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Another classical guitar improvisation. I feel this one is a bit repetitious but wanted to share it nonetheless.
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This song was written about being around someone who just didn't take any notice of what they were doing and took no notice of the warnings you had given them about their actions, so you had to go.
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Another soundtrack for one of my favorite science fiction novels.
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This started off as the first unplugged recording I ever made.
Bruce (Blooby)kindly added some drums and pipes to it....
Then Oldrottenhead sang a lyric over it a bit later...
The way this evolved amazed be. Never thought it would…
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Ain't No Nothin' 'bout Christmas
Ain't no nothin' 'bout Christmas
Ain't already been said
Ain't no nothin' 'bout Christmas
Ain't already in my head
Mmmmmmm Christmas
Ain't no songs about Christmas
Ain't already been sung
Ain't no fancy…
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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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Once again the source material is a snippet of beautiful piano from [Sudara](http://alonetone.com/sudara) only this time I fed it to a new Reaktor instrument that I am working on call Tukuramu.
Okay so tukuramu does not mean earth-quake but…
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WHEN I BELIEVED IN CHRISTMAS
When I was a kid
going home on the bus
we would sing Christmas songs
all the way to our stop
and we never asked questions
or doubted the things
we were told by our
parents or teachers or politicians.
How I wish…
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FISHING
People keep saying that it's a big ocean
There's more than one fish in the sea
Where did they get such a ridiculous notion
What's fishin' between you and me
Fishin' or fusion, photo voltaic cells
Wind mills and hydrogen too…
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by James Michael Taylor
I have a brain that I must keep busy
I have a heart with too many hurts
And I have a house with too many memories
My life is broken but somehow it still works
And I have a dream that wakes me up crying
I feel…
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WHEN HANNAH IS SILENT
When Hanna is silent, I worry
When Hanna is quiet, I wait
When Hannah shuts down,
There's a cloud on this town
Her silence increases the distance
When Hannah is silent, it's dark
Her words are the cues
To find…
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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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My high school friend was transporting a scroll to Los Angeles to be repaired...
SCROLL
There was a girl with a broken scroll
To make repairs, she took a stroll
To the city of angles right down the road
She made plans, then up and goed…
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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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by James Michael Taylor
I have a brain that I must keep busy
I have a heart with too many hurts
And I have a house with too many memories
My life is broken but somehow it still works
And I have a dream that wakes me up crying
I feel…
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Yeah, I know it goes on too long
but I put it at the end of the Cd so
if I'm not asleep by then it does the job.
And I totally understand if you think
it doesn't make any sense and
I ought to have left it off the CD.
COLORS
Spread…
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This is called "My Life Will Never Be the Same" because that is what I knew the moment Peggy said to me, "I told Doug, two days ago, that I am leaving you." It gives me chills just typing the words and that was four years ago.
(C) 2011 Royal…
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PEGGY'S GONE Capo @ 3 in C
C G
Peggy's gone, after twenty nine years
Am F
Three grown children. What…
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EVEN
Even if they brought you back to me paralyzed and blank
Dumped you on the porch and left the bill still owing at the bank
Even if you didn't know my face, couldn't speak my name
You and I have traveled much too far to still be…
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Written one morning at OLD Number NINE weekend with Eliza Gilkyson.
SNAPSHOTS
Life's a million snapshots, all lined and flashing
It seem like a movie but it's the persistence of our vision
It all goes in circles, hashing and rehashing…
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This is a Rick Babb song.
Hey! What's that sound
You're not around
The silence makes me see
Just what you meant to me
It's quiet tonight
Ah, you're not coming back
You drove away
I watched you pack
I can't hear a thing
But the sound…
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When this happened I couldn't get home before I had the song half written. What a lonely feeling.
NOBODY KNOW ME IN TOWN ANY MORE Key of G
G Em
There’s a bird in the gutter that…
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I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE'S GONE Key - G
She's been gone for three years now
Three years since she walked out
Friends and folks I work with
Ask me what it's all about
Tho I can't find an answer
As the days drag on and on
My heart is damn near…
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Written back in 1969 when Barbara and I were visiting friends of friends in Tulsa.
TULSA
When the sun has gone down
And the storm has passed over Tulsa
And the ponds are refilling
The people rest easy in Tulsa
I know 'cause I've been…
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I watched a Drama on the Tv last night and it got me thinking...................
