James Michael Taylor's listening history
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…
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THE TIDE POOLS OF CALIFORNIA
capo @ 5 in C
When you’re born in California
There are things you take for granted
The sunshine and the desert and
The forests, and bears and the beach
In the tide pools of California
In the memories of…
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A friend asked me,
"Don't you have any happy songs?"
So I wrote one!
IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY capo @ 3
C F C
If it makes you happy I will tie your shoe
C…
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Jackie Kelly sat next to me in 7th grade. She was great at diagramming sentences. I would catch up with her on the way to school and we would walk silently. She was buck-toothed and brash. I really liked her. I carved "JK" with a safety pin in…
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Written for the movie THE STONE RAFT
Que Paso capo @ 5 in G
Am/G x3
G G bass Em Am bass G bass F#
The man on the radio said we are falling apart
Am bass G bass F# G
Falling apart…
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THE HAND OF GOD
I wrote this for a movie Keith Kjornes and I were making.
I don't remember the name of it.
I was trying to write a song as bad as the movie.
I think I succeeded.
The hand of god reached down and made Adam
He said…
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PRETTY THING
She hears the termites in the wall while he's sleeping
He can't even hear the phone from outside
She smells the cigarette from neighbors out smoking
He's got a nose but best she figures it died
She likes the bed made up but…
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AFTER WE'RE BROKEN
After we're broken we will turn from a fight
Ask what it pays and not if it's right
Reaching for balance while falling from grace
Fall from the light without losing our face
After we're broken we know it's too late…
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