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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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POTTER'S FIELD KEY Em Capo @ 3
Em……..(hold) Figure 1 is C G Am Em, Figure 2 is A A Em Em
F 1 - You might as well take me out and stand me up against the wall
F 1 - I don't want no bandanna, no cigarettes to ease the fall
F 2 - No…
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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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Side Effect posted an excellent track for collaboration over on songcrafters.org. I had some time this morning and cobbled this together. It appears to be about drug abuse. Warning - there is the odd expletive here. Oh and if you're sensitive…
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HERE COMES LONELY
A Rick Babb song
Ronnie says it's over. I don't believe
I'm not willing to give up
I'm not ready to see
She's made up her mind
She's counted to three
Here comes Lonely
Ronnie says it's over. I understand
It's been…
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WHEN THE HEART IS SILENT
When the heart is silent
The mind must tell the truth
That's the only way
For the heart to make it thru
The mind must be the guardian
The keeper of the fire
The heart can not stay silent
Or it will expire…
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She lies alone. She's crying.
The truth hit her like a rock
A rock thrown thru her window
The window to her heart
His eyes told her a story
And she believed it, every word
She made plans to leave forever
Her time was over on this earth…
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This is one of my favorite Gary Ogan songs.
I recorded it shortly after Peggy left back in 2007.
Don't remember why I just did half of it.
© 1977 Gary Ogan
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We were lying in the meadow
Holding on so tight
Irises expanded
Drinking in the light
All things were in order
Nothing outta place
Cut me on the shoulder
As it flashed across her face
It was a falling star
It was a falling star
I lost…
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where I cut out the seven layers to make the monkey songs Mon-Key is the album :) well this is what was left after the lifting off of seven layers.
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where the last two songs were mixed into the ambient thing then more ad libby dibby dribble stuff at the end fast fat and fluidlike ;ooo
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WRONG AS I COULD BE - Key of G
Never was a night in Tennessee
Like this Texas night to me
I feel free
Thought I was the writer of a song
But I was wrong
Wrong as I could be
She wouldn't leave with me
Said she believed in me
Even if…
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WINNER TAKE ALL
For every singer that’s famous
There must be a couple that ain’t
Well, he was a wasn’t but also he wasn’t
The kind to be thing he can’t
So, he got him a job on the radio
Spinning’ records and speaking’ his mind
Singing…
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TROJAN capo @ 3 in C
(C) When mommy and daddy live two thousand miles from each other it’s hard on the (G) kid
He can’t hold both their hands but he must stand between them and you know it’s for nothing he (C) did
And you (F) know it’s…
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AGELESS ANGEL Capo @ 2 Key Am
Intro – Am/ Am -/ Am - Bass G (3)
Am Bass F/ E
Am FM7 Am FM7
Thru the early morning curtain, muted light of new sun rays
C G E Am
Falls on you and I’m not certain. Is that your early-morning face?
In…
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Fort Worth Shoeshine
I was shining his shoes when he asked me strait out,
“What kind of place is this Fort Worth town?
What kind of people live here and what do they do?
I’m gonna be in town for a week or two.”
I spoke right up with my…
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I NEVER DREAM capo @ 2 in C
C
I never dream of building bridges. I never dream I’ll build a dam
I never dreamed of a cathedral for the mighty God, I Am
F
I never dreamed of founding clinics or make donations to the cause
C
I don’t see…
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The last time I saw Grandpa was fifty years ago
Palmdale, California. I was 4 years old
He was stooped and withered. A worn-out little man.
I remember him the best I can
I swear I just saw Grandpa in Daddy's barn just now
Out beyond the…
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HELLO
G C
You’re some kind of prophet, I’ll give you that
D G
But now what I need is a nurse
G C
An emergency entrance, can you show me that
D…
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CRAZY
She said if I ever go crazy and leave her
She'll go back to San Francisco
Now that she left and I'm crazy
I know where I have to go
Rocks line the bay
And ghost crabs scatter in Sausalito
I'll wait on the shore across the bay…
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WHO
I look. I see. I empty me into a smoke-filled room
I play. I sing out everything, 'til all that's left is gloom
I smile. I laugh. I show that half, I please them every night
But who will be the one for me. Who'll sing for me tonight…
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The Inappropriate Question
G C/Gbass
She said, “I can see that you’re hurting.
