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this is my first time so yeah
also it was very fun recording this
with jason
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When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk…
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A man receives advice and guidance from his wife in a most unusual way.
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I was working on a piano phrase played by Alonetone supremo [Sudara](http://alonetone.com/sudara) (about which, more later).
One of the approaches I took was to load the phrase into the Time Freezer instrument and play it. I kind of got lost…
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A CASKET AND A ROSE
capo @ 2 Am
There's nothing quite as slow to grow
Than a cherry laurel tree
A fingerling that grows beneath
That old oak canopy
Presented as a volunteer
On that creek bank south of town
One hundred yards from our…
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CHRISTMAS IN MY HEART
Dear Mom and Dad,
I know you worry.
I know you're tired.
But I know you are thinking of me.
Your letters keep me inspired.
When the time comes and I can't leave,
Sand in my boots, sours on my feet
I'll stand the heat because…
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CHRISTMAS@#$%& II
Snow flakes splashing on my windshield
My old heater hums a tune
And I can hardly see the road
and I'm wishing it was June.
Now, I ain't no atheist
and I ain't no Hebrew
And I ain't one to hold my tongue
when the thots…
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I sampled Curumin - Fumanchu on this track and put everything else in myself, I do believe its quite dank.
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THE BASHFUL TROMBONE
I'd be embarrassed by this if I had any pride.
But I don't so....
(C) 2009 Royal T Music
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I KNEW YOU'S GONNA SAY THAT
Well, I woke up this mornin agreeing with you completely
Oh, yeah, I woke up this mornin agreeing with you completely
(forgive me for this silly song...)
(C) 2009 Royal T Music
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FOREVER
She stares out the window. That look in her eye
How deep can her heart know life's passing her by
The radio's playing. She holds back a tear
A song she's forgotten
Holds back the years...Forever
And she says,
"I wish I 'd loved…
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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…
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After seeing a quick pick up at the Leather Ball Saloon in Dallas one 1974 evening. This is a song from the album, FEATHERS IN THE WING by Snow Geese/Barbara, Michael Jeffrey and me. 1976
(50 years later, I am stunned at the starkness of this…
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A song that Rick Babb started and I helped finish. (He brought me the first verse and the chorus and the music.)
HERE COMES LONELY
Ronnie says it's over but I don't believe
I'm not willing to give up I'm not willing to see She's made up…
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This is about the parth to self discovery and spirituality. All paths are valid and there is no requirement to be shown the way by someone else when we all have the ability to express our personal connection to the creator in our own personal…
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Wrote this while playing the part of Saul Gibbs in the movie WILD BILL.
The moon shone like diamonds on mirrors in puddles shaped like horse's feet
Deadwood was quiet. The smoke had all settled. The blood was dry.
Young Jack McCall sat awake…
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One night after our gigs, Chris Zeller at the Hilton Hotel and me at Shananagans in Midland we met in his hotel room and decided we would both write a song called THE CHANGING OF THE WAYS. I wonder what ever happened to him.
THE CHANGING OF…
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IF I WRITE A LETTER TO YOU - Key of G
If I write a letter to you
Tell me who will I write to
A lover, a friend,
A beginning, an end
If I write a letter to you
If I send a flower to you
Tell me who would not go to
A friend or a foe…
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DON'T TOUCH ME
Don't touch me and don't ask me why
Because I'll tell you
I'll take up your whole evening
And there's nothing you can say
And there's nothing you can do
So, don't touch me
And, don't ask me. Don't ask me how I've been…
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WHERE
Where will I spend the rest of our life?
Where will I live our tomorrow
Our only hope springs from within your sorrow
And if I thot your pain could be bought
I'd start saving today for tomorrow
Where, where
Our only hope springs…
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THE DUST ON THE PIANO
Capo at 2 in Dm
Dm C (2) or Em D
He used to play piano because it made her smile
Dm C (2)
She could be in any room. He'd sit and play a while
F C Bb (G)Dm
He didn't need to see her. He knew she loved it so
He…
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HE MOVED ON
capo @ 7 in C positions
C G Am Em
Jenny left her husband many years ago
F C G
She got lost in menopause and found herself…
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YOU - in C
There's a place in my mind
Where your face had a home
Long before you walked into my life
Before you were a known
There's a note in my song
That I knew fit somewhere
Tho the journey was long
I hoped I wouldn't be wrong…
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PEGGY’S GONE Capo @ 5 Key C
C G
PEGGY’S GONE after twenty nine years
Am F
Three grown children. What am I doing…
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A song that Rick Babb started and I finished. He brought me the first verse and the chorus and the music. I finished it.
