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

EXPECTING - capo @ 1 in E I keep expecting to come home and find you here waiting for me And Time can't diminish the hopes in my heart or the ghosts in my dreams/sleep In the darkness and cold sometimes Winter forgets there's a Spring And…

(C) 2009 Royal T Music

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…

24 HOURS When there ain't nobody listening A cry is just a sound When there ain't nobody watchin' A tear just wets the ground When nobody knows, nobody cares When the only girl that ever loved you Walks out the door and drives away…

One day Connie Ramsey called and let it slip that she was writing a rocking chair song. I thot that was a good subject for a song so I wrote one too. Rocking Chair Well, I got one on the porch and one in the den And just enough umph for…

Maybe some day I will have a Cds-worth of songs about "Hannah." She has crept into my writing life and is a treasure. A fellow word smith from a different universe: The planet of Broken Mirrors. Hanna is the name I use when I write about Shannon…

(c) 2009 Royal T Music

The drum and keys track was on a CD sent to me and composed and performed by a friend, Don Landry. Instantly I wanted to put voices with it, so I did. Don likes it. Mission accomplished. (c) 2009 Royal T Music

This is a Rick Babb song. Given, he wrote it about Peggy and me, I rewrote the lyrics of the verses to be more specific. But the music and the chorus is his. My son, RaByn produced it and played the guitars and drums and bass. JUST IN CASE…

Oh, no, can't be so. Ain't no light at the end of the row. © 2009 Royal T Music

Jeff Prince was right about me and instrumentals... (c) 2009 Royal T Music

I suppose we've all known a bossy girl. They don't age well. OKAY "You stand here and you sit there and you will be my friend, Okay? You hold hands and you lie down and, you just wait for me, okay?" Well, it was cute when she was three…

Something just broke and I think it’s my heart It wasn’t an arrow. It wasn’t a dart. And it mighta been a meteor that blew it apart. (A heavenly body) Something just broke and I think it’s my heart Something just broke and I think it…

THE SEASONS OF THE HEART The Seasons of the Heart, they come and go Like the winter wheat that weathers snow You and I will learn to fly. Never let the music fade and die And, if the seasons stopped turning We'd all wish for Winter…

TETHER BALL I'm justa lonely tether ball hanging on a pole I've been around and I've see it all And it all gets really old Just a lonely tether ball Tired of taking my licks I've been beat up and I've been beat down Watching' you gettin…

THE FINAL WORD One night James Michael went to bed and held on to this girl And in the morning light he found that it was another world Realities envisioned seemed to challenge status quo And every time he would say, “Yes.” the world, it…