SMART If I'm so smart, why are you telling me what to do? You say I'm smart as you times two If I'm so smart, won't you be quiet and let me think How did I get so lost, if I'm so smart? If I'm so smart, quit telling me to move along That…

(C) 2009 Royal T Music

EXPECTING - capo @ 1 in E I keep expecting to come home and find you here waiting for me And Time can't diminish the hopes in my heart or the ghosts in my dreams/sleep In the darkness and cold sometimes Winter forgets there's a Spring And…

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…

(C) 2009 Royal T Music

YOUR VOICE I hear your voice I go get my ladder Pull on my gloves Climb up to the gutter Where the leaves gather round Talk about the weather I hear your voice I dig out our blankets The 'lectric controller Your grand mother's quilt…

This is my Katrina song. THE NEW NEW ORLEANS WALTZ There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun It's been the ruin of many a boy And Lord knows I am one Storms may come and storms may go But the sun will always shine Unless…

24 HOURS When there ain't nobody listening A cry is just a sound When there ain't nobody watchin' A tear just wets the ground When nobody knows, nobody cares When the only girl that ever loved you Walks out the door and drives away…

One day Connie Ramsey called and let it slip that she was writing a rocking chair song. I thot that was a good subject for a song so I wrote one too. Rocking Chair Well, I got one on the porch and one in the den And just enough umph for…

Maybe some day I will have a Cds-worth of songs about "Hannah." She has crept into my writing life and is a treasure. A fellow word smith from a different universe: The planet of Broken Mirrors. Hanna is the name I use when I write about Shannon…