OCCUPY 0112 It's a highland I call my land It's an island in the sun No matter how you measure it It's always number one If I had a house to occupy I'd occupy my wish But to have a house to occupy I must defy the rich We buy the…

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

Just thinking about Happiness. Thinking about how she said she was leaving because she wanted to be happy. HAPPY Key - C walking down... Happy is the anvil as the hammer strikes the blade A fleeting spark that fades as the memory is made…

I met this Indian one night in Albuquerque. I think he put something in my coffee. CEDRICK Key G Open G tuning (GGDGBD) Albuquerque, ’74. Pulled off the road. Opened the door I said, “Hop in fellow if you’re needing a ride You’ve got…

I posted this song a few days ago and Bethan liked the music so much she wrote her own words. Here it is, a co-write across the Atlantic. SITTING BY THE WINDOW, NOTHING TO DO WAITING FOR THE TIME WHEN THE SUN SHINES THROUGH THE SUN SHINES…

I found a picture in my mother's high school yearbook that demanded I explain my reaction to myself. This is what i came up with. OH, JIMMY Capo @ 3 Key C (slow) C Em F…

Just a silly song about a sad situation. WHEN THE SUN SHINES THRU The moon is a hole in a canopy blue A hole in the sky where the sun shines thru The sun shines thru, The sun shines thru The scientist will tell you that I've got it all wrong…

BAND AIDS Words won't heal what's wrong with me and I suspect it's true all these band aids made of words won't heal what's wrong with you. (C) 2011 Royal T Music

Jeff Prince and John Murphy add guitars and harmony. (C) 2011 Royal T Music

FALSE FLAG If you fall I will pick you up If you're thirsty i will give you a drink If you're hungry I will feed you If you're lonely I will hold you If you're slow I will slow down If you're fast I will hurry But I won't salute your…

TEXAS RAIN They're stopping cars near Tyler Just want to check your breath They think they can prevent another death And a skunk is eating June bugs beneath a light in Cedar Hill Before day light, he's sure to get his fill Texas nights…

(Snakeskin Sally) Open E tuning - EBEGBE She wears a snake skin belt that says SALLY and she's working at the lumber yard I know you're thinking, "With a job like that the lady must be hard." She cuts my glass. Threads my pipe. She really…

My most requested song. (c) 1990 Royal T Music

This originated as a poem sent to me by Rose Kampton, morning the loss of her father. I turned it into a prayer and put music to it. Then when Brook drowned it became something altogether else. (c) 1990 Royal T Muaic

SIX OCLOCK SHADOWS At six p’clock the windmill throws it’s shadow on the grave The cattle chew their cud and lowly low above the one we didn’t save The broken body buried there beneath the sod we carried there that day And tho we hold each…

Barbara wrote this about a friend from Portland. It became her most requested song until she wrote North Sulfur River. But, then it was her only other song. (c) 1990 Royal T Music

One publisher told me, after listening to this song, "I don't like songs about Texas." I responded, "This is not about Texas." (c) 1990 Royal T Music

(c) 1990 Royal T Music

THE CHILD WITH THE BEAUTIFUL NAME (The story is @ iburymydead.com) What remains of an eagle that's fallen The roots of an oak tree now claim To draw sap for the shade for the cattle O're the child with the beautiful name The law, it…

That's Peggy singing this song which was ironic because when all the stuff was going on around Brook's life and drowning she had been off in college hearing about it all from a distance...never thinking that someday she would be in the middle…