And I can see that you are wearing a ring.
Perhaps an inappropriate question,
but I’d like to ask you something.
"Soon I will be a grand mother
I have…
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This is just silly. Please move in.
(C) 2009 Royal T Music
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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Oh, no, can't be so.
Ain't no light at the end of the row.
© 2009 Royal T Music
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Jeff Prince was right about me and instrumentals...
(c) 2009 Royal T Music
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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THE GATHERING
"...and I was lead to the mountain top, and I beheld the valley beneath me. And the angels were below me and the sky above. And I was shining. The lightning was in my blood and the thunder was in my fist. "These can be yours…
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The Map Is Getting Smaller
The map is getting smaller
The houses disappear
The streets I used to play in
Have all disappeared
The map is getting smaller
The high ways far and near
The road that went to Gramma's house
I watched it disappear…
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Off the coast of California where the dolphins jump the waves
We stood and watched them from the cliffs above
Until the sunlight went away
Then we slept in the ancient shadows underneath the redwood trees…
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If I'm not mistaken this is my first Mozart
piece.
© 2009 Royal T Music
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Peggy left in the winter of 2007.
Seems like yesterday. I dream of her
so often it seems that she is still
around here somewhere.
When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away
The floors will be swept and all the bills will be paid…
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This is a guitar idea our friend Doug worked up for one of our Christmas songs. I'm posting it in case Amy gets a chance to listen from work. Hopefully we'll record a new, full version before Christmas!
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Another popular attraction at the theme park. They just love the kiddies to death...literally.
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Wasting Time // a Collaboration with Steve Krell
Steve Krell - Electric Guitar Magic
http://alonetone.com/slkrell
Greg Connor - Guitar, Harmonica, Bass
Lyrics & Chords
Wasting Time
Capo II and play in A
G It’s a C medley of G changes…
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70's mix
if you can sing like Greg Lake please contact me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time
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DnB mix
if you can sing like Greg Lake please contact me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time
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Rough draft Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter. Debating whether to ruin this with a vocal part or not.
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THE HAND OF GOD
I wrote this for a movie Keith Kjornes and I were making.
I don't remember the name of it.
I was trying to write a song as bad as the movie.
I think I succeeded.
The hand of god reached down and made Adam
He said…
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PRETTY THING
She hears the termites in the wall while he's sleeping
He can't even hear the phone from outside
She smells the cigarette from neighbors out smoking
He's got a nose but best she figures it died
She likes the bed made up but…
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AFTER WE'RE BROKEN
After we're broken we will turn from a fight
Ask what it pays and not if it's right
Reaching for balance while falling from grace
Fall from the light without losing our face
After we're broken we know it's too late…
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GRAMMA’S SHAMPOO Capo @ 3 Key Bm
Bm7 Am7 Bm7 Am7
GRAMMA’S SHAMPOO is washing my hair
G D C Bm7
And I hope it will notice that…
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THE LAST TIME
The last time we said good-bye
I didn't even look her in the eye
The last time I kissed her mouth
I didn't even think about
Some day I'd have to do without
If I never see her again I don't know why
If I ever see her again…
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The Brighter Candle
The brighter candle knows the truth
In golden glow of brightest sun
And knows there’s no eternal youth
The brighter candle
So many, walking, go nowhere
On bikes and skates with silver hair
It’s like a dream she once…
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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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CHRISTMAS IN MY HEART
Dear Mom and Dad,
I know you worry. I'll bet you're tired
But, I know you're thinking of me
Your letters keep me inspired
When the Time comes and I can't leave
Sand in my boots. Sores on my feet
I'll stand the…
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PAGAN MAN
Pagan man in a pagan land
You need britches britches
Sell 'em to the Indian
Trade 'em to the Indian
Dump 'em on the Indian
Pagan man in a pagan land
You need horses, horses
Sell 'em to the Indian
Trade 'em to the Indian…
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The Winnowing Wind
I feel the wind blow thru me
Oh, please don't let it undo me
Let it level and true me
The Wind. The Winnowing Wind
And here I stand, alone, against the wind,
And, who am I to think that I
Can stand alone against the…
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JONAH LIVES UNDER THE BRIDGE
Jonah lives under the bridge
He's there, up off the ground
His world is looking down
Bicycles pass him by
Children ask parents why
Jonah lives under the bridge
Jonah lives under the bridge
No insurance…
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YOU - capo 2 G
DCG
There's a place in my (GG.G)mind
Where your face had a home
Long before you walked into my life
Before you were a (D)known
There's (C)note in my (GG.G)song
That I knew fit somewhere
Tho…
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SHOES
During the Iraq war there was a traveling exhibit: On a mall they would line up pairs of boots. One pair for each American soldier killed in Iraq.
