Things add up and a song comes along to tell you what it all adds up to. Every time I try to pin down why I wrote this and to whom I wrote it it just slips out of my grasp again and smiles. The way Shannon Elizabeth used "you" in her poems always…

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…

A CASKET AND A ROSE capo @ 2 Am There's nothing quite as slow to grow Than a cherry laurel tree A fingerling that grows beneath That old oak canopy Presented as a volunteer On that creek bank south of town One hundred yards from our…

400 BULLETS 400 guns. 400 bullets. 400 babies in the grave. You got your New Pearl Harbor Now it’s time for a new Passover. 400 guns 400 guns. 400 bullets. 400 babies in the grave. Buy your $10,000 dog One bad steak and he’s a…

FALSE FLAG If you fall I will pick you up If you're thirsty i will give you a drink If you're hungry I will feed you If you're lonely I will hold you If you're slow I will slow down If you're fast I will hurry But I won't salute your…

Just thinking about Happiness. Thinking about how she said she was leaving because she wanted to be happy. HAPPY Key - C walking down... Happy is the anvil as the hammer strikes the blade A fleeting spark that fades as the memory is made…

Remembering... (c) 1966 Jimmy Rogers (C) 2012 Royal T Music

OCCUPY 0112 It's a highland I call my land It's an island in the sun No matter how you measure it It's always number one If I had a house to occupy I'd occupy my wish But to have a house to occupy I must defy the rich We buy the…

THE GIRL HERE IN MY HEART If anybody sees her will you tell her that I love her She might not remember. Now she loves another If you ever see her you will recognize her The girl here in this picture. She's the girl here in my heart If…

After reading the book: The Immortal Life of Henryetta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Google HeLa cells and you'll get the whole story. The most famous cell line EVER. RUN HeLa RUN Her name was Henryetta Lacks but she never knew Her family finally…