A song I wrote with Lisa Aschmann.

A song I wrote with Lisa Aschmann in 1007. There's a hickory handle factory in Sequatchie, Tennessee. Dad and I did a tour a few years ago. HICKORY STIX Video - https://www.facebook.com/100001011201926/videos/1285714588695761/ Dm Am…

I don't see myself in shiny mirrors I don't see myself in sunny skies And I won't see myself Until I see myself again in Peggy's Eyes. Once upon a time there was a reason for the rhyme There was some silver in the dime . I remember And…

TRAIL OF TEARS was not a metaphor. It was an American Holocaust. Michael Jeffrey helped me with this track. TRAIL OF TEARS Am Bm/A C/A Am C/A Bm (3) E A CHORUS - Well, the trees…

A friend of mine sent me a poem and asked me to put music to it. I took the liberty to mangle a bit of the lyric. MANGO I like a mango. I like a mango. Well, I like mangos mornin' noon 'n night I like's in the dark. I like 'em in the light…

THE INAPPROPRIATE QUESTION - Capo @ 2 to sing G C/G bass She said, “I can see that you’re hurting, And I can see that you are wearing a ring. Perhaps an inappropriate question, but I’d like to ask you something. Soon I will be a grand…

Key - G People had been requesting this song for years. I decided to write it. It's the most requested song in Tarrant county It's a song that I had never heard before But I always try to sing the songs folks ask for and that' for sure…

A song for my friend, Eric. Eric changed his diet and drank some green gunk every day and he's cancer went into remission. It's 12 years later and last time we talked he said it was all back...now. He hasn't called in a while. I assume he has died.

What good is Christmas without the one you love...?

Adyn Brook sings this one for me...

When the war in Iraq first started how could we have known it would still be going?

Christmas was a bit untypical on the Mojave Desert back about 1950.

Sung by my grandson Adyn Brooke

Randy Brown and I did a little co-write this evening and this is what we came up with... I MISTOOK IT FOR THE MOON Capo @ 2 Key D (Play in C positions) I was coasting across West Texas/Had my top down, it was late at night I caught a coyote…

....another Peggy dream. She tiptoes to my room She leans over my bed And she kisses me I leave my doors unlocked so she can come to me When she misses me And I pretend that I'm asleep But that's not easy When she kisses me...

This one explains itself...for Eric. WORLD OF HURT Capo @ 3 Key G G A friend of mine called yesterday Em To try to cheer me up C He said I should be happy D Things could be much worse He told me he was…

"Somewhere between the stumbling and the falling..." SOMEWHERE G capo @ 2 - live @ 4 Somewhere between the summer and the winter The leaves between the tree tops and the fall Somewhere between my heart and circled letters Somewhere…

I was reading this profile on MySpace and was impressed with this girl...really impressed. It's all there in her BIO. Masters degree and five languages. The part about using gender "stereotypes ironically" etc is an exact quote. SKIN TONE…

THE PICNIC The sun broke like glass on the water The trees threw their shade on the sand The ants ate the crumbs on the blanket She ate the grapes from my hand We didn't know what we were doing It all started off with a smile And an innocent…

LEAVING - Am Am - He trembles like a Tamborine Dm - His thoughts in words adorned E - She puts her fingers to his lips Am - Sufficiently informed She knows a primal language That answers all his fears And in the silent darkness She…