PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA 1951 Palmdale, California 1951. Pretty yellow chickens hatching in the sun Fertilizer spreader flings its fecal load. I climb up to watch in the trees along the road. Little chickens, running, pecking, darting, so…

In 1951 I was eight years old but it's all like yesterday. The tumbleweeds and the horny toads. Flying kites so far into the desert air that I couldn't see them. Palmdale, California, 1951 Pretty yellow chickens hating in the sun Fertilizer…

SLOOP JOHN B - REVISITED My 9/11 song Come on the Sloop John B, my grandfather and me Blindly sailing. Hopes are failing. Storm hangs o're the sea Guns a-blazing! Blaze amazing. Pants down around my feet Captain, he got drunk. Just sits…

THE GIFT - key C An architect in Bakersfield gave him a gift of wine Napa Valley, California, famous for the vine When the grape is coupled with the peach, the promise is divine But he would never pull the cork as he alone would dine…

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…

TROJAN capo @ 3 in C (C) When mommy and daddy live two thousand miles from each other it’s hard on the (G) kid He can’t hold both their hands but he must stand between them and you know it’s for nothing he (C) did And you (F) know it’s…

My buddy Lu Mitchell went the way of a song yesterday... Sad. MISSING LU - C I will miss you, now that you’re gone I will miss you, as I carry on I held your hand up a step or two Now I will miss you. I will miss you There are those…

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THAT CLOSE TO CRYING - a Waltz in G I'm THAT CLOSE TO CRYING all the time. Just the mention of TOGETHER AGAIN and I cross that line But lately I'm learning to act/look like I'm fine But, I'm THAT CLOSE TO CRYING all the time I'm THAT…

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…