(c) 2006 Royal T Music
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This is from a poem by Cindy Sheehan's daughter, who's name I will include here when I remember it. It's her response to losing her brother in the Iraq war. A much publicised death. I think her name is Carlie.
A NATION ROCKED TO SLEEP
Have…
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KAMP KERR
Well, I ain't no hero. I'm just trying to survive
Me and Cindy, we just staying alive
We got a hurt in our heart and a tear in our eye
But, we ain't heroes
There's a small-town constable, he likes to play cop
So he bought a…
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When I wrote this I thought
the idea was pretty far-fetched.
Little did I know...
I started this song in Nashville.
I was hanging out with Lisa Aschmann.
She was going to tell me a melody for it
but that never happened
so I took the…
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ADOLESCENT ANGEL - capo @ 6 in C
C F C
Morning sun shies thru the curtains
C G C
Throwing shadows on her face
C F C
I…
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JESSE
I never met Jesse, but I heard her howl in the night
And I heard her pup yelping for whatever they help for
She was strong and she was there in the Texas night
Out on the prairie between Alvarado and Lillian
You could hear them, singing…
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WE DON'T KNOW MUCH
We don't know much...
We could be sad and not know why
We could say we're happy and know that it's a lie
We could say we're finished and start right up again
We could sware we're losin' and turn around and win
We could…
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PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA 1951
Palmdale, California 1951. Pretty yellow chickens hatching in the sun
Fertilizer spreader flings its fecal load. I climb up to watch in the trees along the road.
Little chickens, running, pecking, darting, so…
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THERE IS A LOVE
There is a love that withers. There is a love that fades
The kind of love that makes you wanna hide behind the door
Pull down all the shades
There is a love that makes me wanna tell you
About how good I feel
There is a…
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TEENAGERS ARE STUPID
Teenagers are stupid
At least I was
All the silly things we'd say
Silly, silly things
"Everyone is doing it."
It's a wonder we lived to be this old
Teenagers are stupid
Teenagers are stupid
What a hoot
How can…
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SONG OF THE CIRCLING MOON
We live on the shore of a mighty sea
Where the current is strong and nothing is free
The water is cool at the warmest noon
And the tides are ruled by a circling moon
We live on the edge of eternity
With our minds…
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SHE DIDN'T KNOW
Her flame wasn't orange. It was white.
The kind you can't see at the noon day bright.
Not the fickle flicker of a candle light
But a point miles off on a moonless night
She didn't know she was beautiful
Nobody told her…
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DENIAL SANATA
Denial's not a river in Egypt.
Oh, yes it is. Oh, yes it is.
The Nile is a river in Egypt
Oh, yes it is. Oh, yes it is
Put your feet in the water
Put your head in the sand
Put your hands in your pockets
Try to clap for…
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JUST A CAT
It looks like someone taped a firecracker to him and blew it off.
"Firecracker?"
He's just a cat. Just a cat. A raggedy old cat.
So why are we crying?
The world is on fire.
Light the fuse. It's a firecracker
"Firecracker…
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I have a video called THE BROKE PIANO on line at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JON_poM_sdY
Ironically, it does not include this song.
Key D
D (figure is D D sus, D D sus)
I am a BROKE PIANO. Got no damper and no keys
G…
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NO NEW LOVE
Ain't no new love like an old love in this town
Ain't no new love like an old love to take and turn my heart around
Stop it on a dime when you said that you'd be mine
Ain't no new love like an old love in my heart
Ain't no…
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FOREVER EYES
Let's just say it's 20 years from now
Your hair's turned gray and I'm still alive, somehow
When all is lost, we've found, that money buys
Will I still see Forever in your eyes?
