It’s a small town. Woodlake, California. East side of the San Joaquin Valley. 14 miles from where all those “Lindsey” olives you see on your grocery store shelves come from. The Woodlake Echo, says, “In the foothills of the Sequoias”. FOOTHILLS…

Sometimes it's hard to figure out what just happened. And then again it's sometimes hard to figure out something that happened years ago. (To answer the question by the commenter, that's all me and my little self all alone in the basement…

....another Peggy dream. She tiptoes to my room She leans over my bed And she kisses me I leave my doors unlocked so she can come to me When she misses me And I pretend that I'm asleep But that's not easy When she kisses me...

This version was an effort to make it into a country song... an "effort." Florencia Di Concilio is a composer who lives in Paris. Among other things, she writes music for movies. One of the movies she wrote music for is DARK BLOOD, the last…

Remembering... (c) 1966 Jimmy Rogers (C) 2012 Royal T Music

I wrote this song after planting and fertalizing a crop of sudan grass just to have the sun shine down with no relief on it for 100 days and no rain. We, Texas Water, were heading home one night AFTER A GIG at Gringo's in Grapevine when the…

Ain't No Nothin' 'bout Christmas Ain't no nothin' 'bout Christmas Ain't already been said Ain't no nothin' 'bout Christmas Ain't already in my head Mmmmmmm Christmas Ain't no songs about Christmas Ain't already been sung Ain't no fancy…

CHRISTMAS IN MY HEART Dear Mom and Dad, I know you worry. I'll bet you're tired But, I know you're thinking of me Your letters keep me inspired When the Time comes and I can't leave Sand in my boots. Sores on my feet I'll stand the…

CHRISTMAS@#$%& I don't want to seem obnoxious I always try to be polite But there are some things that bother me That keep me up at night And I ain't no damned atheist and I ain't no Hebrew And I ain't one to hold my tongue when the thots…

The story our song that night (Songwriter night, Tuesday, at The Post, where we would divide up into groups and have a new song ready to perform in one hour) was about railroads and a girl from San Antone. When I got home I had the Tejas/Chaos…