FREEDOM I started out with four chickens Thot I'd let 'em run free I found out: no more chickens What a licking' freedom can be. (C) 2009 Royal T Music

SUZY WOOZY In trees that topped the tallest roofs There lived some people known as swoofs They built their houses up so high The swoofs had wings and liked to fly They flew to school. They flew to play Most swoofs liked to climb that way…

SMART If I'm so smart, why are you telling me what to do? You say I'm smart as you times two If I'm so smart, won't you be quiet and let me think How did I get so lost, if I'm so smart? If I'm so smart, quit telling me to move along That…

(C) 2009 Royal T Music

I wrote this at my dad's urging. He likes it. We sing it together. I have YouTube Video of it up. EULOGY He grew up in Clinton, Oklahoma Red dirt back yard, Gramma's place Honey suckle in a dust bowl Life as hard as limestone lace…

YOUR VOICE I hear your voice I go get my ladder Pull on my gloves Climb up to the gutter Where the leaves gather round Talk about the weather I hear your voice I dig out our blankets The 'lectric controller Your grand mother's quilt…

This is my Katrina song. THE NEW NEW ORLEANS WALTZ There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun It's been the ruin of many a boy And Lord knows I am one Storms may come and storms may go But the sun will always shine Unless…

THE BASHFUL TROMBONE I'd be embarrassed by this if I had any pride. But I don't so.... (C) 2009 Royal T Music

THE SWEATER I gave her a ring. She gave me a sweater Powder blue pull-over, handsome and cool As long as I wore it, I couldn't forget her One night at a pool hall five blocks from the school I laid down my quarter and I picked me a pool…

New York Times, in an article today "Hamburgers in Paris!" Its on the front page Everybody wants it. McDonalds in Paris Everybody wants it Has the taste of the forbidden. Illicit and subversive. You can print it out. You can write it cursive…