Let's just say our promises are true
That you…
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WOULD YOU FORSAKE A MEMORY
If what we do is what we are
And every pain will leave a scar
Love must leave a beauty mark
A light to guide us when it's dark
And tenderness, a hope for more
And Trust, a key to any door
What comfort, then…
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Video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMyTe57GAR4
That Same Conversation
Linda lies, listening, quiet as a mouse
She can hear their voices echoing all thru the house
She listens sadly as Mommy and Daddy
Are having That Same Conversation…
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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
It seems there's a charge in the air
And he thinks about that Sweet Young Thing
And how she trembled the night…
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DRAGONFLY
Using loops from a program called ACID
(c) 2002 Royal T Music
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THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH
You will admit, of course that the life of the world is your life
What you know of history is your history
And what you know of the future is your future
And that goes for women we must presume
The women you have…
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He stands outside her window
Hour after hour, he watches
Piece by piece he sees her disappearing.
Once she was his flower
Now, he sees her fading
Who can say what comes between lovers?
He takes his blame for reasons they're apart
But thinks…
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JONAH LIVES UNDER THE BRIDGE
Jonah lives under the bridge
He's there, up off the ground
His world is looking down
Bicycles pass him by
Children ask parents why
Jonah lives under the bridge
Jonah lives under the bridge
No insurance…
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DREAM BOOK
Don't wake me up. Can't you see that I'm sleeping?
Turn out the light. I'm bound in a dream
Don't raise your voice. I'm crossing the border
Take a note from me. Write it down
I will tell you the words
There, in my dream book…
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LISA'S THUMBNAIL
Lost in a tangle of words
Her life is a shambles
Her dreams are in tatters
Her thots are a tangle of thorns
Her wounds are internal
Her smoke;e's for survival...
(c) 2002 Royal T Music
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HEY!
Hey, hey, hey
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey? Where you goin'?
Think I'll go with you...
As I walked out in The Streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen
Wrapped in white linen…
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We were living out on the prairie between Mansfield and Lillian. This was our neighborhood. it was 1977.
(c) 2000 Royal T Music
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It was a huge affair. Bigger than the Texas Jam.
But what would you expect from the first concert
staged on the moon?
TEXAS WATER
She's got stretch marks on her psyche
Her attitude is hanging down
But she's gonna pull it all together…
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C F Dm
Last night I was riding alone with the herd
G C
The moon and the stars in the night
The smell of the horses and grasses…
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In G Capo @ 1
Well, some folks think that Texas is just boots and belts and hat.
And Lone Star Chili's just carbohydrates, proteins and fats
I'll try to curb a snicker but I'm apt to disagree
TEXAS IS AS FAR AS I CAN SEE
Where the wind…
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They stuck me in a room with air in good condition
And a two-piece box of Kentucky Fried Chicken
I even ate the biscuit that came with the deal
I didn't like it but I ate it
Just to see how it would feel
Just to see how it would feel
I…
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Barbara Anne Taylor sings.
Que Paso capo @ 5 in G
Am/G x3
G G bass Em Am bass G bass F#
The man on the radio said we are falling apart
Am bass G bass F# G
Falling apart…
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This is a song I learned off a Berl Ives record when I was a kid. When I was in college and I auditioned for a talent contest I would always sing this song and I would always get on the program.
WEE COOPER OF FIFE
There was a wee coop wa…
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Most people only know the 1st verse and chorus to this beautiful song.
HOME ON THE RANGE
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not…
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I learned this song from a Burl Ives record when I was a child. It's always been very deep and sad to me.
STREETS OF LAREDO
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day
I spied a poor cowboy all wrapped in…
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Another of those old songs that has dozens of verses. I picked fro many versions. Joking about sad things and sad times. Music seems to make it all bearable.
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This is another song Dad asked me to learn for years. Like, RoseWood Casket, It makes no literal sense to me.
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I have always really liked this song. It's a cool story and delightful music. Has that funny/sad combination. Resignation of the poor and downtrodden.
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My dad asked me to record this song long before someone put it on line so I could learn it. I was so surprised: the story was so unlike what I was expecting. In fact the song doesn't make any sense to me even now.
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Of course, this is an old song.
My mom would always say, "Jimmy, play The Wild Wood Flower, like Dick Melton used to."
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Homer has paid his debt to the female mystery and is tired
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