Trying to write a Beatle song the week before I met Peggy. 1978.

Little did I know... If you left me I wouldn't wanna talk I'd put your sandals by the curb and I'd take a little walk I'd buy a roll of paper towels and I'd soak up every tear Hang it on the clothes line. Just watch them disappear If…

Right after Peggy and I met an old friend saw us singing and in the break he said to her, "You seem happy now." So, I wrote song from her old boy friend.

I used to believe this...

Tesla...maybe the smartest man that ever lived. TESLA Who invented remote control? TESLA Who invented the fluorescent light? TESLA Who invented the radio? TESLA And who died alone and forgotten in 1943? TESLA So, you say now, “Don’t…

(C) 2008 Royal T Music

(C) 2008 Royal T Music

I was told that even tho she left me after 28 years it doesn't negate the idea. There’s a place in my mind where your face had a home Long before you came into my life Before you were a known There’s a note in my song that I knew fit somewhere…

400 BULLETS 400 guns. 400 bullets. 400 babies in the grave. You got your New Pearl Harbor Now it’s time for a new Passover. 400 guns 400 guns. 400 bullets. 400 babies in the grave. Buy your $10,000 dog One bad steak and he’s a…

Just thinking back... LITTLE BOYS LOVE BASEBALL Little boys play baseball The rules are very clear You know if you're first or Second or third or If you're forth on the batting order Little boys play baseball Little boys love baseball…

Really! Come on...

After Brook drowned. Ra Byn did everything but rhythm guitar. He must have been about 12. Open 9th tuning... Well, you say that you're lonely I see that you are Tell me, where have you been Life ain't no lay pen Yeah, you call it a…

Family reunion - 1977, Lake Texoma. Old fogies and children all gone to bed. Me with my guitar down on the dock. Peggy sings.

In 1984 George Sluizer, a Dutch director filmed RED DESERT PENITENTIARY in and around Sweetwater, Texas. This is the theme song of the lead character, Danny McMann. I played that role in the movie and wrote the music to the film. Video at:https…

WHERE ARE YOU Where are you? I can't find you but I know you are here Where are you? Are you hiding? Oh, please say something, Dear Where are you? Now, remember, you said you'd never leave Where are you? Oh, please. Now you are scaring me…

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…

HE BALLAD OF THEDA NELL Capo 3 Am Am G On the shoulder of an eagle where the sparrow builds her nest Dm Am Texas town…

I can't remember her name. I saw her at Kerrville back in 2005. A little blond that always wore a leather cowboy had, played keys and wrote music for movies. (Someone remind me.) COULD SHE KNOW Could she know I think about her Thinking…

STRICKEN - James Michael Taylor Boy's Theme (River Phoenix) in River's last movie, DARK BLOOD. ...none the less, in my broken mind, some of the false hope leaks thru... Key D capo @ 2 in C I've been C stricken. I've been pierced…

There was this biker bar called The 2500 Club. Just west of Sylvania on Belknap. On a sign outside it says, "The best little biker bar in Texas." Guthrie and Rick and I played there long enough to get to feeling pretty much like family. EVERYBODY…