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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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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…
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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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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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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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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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OUT THERE SOMEWHERE
Her eyes were blurry. Her face was painted
Her hair was dyed black. Her purse was heavy
She said something. I asked her to repeat it
She said, “Stop the car. I thot I could trust you.”
I pulled it over and I waited…
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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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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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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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TESLA
Who invented remote control? TESLA
Who invented the fluorescent light? TESLA
Who invented the radio? TESLA
And who died alone and forgotten in 1943? TESLA
So, you say now, “Don’t be angry.”
And you say, “Just tell the story…
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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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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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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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I was in Spain, in the Pyrenees, working on THE STONE RAFT. I was the only American, read, "English speaker." I was feeling very alone.
SOLITARY WALK Am
INTRO Am F Am F
Am (walking down) G F G
Tho I follow in the footprints of my friends…
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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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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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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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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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This song contains the body of the first song I ever wrote. A poem sent to me while I was away to school in Idaho in 1959 by Carolyn Opitz that I sat at an old pump organ and sang a thousand times when I was a junior in high school.
YOU CAN…
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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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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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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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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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for ImprovFriday 12/15-17/2011
improv in 11tet, then mixed with 10tet, then spectrally tweaked
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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…
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That's Peggy singing this song which was ironic because when all the stuff was going on around Brook's life and drowning she had been off in college hearing about it all from a distance...never thinking that someday she would be in the middle…
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by Poirier, Moshier, Hamilton, Sanderson, Sundstrom
conducted by Vaisvil
bahm
the far end of a forgotten street
lectured
script
steps
raw cymbal
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by Layton, Smith, Vaisvil, Samarkand
edgy
Ben Improv Dec 12 2011
fretless bass
manger
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by Smith, Samarkand
conducted by Vaisvil
Ben Improv Dec 15 2011
totter
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My most requested song.
(c) 1990 Royal T Music
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(Snakeskin Sally)
Open E tuning - EBEGBE
She wears a snake skin belt that says SALLY
and she's working at the lumber yard
I know you're thinking, "With a job like that
the lady must be hard."
She cuts my glass. Threads my pipe.
She really…
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TEXAS RAIN
They're stopping cars near Tyler
Just want to check your breath
They think they can prevent another death
And a skunk is eating June bugs beneath a light in Cedar Hill
Before day light, he's sure to get his fill
Texas nights…
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One Last Christmas 2011 – SKEEN
So this is our festive holiday,
A time for forgiveness, a time to pray…
You say that our future’s all but gone, mmm
Gone are the thoughts of our world as one
You say it’s all over; forget everyone, yeh
One…
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This song is my parody to tres delinquents. Just a comedy track i made about liking mexican food
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originally written and perfomed by Jeremy Messersmith
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originally written and performed by Stone Temple Pilots
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originally written and performed by Mason Jennings
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originally written and performed by Rural Alberta Advantage
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originally written and performed by The Rolling Stones
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originally written and recorded by the Foo Fighters
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originally written and performed by John Frusciante
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originally written by John Mercer and Henry Mancini
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Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1913
(see the 2nd entry)
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Details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1913
(see the first entry)
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Its an old one. Written about 12 years ago. Its about a girl, and how I felt I was better for having known her even once she wasn't around any longer
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Inspired by some surrealistic paintings from the 1930's.Imagine yourself exploring inside one of them. Added drumloops to give it a modern taste
While DeciBlanK0 added some new synth, sped it up, then shot out some major beats!
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originally written and performed by Jeremy Messersmith
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originally written and performed by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
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This was originally meant to be part of my national solo album month project in November. I did worse on that deal than I usually do on my RPMs. The more I listen to this one the less I like it. In fact, I kinda don't like it at all anymore…
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A fun little tune. Made all the synths from scratch.
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Loosely based on Stone Temple Pilots "Song for the Sleeping"
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Loosely based on John Frusciante's "Forever Away"
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part two of the mister mixture series :)
the video is again from a work done last week listening to both is allowed oooooo
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part three and these will be the sources one two and three for the final mix parts four a b and c.
more so the video is just to look at and hear as a layer or so.
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mixed from the mister mix album all the first three songs from that are put together here in this song. :) did i say song :) HAAHAHHAHAHA
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This is a 19 note per octave solo electric guitar improvisation played in classical guitar format recorded in Sonar X1 with Guitar rig and Lexicon reverberation. Makes it hard to classify for what audience would want to listen to it I guess. The…
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I wrote this song as the theme for the Jason Bailey feature film of the same name; Tom Page and I created the entire score. The song is sung here by the film's female lead, Becky Lathrop. I play organ and sing backup; Page plays all guitars and…
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Another festive cover, this was recorded in December 2010.
Written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan.
(Please let me know if there is a copyright issue here and I will happily remove the track. Thanks.)
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another just lying around thought hmm nothing else to do enjoy!
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Jeff Prince and John Murphy add guitars and harmony.
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
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Conversations with friends as we cross the Brooklyn Bridge in November 17th. This audio has information on what David Horvitz had for dinner in November 16th at Moma opening, as well as Jackqueline Frost talking about Empire and resistance. Jack…
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Refrain
Go, tell it on the mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain,
That Jesus Christ is born.
While shepherds kept their watching
o’er silent flocks by night,
Behold, throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light…
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original written and performed by Iron and Wine
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This song was written to contrast my previous upload, The Calm (which seems to change every time i play it.) I am tuned to drop d, then the b string down a whole step to a.
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Original song for the 2010 RPM Holiday Challenge
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A song about making choices.
Life moves in small steps
By the choices we all make.
We decide by will and pride
The path we'd like to take.
And the places we end up
And the people we will know
We'll see, you and me
By where we choose…
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trying to mix old pieces to make new ones.. I don't know if this is working or not but yeah mix mix mix
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I was not sure if this was uploaded but it is from the December 16th before the previous track was made... :)
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exponics evolutionary thought mining work number one.
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eponics work parts 1 unchanged// where this is just the work in its parallel format :)
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This is the whole of part one part two is ofcourse an epic drone work. :) my first for that and them there.
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