GONE - My sequester song... Chain wrapped around the dog park gate Weeds growing on the school yard lawn Where has everybody gone The chairs are stacked And the stage is dusty And my strings are getting rusty... (C) Royal T Music

BEAVERS AND WILLOWS Capo @ 5 in C FCG FC FCFG F C G F C Like beavers and willows Bats and mosquitos F) Toad C) frogs and F) flies (G DA DA - E Am G C Algae and oil spills Shovels and coal hills Black holes…

HOME (Am D) or (F C) VERSE 1. Where the (G) windmill sings to the mocking bird And the (CM7) prairie wind, without a word (Am) Whispers thru tall (D) grass, I’ll be (G) home (F C G) or (Am D) VERSE 2. Where the butter cups and…

Capo @2 in C F C F C G I said, "Okay, okay. I'll wear 'em one more time and I'll throw them C away." F…

DIRTY LAUNDRY Key C I got a call from Russell. He had to move his junk He’d filled his car. He’d filled his trunk Big black bags of something. I said, “What’s with these?” He said, “It’s dirty laundry.” I said, “That’s crazy.” So, he…

JUST LIKE ME - Capo 1 in G G C G How many people, each day, do you see D G You think to yourself, “Hey…

CALIFORNIA Capo @ 4 in C/Am I’m (Am) going back to California A little place in the San (E) Joaquin (Am, stepping down A G F# F E) Where the back pasture builds To Sierra foothills And Kaweah tumbles down cool and clean I’m going back…

THE TIDE POOLS OF CALIFORNIA capo @ 5 in C. 4/6 time…

A friend asked me, "Don't you have any happy songs?" So I wrote one! IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY capo @ 3 C F C If it makes you happy I will tie your shoe C…

I wrote this song after planting and fertalizing a crop of sudan grass just to have the sun shine down with no relief on it for 100 days and no rain. We, Texas Water, were heading home one night AFTER A GIG at Gringo's in Grapevine when the…