Just having some fun with a great old song.

This story is a poem sent to me by Lesley Sawyer from a blog on her MySpace site and I put it to music and am posting it so she can hear it and maybe see if it's alright. We don't know who wrote the poem. If anybody does please tell me. j mt

When I was a kid, my dad was the preacher at the Church of Christ in Tehachapi, California. We lived in Palmdale, so we'd get up early on Sunday mornings, pile the 5 of us into our 1950 Chevy coupe and head up thru Lancaster and Mojave, over the…

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…

CHERRY LAUREL - James Michael Taylor - 081111 Dm C B A There’s nothing quite so slow to grow as a cherry laurel tree A fingerling beneath an old oak canopy Presented as a volunteer, that creek bank west of town One hundred yards from our…

CHERRY LAUREL - James Michael Taylor - 081111 Dm C B A There’s nothing quite so slow to grow as a cherry laurel tree A fingerling beneath an old oak canopy Presented as a volunteer, that creek bank west of town One hundred yards from our…