SPOONS I threw her spoons outside my window I put her shoes outside my door I don't care which way the winds blow I don't want 'em any more All I know is when the day is thru And the nights are long I still dream of you. I can search…

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…

About "If I'd Been A Lutheran *" Dodie told me not to use her real name. C Csus C Csus C Csus C If I had been a Lutheran I might have married Csus Dodie Harris…

YOU GOTTA TO BE CAREFUL WITH LOVE - Capo @ 3 in C C G C You gotta be careful with Love F C There’ll be days the sun will shine G…

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…

THE TIDE POOLS OF CALIFORNIA capo @ 5 in C. 4/6 time…

DEAR PEGGY Capo 3 in Am A bass stepping A G F G Dear Peggy,I thot you'd like to know That blue tile in our bathroom you said would have to go I replaced with the slate that we bought at Home Depot mmmmm mmmmm Dear Peggy, The heat has…

This is my mom's story. Lula Teeters got off to a pretty rough start. She finally turned it all lose last November. May she rest in peace. SISTER SAID Daddy was a miner. He worked himself to death Company said he killed himself, but…

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…