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VIDEO - https://www.facebook.com/100001468692811/videos/1120270078888215/ https://www.facebook.com/true.taylor.3/videos/397153049918748 GHOST TOWN   capo @ 2 in C C Em F G C I…
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Leslie Young Sad song.

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THE TIDE POOLS OF CALIFORNIA capo @ 5 in C. 4/6 time…
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Bruce Balmer I like the parallel sixths in the backing vocals.

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I wrote this song with Lisa Aschmann. CAPO @ 3 Video - https://www.facebook.com/100001011201926/videos/1285714588695761/ HICKORY STIX Dm Am Billy Mac and Don McCray drive to work each dawn at six Down the mountain to the factory, makes…
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Tim Tandy Hickory Stix has always captivated me. Dang, I gotta start getting out to open mics again. Might even get the chance to sing that high harmony on the "oohs!"

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SLAUGHTER MOUNTAIN My mom’s dad was a coal miner. Her mother died of TB when she was a kid. When she was twelve, her dad, dying of black lung, slit his throat with a butcher knife. That left her with a cripple little brother to take care of…
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Rose Jeffus - I agree. (with Lane. "I declare this album your #1 compilation."

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WATERMELON WIND Capo @ 3 Key G On a (G) road outside of Brownsboro there’s a (Bm) watermelon stand Dm Dm - E All boarded and bedraggled, fallen signs peak thru the sand Am…
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Watermelon Wind is a good one too. Really inspiring images Lazarus Knight

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OH JIMMY capo @ 4 or 5 live C Am F G On page thirty of the yearbook he found a picture sweet A girl named Marie Angel, in school right down the street Dm walk down G He didn’t notice…
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Yes, it is obvious to anyone who actually listens to follow the story. The killer line ... the picture that finishes breaking what's left of the listener's heart is "but Jimmy bought the yearbook, and he hold it now and then". Lazarus Knight

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capo @ 4 Am - 3/4 time (starts on A) Am G Am G Am Last night I said Good bye to Rose but long ago I learned. The things that last we seldom know and think a bridge is burned. Bb…
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brush up on "Lest night I said goodbye to Rose" I know that's not exactly the title, but I think many people would like that song like I do. Lazareth Knight

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OH JIMMY capo @ 4 or 5 live C Am F G On page thirty of the yearbook he found a picture sweet A girl named Marie Angel, in school right down the street Dm walk down G He didn’t notice…
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Oh Jimmy rings of a certain kind of pain that you've captured perfectly. Lazarath Knight.

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SLAUGHTER MOUNTAIN My mom’s dad was a coal miner. Her mother died of TB when she was a kid. When she was twelve, her dad, dying of black lung, slit his throat with a butcher knife. That left her with a cripple little brother to take care of…
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Lane Beauvais By the power invested in me, I declare this album your #1 compilation.

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COWTOWN In a court yard down the alley There's a grave yard, weeds and litter Memories, undisturbed, await their doom Beneath the glitter of COWTOWN You take a building, old and crooked Long ago the life forsook it Paint it up and name…
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I was talking about the Wight Hotel, directly across the street from The White Elephant. The things you mention were going on when The Beer Garden 1st took over that rat hole between the Elephant and the steak house.

