I need to dig around on my old computer and find the guitar tab for this one. I listen to it now—O Donald Fagan, Master of the Impossibly Errant Minor 9—and wonder how I ever managed to figure out the chords. It must have taken hours, continually skipping back five seconds, back five seconds, to try the chord change one more time. To be young and an idiot with my time once more.

Download “Maxine”, originally popularized and written by Donald Fagen.

It’s all gone now, I couldn’t play this song with a gun to my head. I still really like it though, even if the idea of a woman being named Maxine is so 70s. I mean could you ever? There’s also a Dean Martin song named “Susan” that makes me roll my eyes. Sorry, women with unattractive names. I just don’t buy it.