I was going for a "Windham Hill" kind of vibe for this gentle guitar waltz.
Story behind the song
Martin Grand Concert acoustic guitar; main solo melody & ¾ time rhythm using a standard tuning.
TriplePlay guitar synth was used for the cello & violin voicings.
there have been expressions starting "right as ..." since medieval times, always in the sense of something being satisfactory, safe, secure or comfortable. An early example, quoted as a proverb as long ago as 1546, is right as a line. In that, right might have had a literal sense of straightness, something desirable in a line, but it also clearly has a figurative sense of being correct or acceptable. There’s an even older example, from the Romance of the Rose of 1400: “right as an adamant”, where an adamant was a lodestone or magnet.
Lots of others have followed in the centuries since. Right as my leg is from the seventeenth century — it’s in Sir Thomas Urquhart’s translation of Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Rabelais, published in 1664: “Some were young, quaint, clever, neat, pretty, juicy, tight, brisk, buxom, proper, kind-hearted, and as right as my leg, to any man’s thinking”. There’s right as a trivet from the nineteenth century, a trivet being a stand for a pot or kettle placed over an open fire; this may be found in Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers of 1837: “ ‘I hope you are well, sir.’ ‘Right as a trivet, sir,’ replied Bob Sawyer.” About the same time, or a little later, people were saying that things were as right as ninepence, as right as a book, as right as nails, or as right as the bank.
"Right as rain" may have first appeared at the very end of the nineteenth century, in Britain, where rainy weather is a normal fact of life, and indeed W.L. Phelps wrote, 'right as rain' must have been invented by an Englishman." in 1894 and yet again in 1909 “He looked, as himself would undoubtedly have said, ‘fit as a fiddle,’ or ‘right as rain.’ His cheeks were rosy, his eyes sparkling”.