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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Fading Yellow Ribbon There’s a fading yellow ribbon around the oak tree in the yard Each day they walk out to the mail box but even walking’s getting hard And they’re looking for a letter that they fear will not arrive It’s a letter…

TRAIL OF TEARS Am Bm/A C/A Am C/A Bm (3) E A CHORUS - Well, the trees don’t grow And the grass don’t grow…

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