LISA MAKES APPOINTMENTS Capo @ 3 in C C stepping down G Lisa makes appointments for her friends to come and cry She’s got a comfy shoulder and an empathetic sigh Am. F. Am. F Lisa’s…

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…

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…

CALIFORNIA Capo @ 4 in C/Am I’m (Am) going back to California A little place in the San (E) Joaquin (Am, stepping down A G F# F E) Where the back pasture builds To Sierra foothills And Kaweah tumbles down cool and clean I’m going back…

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…