© 2007 Royal T Music
HERE COMES LONELY Key D
D
Peggy says it’s over but I don’t believe…
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AGELESS ANGEL Capo @ 2 Key Am
Peggy said this song made no sense to her.
Little did I know that her heart had already been given to another man as I was writing this. Her words echo in my heart, "You should have known."
Intro – Am/ Am…
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Let the choir sing and spiral 'til you feel fine
Angels on a train calling 'heresy helpline'
I see force ready aim and fire
I'm coming to see you
I'm coming to see you
I dont feel like leaving town
If you don't wake up and come around…
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Capo @ 5 in C
Back in 2008 I was the recording secretary for the Fort Worth Singer/Songwriter Association. I submitted this song at our annual contests and was awarded a plaque
for BEST COMEDY SONG, which I consider a serious misunderstanding…
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It's just a Matter of Time.
We're born, and we live and we die
With tears in our eyes it's still a surprise
It's just a Matter of Time
It's just a Matter of Time.
Will Love, like all else soon decline?
Must glove and above turn into…
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SAILOR
"Welcome John Teeters, Marion County high school quarterback, 1939." What goes up must come down. Tie a string to a June bug and he flies round and round. Want get a job, you gotta drive into town. Catch a big catfish ya gotta drag him…
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HONEY CHILD
I see your eyes enquiring, without a word
Will I stick around or fly like a bird
Maybe I'll stay a while
Silhouettes colliding. Luminescent sparks
Crazy hoofbeats pounding. Trailblazing hearts
We'll ride in style, this winding…
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I'm five feet tall, skinny as a rail in the shade of the rag weed down along the trail. It's a Grasshopper world. I grab myself a coffee can or a Mason jar, I don't know where I'm going but I know where I are. It's a grasshopper world. "Look here…
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A MODEST PROPOSAL
The picture is my dad and his brother...
The sun is a magical ball
It’s got fire and gas
Yes, the sun has it all
The sun comes each day
Shines down it’s heat
Glory be, the sun shines for free
The sun can’t be stopped…
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This is one of the tracks off of my upcoming Album "Lightning Strikes" I signed with an Indipendent label back in July of this year and will be releasing my first album through them this month. "Best Of All" is an old school power ballad...Hope…
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Jesus is my buddy
Jesus is my pal
I hold hands with Jesus
when I walk a troubled mile
He never will desert me
no matter what I do
So, won’t you come to Jesus
he’ll be your buddy too…
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Teaching Selah how to milk a cow...
(C) 2008 Royal T Music
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DADDY MIGHT KNOW
Mamma keeps a asking when I a coming home
I said, "See ya on your birthday," but what does Mamma know?
Mamma's got damintion running round her so
Mamma doesn't get it but my daddy might know
Mamma's got demintion. You…
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Yes. Every word of it...
Blue Reversing Taylor
Born in 1979
Almost lost in 2008
Bullet
River took a bullet. A bullet in his chest
One went thru his forearm. In his hip one came to rest.
But River didn't feel it. He was busy at the time…
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A GOOD CRY
C) Why don’t you cry?
F) I know you need to
G) A tear was meant to F) ease the pain
C) A flood could come
F) and it will wash you
Am) So don’t you G) try to hold it F) back
Am) A good cry G) can’t be F) bad
Why don’t you…
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OKIE DOKIE
Well, you call me an Okie. That's okay with me
Okie dokie, I'm an Okie
I was born in Oklahoma. Out where the dirt is red
Hang out them brand new bed sheets
They'll be pink when you put 'em on your bed
Yes, I was raised in Oklahoma…
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C F G
Don't Mind Me. I'm just in love with you
I'll try to stay out of the way
I'll find me someone who loves me too
And then I'll go away (2)
Don't Mind Me. I've got this thing for you
I'll try to keep it down…
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Please enjoy the music while your party's being reached
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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…
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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…
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SWEET YOUNG THING
He lays out a freshly pressed Arrow
Clean socks and his new underwear
He brushes his teeth with tooth paste
There's a charge in the air
He thinks about that Sweet Young Thing
And how she trembled, the night before
He…
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This song is akin to REMEMBERING BABE. Another night to Keren's. Almost got caught by the cops. Saw 'em coming so Babe and I hid in the olive orchard until they turned off the spot light and left. THEN, I did what came to be called my Night Ride…
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A Cloudy Day For Sunny Am
Am G
They joke and they laugh and they smile and they
Am
sneer
Am G
They say things like, "I love you," for…
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the source for the longer stretched version of this.
