Capo @ 2 in D (E) Dropped D tuning Actually, it was almost two years. 1965-67. Leavenworth, Kansas U S Army prison. I played the organ at the daily Protestant chapel. Took dictation and typed letters for the Protestant chaplain. Wrote 2-page…

YOU - in C There's a place in my mind Where your face had a home Long before you walked into my life Before you were a known There's a note in my song That I knew fit somewhere Tho the journey was long I hoped I wouldn't be wrong…

THE ANGELS CRIED NO - capo @ 4 in Am Am Em - He lived high up on the mountain top He lived there with his love He tumbled to the valley deep F - When she gave him a shove And, when he hit the valley deep It must have broke his heart…

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…

LISA'S THUMBNAIL Lost in a tangle of words Her life is a shambles Her dreams are in tatters Her thots are a tangle of thorns Her wounds are internal Her smoke;e's for survival... (c) 2002 Royal T Music

IF If your heart must be broken let it be by beauty If in tears you be soakin' let it be by music If your silence must be ended let it be by laughter If your love must say good-bye let it be in death If your pockets must be empty…

Chance would rather be chained in her back yard than returned to the pound... Yes...Portland etc...

I can't remember her name. I saw her at Kerrville back in 2005. A little blond that always wore a leather cowboy had, played keys and wrote music for movies. (Someone remind me.) COULD SHE KNOW Could she know I think about her Thinking…

HURRY I'm not in a hurry I've got all day to get there You don't have to worry I learned my lesson out there I spent all night in Utah As I make Green River The chains banged on the exhaust Til she began to quiver Asphyxiation creates…

Off the coast of California where the dolphins jump the waves We stood and watched them from the cliffs above Until the sunlight went away Then we slept in the ancient shadows underneath the redwood trees…