BIG FAT HORSE I wish I had a big fat horse. Corn to feed him on. Pretty little girl to say at home. Feed him when I’m gone. Wish I had a big fat horse... I wish I had a mountain top to look out to the sea I wish I had a mountain top to…

HOEDOWN Hey now. Hoe now. Hey now. Hoe now. Chop that cotton. row now. Oh. Oh. ...two, three, four. Hoe now. Hey now. What you got to say, now? Tell me what you said. What’s in your pretty head now. Swing your partner. Oh. Allemande right…

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…

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…

DIAMONDS AND WATER You wear diamonds on your fingers You wear diamonds on your ears and you wear diamonds on your necklace You wear diamonds to the party You wear diamonds to the banquet You wear diamonds to the opera But I’ll take a…

FRUSTRATED ARTIST He was a frustrated artist trying to sell his pictures on the street. He was a frustrated artist never selling quite enough to eat, so, he overcompensated for the lack of compensation for the pictures that he drew…

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…

LISA MAKES APPOINTMENTS Capo @ 3 in C C stepping down G Lisa makes appointments for her friends to come and cry She’s got a comfy shoulder and an empathetic sigh Am. F. Am. F Lisa’s…

I wrote this song with Lisa Aschmann. CAPO @ 3 Video - https://www.facebook.com/100001011201926/videos/1285714588695761/ HICKORY STIX Dm Am Billy Mac and Don McCray drive to work each dawn at six Down the mountain to the factory, makes…

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

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…

OH JIMMY capo @ 4 or 5 live C Am F G On page thirty of the yearbook he found a picture sweet A girl named Marie Angel, in school right down the street Dm walk down G He didn’t notice…

SLAUGHTER MOUNTAIN My mom’s dad was a coal miner. Her mother died of TB when she was a kid. When she was twelve, her dad, dying of black lung, slit his throat with a butcher knife. That left her with a cripple little brother to take care of…

I’M STILL HERE Key D D A D D A D I’M STILL HERE. I’m feeling kind of shoddy. I’M STILL HERE in mind and body D…

LULLABY Key D D4 D sus D, D4 D sus D (D) Close your eyes and tell me. Tell me what you see. In the sleepy landscape of your reverie. (G) Can you count the blossoms in the (Em) garden (A) of your (D) mind? Think about the mountains and the…

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

I think Billy Pohl was 14 and Ra Byn was 12 when they did the drums, bass and guitar on this track. They are "old men" now and much celebrated. A Bill Pohl track: https://billpohl.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-bison?fbclid=IwAR2X4ookVrqQoEVDHplkUZ9b3CXHbskNlhH4CyJtQTsKulnyO8L9kohDzsQ…

C F G Don't Mind Me. I'm just in love with you I'll try to stay out of the way I'll find me someone who loves me too And then I'll go away (2) Don't Mind Me. I've got this thing for you I'll try to keep it down…

WAKING UP TO YOU I didn't want to tell you I'd been crying I'd hoped that I could dry up all my tears But my heart was like the compass On the bridge of a sinking ship And I was drowning in the ocean of my fears I remember that I said…

CRAZY LONELY People told me she was crazy. Did their best to clearly warn me. I was heedless, knowing fully, she was lonely, crazy lonely I was lonely. She was lonely. That was normal, but not enough I loved her. I was helpless and she loved…