no video yet but more mixing..
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OH, SCARLETT
(capo @ 3 in C positions)
If I was a stream I'd flow so free
and hope that you would drink of me
If I were a cloud and you were the sky
I'd savor you as I float by
Oh, Scarlett, eyes so bright
Oh, Scarlett, hold me tight…
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THE DENA WIND
The winds, they blow down thru the canyon
Blowing so wild and free
And the night is my only companion
As they're blowing La Dena to me
Blowing in the wind
Canyons in the wind
Fire is in the wind of my life
Questions in…
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CRY, CRY CRISTI
Cristi reads books about radio
She sits the children of light
Had a child of her own once down in Mexico
Now, her body's a dead end at night
Cry. Cry, Cristi
Tho she left, she's hardly gone
I find so much of her still…
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CEDRICK Key G Open G tuning (GGDGBD)
He gave me 2 rings. Silver with turquoise insets. That was 1974. We were moving from Oregon to Texas in an old Dodge school bus. Towing the Chevy Van behind it. Unhitched the van when we stopped in Albuquerque…
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ASA
I met a man named Asa today
Sweeping an apartment hall way
A washer of windows. A painter of walls
He moves when the manager calls
I was in San Francisco. Visiting with a friend
I was at the door, about to walk in
Saw this fella…
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CHILD OF MY RESTLESS DREAMS
I saw Annah last night
When she rose to hug me
I saw that she was with child
I saw Annah last night
And she looked so happy
I had to stay for a while
Should I be happy
Or should I morn another stranded soul…
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This is my adaptation of a poem by Rosemarie Kempton.
"I always felt that it was fitting that you turned the poem I wrote into a poignant hymn that captured the feeling of loss of a loved one. My words sprang from my attempts to understand…
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PEGGY'S GONE Key of F
Peggy’s gone. After 29 years.
Three grown children. What am I doing here.
Why am I still alive? What am I supposed to do?
I ask myself. I’m asking you.
Peggy’s gone. She says it’s for good
I say, “That’s bad,” but…
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THE POWER OF GOOD-BYE
I guess I've always been a sissy
I smash my finger and I cry
And when you say that you don't miss me
I wonder at The power of Good-bye
I know a man should never crumble
The faith he claims, it will deny…
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I DO - capo @ 3 in C
C Dm
You made the stars disappear
G C G
You said the words that I most feared
C stepping down to G...C
Why in the world…
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SHE LAUGHS
She laughs.
I can hear her thru the wall
She laughs
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.......
(C) 2007 Royal T Music
True's bedroom is thru the wall from mine.
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COLD LIZARD
There's a lizard, crawls out on the porch
Hops up on this wagon wheel hub, suns himself
Then, the other day a cloud came over
You know, lizards are cold-blooded
And this wasn't just any cloud
This was like darkness
There…
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I CAN'T GO TO WORK TODAY
I can't go to work today
I can't face the men
I can't go back to work today
I'm never going back again...
(...and I didn't.)
(C) 2007 Royal T Music
When Peggy told me she was leaving me for Doug Kirk, the…
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HER DOG
Alright, everybody gather 'round. Got it? Here we go.
Her dog is old. She ;listens as it coughs
He sobers on the hardwood floor
and then he licks the sloper off.
She swears the day is coming when she'll take him to the vet
But…
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BACK TO ONCE UPON A TIME
What does it profit a man to win the whole world and lose his girl?
A man must have a reason. A poet needs a rhyme
To make it thru a dark season, back to Once Upon A Time
The seasons pass so slowly as the seeds push…
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