take the guitar. She asked me to keep it, and I still tune it on quiet nights when the wind comes over the top and rattles the urn.

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