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…

FRUSTRATED ARTIST He was a frustrated artist trying to sell his pictures on the street. He was a frustrated artist never selling quite enough to eat, so, he overcompensated for the lack of compensation for the pictures that he drew…

DIAMONDS AND WATER You wear diamonds on your fingers You wear diamonds on your ears and you wear diamonds on your necklace You wear diamonds to the party You wear diamonds to the banquet You wear diamonds to the opera But I’ll take a…

"Is one dead baby worth all this sorrow?" "Gotta get outta bed if you're going to make history." Scenes from John Steinbeck's book, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE. "There's something going on out in California and I'd like to know what it is." Preacher…

Palmdale, California. 1950. 15th Street East. CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS MEMORIES Take me back to California on that sunny Christmas morn. Christmas there was different on those Mojave Desert nights No snow and not much money for sharp clothes…

PROLOG I was born in California. I was raised in California. To me, the world was California. Evrything else was some strange place. One place I knew about was Tennessee, where my mom grew up. I heard stories about her dad being a miner…

HOEDOWN Hey now. Hoe now. Hey now. Hoe now. Chop that cotton. row now. Oh. Oh. ...two, three, four. Hoe now. Hey now. What you got to say, now? Tell me what you said. What’s in your pretty head now. Swing your partner. Oh. Allemande right…

BIG FAT HORSE I wish I had a big fat horse. Corn to feed him on. Pretty little girl to say at home. Feed him when I’m gone. Wish I had a big fat horse... I wish I had a mountain top to look out to the sea I wish I had a mountain top to…

NEW DAY Key A A E A E In the morning when she gets me up A E D E Pours some wake up in my coffee cup A D E A (D A E) She opens the window…

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