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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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Candy Davis I love that album. You gifted it to me a long time ago, and I still think about those hapless men becoming ill and dying, making hickory handled hardware. And "Help!' raises so many emotions in me--that people would just stand on the shore and do nothing while you risked your life alone to save that boy. All of the songs on Slaughter Mountain are ones that are so well written and so memorable!

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COAL FEVER Key D D D sus D D D sus D When I got the fever I was eight years old Mamma called the doctor. So the story is told G…
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Great song as always, good sir.

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Randy Brown and I did a little co-write this evening and this is what we came up with... I MISTOOK IT FOR THE MOON Capo @ 2 Key D (Play in C positions) I was coasting across West Texas/Had my top down, it was late at night I caught a coyote…
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Wow. That is a good one. Michelle Soto

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My mom is 91 and still holding on. The people that help her make it thru each day have learned that there is no sense in arguing with her about who they are or when it is...thus the song. MAMA HAS A TIME MACHINE key - Em Mama has a…
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You really broke me down on that one. It's like you have been looking into my living room. It took me a second to remember your names is James also. - James Bucannan

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Worshiping at an abandoned alter... Let my breaths be as long as her legs Let my breaths be as smooth as her back Let my breaths be as cool as her hips Let my heart be as still as her tongue Let my mind be as bright as her skin Let my…
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Haunting voices and guitar work. Nuno

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FOREVER She stares out the window. That look in her eye How deep can her heart know life's passing her by The radio's playing. She holds back a tear A song she's forgotten Holds back the years...Forever And she says, "I wish I 'd loved…
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The line: "The window's a mirror when it's dark outside..." Wow! Nuno

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FOREVER She stares out the window. That look in her eye How deep can her heart know life's passing her by The radio's playing. She holds back a tear A song she's forgotten Holds back the years...Forever And she says, "I wish I 'd loved…
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Gerald Ray - I love this.

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But the Sun I close the curtains To shut out the darkness I shut the window To keep out the cold But the Sun is shining Somewhere, I know. (C) 2020 Royal T Music
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very Neil! keep it up! great!!

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Well, it's like I went down town last night to see Guthrie playing with Ray and I came home with a song. NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Capo @ 1 in G There’s a bird in the gutter that’s so sound asleep He can’t hear the music that’s sweeping…
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"Nobody Knows Me". Your voice is so different in that song. Deeper.NUNO

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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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NAAD -Just read your lyrics and liatend.to the son...w Very beautiful, very moving...beautiful how you he'd on the rhyme scheme an dmade it work...so love the slave t rhymes as well...they're my favorite...super smooth transitions....tell me a bit about the inclusion of you garden reflections in the middle of the song...counter point? Balancing urgency and reality? Love, love, love thisnone...will.ha r to listen again. "tell me a bit about the inclusion of you garden reflections in the middle of the song...counter point?" it all ties in when I relate it to the weather, "...there's lightning and thunder...but this summer is a wash...what we really need is rain." The reason the river was up that day was because there had been so much rain in the previous days, they were lowering the dam to lower the water lever in the lake that fed this river.

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Refuge into the imagination: Is it crazy? Is it survival? Is desire to survive crazy? THERE SHE WAS Key - G 102811 G She'd been gone for three years now so he'd been on the road Playing every truck stop bar and every song he…
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Dang dude, I love it…🤠❤️🤠…just got on this site and read then listened to you sing this song…I’m gonna be 49 next month and just reading it pulled me in to listen to it…I’m a total ROOKIE…but I have a voice and blues everything that I’d kill this into a song… BUT NOT just one song I’d make three songs out of this whole thing…so the first two songs…I’d leave no ending…only to have people waiting and wanting more..to later on the radio station would get so many requests the DJays… would be forced into playing the 2nd and third part to get to the climax… of a brilliant Ending❤️❤️🤠🤠❤️❤️😎😎.. feel free to reach out to me through this dam computer stuff..HELL JAMIE H…… $$$ living in Baycity Michigan…EMPATH you later.zz

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Refuge into the imagination: Is it crazy? Is it survival? Is desire to survive crazy? THERE SHE WAS Key - G 102811 G She'd been gone for three years now so he'd been on the road Playing every truck stop bar and every song he…
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Cory Michael -I listened to the song and think you should definitely sing it next week. You're a hell of a story teller, James!

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One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield. I said to myself, "Sweet Rain." I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…
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Cindy Grayson James Michael Taylor beautiful song

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GRAMMA’S SHAMPOO Capo @ 3 Key Bm7 Bm7 Am7 Bm7 Am7 GRAMMA’S SHAMPOO is washing my hair G D C Bm7 And I hope it will notice that…
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Pamela Steuber Anderson James Michael Taylor I love this song. Thank you.

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I never sing this song the same two times in a row. The lyric below is pretty close to how I sing it now. Listening again, this is an awful version of this song... I have my recording machine working again...I must redo this. I PLAY C…
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Like most or all of your songs, there is always something really stands out and pays off big time. That last verse (or is it the last two) is absolutely, powefully emotion packed. And it is somewhat Vonnegut like in that so much is conveyed so precisely and with elegant simplicity. "... in the dream we left behind" - my God man, it's pure genius. Not the first two times I heard the song, but the first time I "listened" to it, I thought WHAT WAS THAT! And the it sunk in.

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I wrote this at my dad's urging. He likes it. We sing it together. I have YouTube Video of it up. EULOGY He grew up in Clinton, Oklahoma Red dirt back yard, Gramma's place Honey suckle in a dust bowl Life as hard as limestone lace…
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heartfelt, sincere. i dig the banjo and mouthharp

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I have a new love Of course she doesn’t know How can a work of art Know when lovers come and go And when the artist is the art! My eyes are the eyes of the beholder And my eyes are the eyes of the world… …when the artist is the art…
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That is beautiful, James. Thank you. Rachel Eastman

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OUT THERE SOMEWHERE Her eyes were blurry. Her face was painted Her hair was dyed black. Her purse was heavy She said something. I asked her to repeat it She said, “Stop the car. I thot I could trust you.” I pulled it over and I waited…
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Honking horn was exactly how I thought you would end this song

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CATTAILS AND BUTTERFLIES capo @ 4 in C C G repeat There was a field around the corner And a stream flowed cross the field There were cat tails in the summer time And monarch butterflies And tadpoles sprouting wings E…
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504 Hathaway, San Luis Obispo, California. 1954

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"Somewhere between the stumbling and the falling..." SOMEWHERE G capo @ 2 Somewhere between the summer and the winter The leaves between the tree tops and the fall Somewhere between my heart and circled letters Somewhere between it…
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Absolutely beautiful!

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