You look out the window and the creek is swelling. Slowly crossing the lawn and heading up the driveway.... Time to get the lawnmower to higher ground. TODAY IT’S GONNA RAIN - Key C G Today it’s gonna…

This song is just what it is and says what it says. It's where I am and where my hopes lie. It all just happens to fit into a song... WHEN PEGGY COMES HOME - G When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away The floor will be swept…

My motto is INWARD THRU THE FOG. One day about a month ago, Laura 'Taylor' Whitfield told me I should, "write that song." Thinking back on a fog-bound night in California, I wrote it. Norman Pilcher, a friend from Texas, and I were headed north…

I've been told that drowning is a dreamy way to go. THE ANGELS CRIED "NO!" He lived high on the mountain top He lived there with his love He tumbled to the valley deep When she gave him a shove And when he hit the valley deep It must…

The drug companies make up diseases so I can too. This is somewhere between Sixteen Tons and Coal Tattoo. I don't mean as good a song. I mean the subject... COAL FEVER Key D D D sus D D D sus D When I got the fever I was eight years old…

People are dying every day in the street People are dying every day People are dying every day in the street Just for being people in the street Peace, when's it coming, coming for the people in the street Peace, you can sing it Sing it for the…

This is a recent recording of CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT I did for the BUDDIES CD called SigNature Songs. (C) 2008 Royal T Music

INFATUATION UNREQUITED Capo @ 3 in C C stepping down to B They say it's just infatuation Am Bass -G F I only wish it was true. F Fm C F G C Infatuation unrequited…

There was this biker bar called The 2500 Club. Just west of Sylvania on Belknap. On a sign outside it says, "The best little biker bar in Texas." Guthrie and Rick and I played there long enough to get to feeling pretty much like family. EVERYBODY…

STRICKEN - James Michael Taylor Boy's Theme (River Phoenix) in River's last movie, DARK BLOOD. ...none the less, in my broken mind, some of the false hope leaks thru... Key D capo @ 2 in C I've been C stricken. I've been pierced…