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…

(C) 2019 Royal T Music

DELI When they close down the deli at Walmart They discount the mashed potaters About 10, that's when I go in Sometimes a little later...

From a poem by Pete Thompson. CALEB’S REPRIEVE The crowd is restless/It’s a quarter to noon They’re here for a hangin’/And it better be soon Sun beating down/The law’s not in town Hangman’s dirty boots tappin' slow… Dragged from…

Since my ear found your voice And my eye found your face All the sights and the noise Will never erase The song I started singing The song I sing today... (C) 2019 Royal T Music I wrote this about Violet.

THE SWING When I was a child we'd drive 200 miles To Gramma’s in the Spring I’d hop out of the car. Run to her back yard. Gramma had a swing The times have changed... And when I became a dad I took all the rope I had And tied it to…

PERFECT When I said, “She’s perfect,” I meant she’s Perfect for me You might not see her that Perfectly When 1 and 1 is 2 and 2 and 1 is three, that’s math and on math we all agree But Perfect has a sliding scale on which we all find our…

The lyrics of this song, as they pertain to plot, are my exact memory of the event. I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…

I wrote this song with Lisa Aschmann. HICKORY STIX Billy Mac and Don McCray drive to work each dawn at six Down the mountain to the factory, makes handles outta hickory stix Their job is easy labor, hanging handles on the line That drags…

COAL FEVER Key D D D sus D D D sus D When I got the fever I was eight years old Mamma called the doctor. So the story is told G G sus G G G sus G The doctor’s diagnosis made her blood run cold D D sus D D D sus D A He said I’d been infected…