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Yeah, there's an "Indian" graveyard somewhere out there at the Stock Yards. COWTOWN Key Em Em C D Em In a courtyard down the alley there’s a graveyard…
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Tim Tandy This one really grabs me, Jim. I enjoy the "play like" aspect of the Stockyards District today, but I KNOW what was real and what wasn't. When I grew up in East Fort Worth in the 50's thru the 70's, the Stockyards were a working affair. Everyone downwind got the dust and rancid odors that were a mixture of cattle manure, blood and guts, and rendered fat. Get up close, and you added in the panicked sounds of cattle going up the ramps to slaughter. The buildings along E and W Exchange were mostly delapidated flop-houses, and I recall there were usually destitute men in soiled undershirts leaning out the upstairs windows smoking cigarettes and taking it all in. When the slaughterhouses shut down and the development folks took over, they neatly "packed up" the ambience of the historical "Hell's Half Acre" - gambling halls, saloons, cheap hotels, bordello's and the site of gunfights such as the famous Luke Short/Jim Courtright affair - which had been razed in the 60's and replaced with the Water Gardens and Convention Center as an act of "urban renewal", and "relocated" them to the Stockyards. I really don't object to all of it, but just wish they were a bit more open about what's shit and what's Shinola, ya know? All the tourists crowd E Exhange at the appointed hour and hoot and holler and excitedly REAL Wild West every day when the "cattle drive" occurs. Oh, well, as Bruce Willis' character in "Die Hard" liked to say, "Yippi-ki-yay, MF!"

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was a Texan. Quannah Parker was the son born to Cynthia Parker, a white girl, stolen by Comanche raiders who grew up to be the wife of the chief. Quannah, in turn became the leader of his tribe. Eventually, Cynthia returned to her people. This…
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Quanah is my fav. it triggered feelings between my son and me, the question of when are you enough to claim your ancestors? Tears did flow on listening.Beautifully performed by Barbara and beautifully written.

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When this happened I couldn't get home before I had the song half written. What a lonely feeling. NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Key of G G Em There’s a bird in the gutter that…
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Sad, and that was 11 years ago. How does it feel now ... like more of the same? It seems to me like your not just accepted but held in high esteem at the places where I've seen you perform. Lazarus Knight

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Gramma's Shampoo Gramma's shampoo is washing my hair And I hope it will notice that gramma's not there It's the kind that knows just what to do Says it right there on the bottle, shampoo "Automatically adjusts to your hair's cleansing needs…
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This little miracle is a performance art piece, in addition to being a song track on an album. I can see this as an interlude in a dramatic stage play. Highly creative and outside the box here. And those harmonies are so tight you couldn't get a sliver between them! Amazling!

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The lyrics of this song, as they pertain to plot, are my exact memory of the event. I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…
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Terry Rasor I remember those daze Michael, y’all were awesome and I’m glad and proud to have known you all and have you at my Raz On The Braz festival so many years ago! Love ya my friend!

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Key of G G C G C G I'd be glad to let you love me C if you'll just hold me for a while D You could take your time and linger C G I…
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Roland Brown Sorry to hear about Barbara. Texas Water was as good as you say. I’m thinking about adding “I’ll Be Glad to Let You Love Me” to our band’s set list.

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HE BALLAD OF THEDA NELL Capo 3 Am Am G On the shoulder of an eagle where the sparrow builds her nest Dm Am Texas town…
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One of the beautiful things about artists and songwriting is taking “fact & fiction”, and whipping them together in ways outsiders usually don’t know which is which or possibly nothing at all. This is something I’ve always admired regarding your craft! - Scotty Lee Shuffield…Tyler, TX.

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THE DUST ON THE PIANO Capo at 2 in Dm Dm C (2) He used to play piano because it made her smile Dm C (2) She could be in any room. He'd sit and play a while F C Bb (G)Dm He didn't need to see her. He knew she loved it so He'd sit and…
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Joe Brunelle - I like this, Jim

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THE DUST ON THE PIANO Capo at 2 in Dm Dm C (2) He used to play piano because it made her smile Dm C (2) She could be in any room. He'd sit and play a while F C Bb (G)Dm He didn't need to see her. He knew she loved it so He'd sit and…
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Lazarus Knight That's a really good song. It resonates with truth.

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THE DUST ON THE PIANO Capo at 2 in Dm Dm C (2) He used to play piano because it made her smile Dm C (2) She could be in any room. He'd sit and play a while F C Bb (G)Dm He didn't need to see her. He knew she loved it so He'd sit and…
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Tim Tandy Brilliantly haunting! Like a character in a Hank Williams song, you're telling a poignant, sad story, but NOT seeking pity.

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