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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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This is my anti-pro Texas song song.
TEXAS IS AS FAR AS I CAN SEE
Well, some folks say that Texas is boots and belts and hats
And Lone Star chili's just carbohydrates, proteins and fats
I'll try to curb a snicker but I'm apt to disagree…
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She said, "If you ever go crazy and leave me, I will come here to live."
(C) 2008 Royal T Music
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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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INFATUATION, UNREQUITED
They say it's just infatuation
I only wish that it was true
Infatuation, unrequited
Feels like love to, for you
And then they say, 'Silence is golden,"
And I don't know what to do
The autumn leaves, the branched…
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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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SINCE YOU WENT AWAY Key G
G Bar 7/ 6/ 5 D
I lie on my back. Look up thru the leaves
B C Cm
The stars are still there
G Bb Dim Em…
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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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THE RING IN THE ASH TRAY Key - G Capo at 3
There's a (G) ring in the ash tray of a blue 95 Bronco
(Actually, a green Volvo)
In a (C) drive way with a sign that says “FOR (G) SALE”
And if (D) you're the first caller for (C) $1000 dollars…
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QUIVER
Johnny Brown set a trap for a rabbit and he went to bed
In the morning he found Mr. Wiggle almost dead
Johnny held his knife to Wiggle's throat
Mr. Wiggles was a quivering. Mr. Wiggles was a quakinh
Mr. Wiggles heart was breaking…
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I DO (Waltz) Capo @ 3 Key C
C Dm G C G
You made the stars disappear. You say the words that I most fear
C Bass B Am G…
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HE STILL LIMPS
EEEEBB/DDDDAA (2) C# (4)
C# It was his birthday. He got a puppy.
She took a hold of his heart B C C#
C# I'll call you Princess. You'll be my buddy
and we will never part B C C# - C# (2)
C# It was his birthday. He…
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I sang this live few times until
it became clear that it was a joke to the
audience and less and less so for me. Actually a song expressing my deepest anguish.
LIFE GOES ON Key C
C F
When…
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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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POTTER'S FIELD KEY Em Capo @ 3
Google: "Husband kills wife's boyfriend AND unfaithful wife, then self. "
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…
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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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I'M A STRANGER TO ME - capo @ 3 playing in C
I'm a stranger to me
I make the bed where I sleep
I cook the food that I eat
I fold the towel that dries
The tears in my eyes
I'm a stranger to me
I'm a stranger to me
Every morning we meet…
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THE RING IN THE ASH TRAY
Capo @ 3 in G
G
There's a ring in the ash tray of a blue '95 Bronco
C G
In a driveway with a sign that says FOR SALE
D…
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SHE IS WITH ME
In the hours between the darkness and the dawn
when tears are coming on SHE IS WITH ME
I type her name and address to the picture in the frame
at the Paradise Hotel and SHE IS WITH ME
I know that we are worlds apart
It…
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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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I asked my love's boyfriend to take a walk...
(C) 2008 Royal T Music
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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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THE ANGELS CRIED NO - capo @ 4 in Am
Am Em - He lived high up on the mountain top
He lived there with his love
He tumbled to the valley deep
F - When she gave him a shove
And, when he hit the valley deep
It must have broke his heart…
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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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JEREMY'S DAUGHTER - Am
Last night I had a dream so real.
A dream inside my dream.
I fell asleep in the dream inside my dream
And in my dream I saw a face
This dream inside my dream
I saw a face inside the dream inside my dream
Whose…
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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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There was a guy I met. His name was King.
He gave me this title and a bit of the story.
He liked what I did with his idea...
and, then, he vanished.
I can't understand the words either.
(C) 2008 Royal T Music
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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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Teaching Selah how to milk a cow...
(C) 2008 Royal T Music
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GROWL
In the middle of the night my stomachs growling’
The windows rattle and the coyotes howling’
Tip toe to the pantry to do a little prowling’
The cupboard’s empty and the well’s run dry
Not enough water to tear my eye
In the middle…
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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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BOOTS
When I was a kid, I was gonna have a pair of cow boy boots some day
We were poor as dirt but I wasn't going to stay that way
And, my teacher at school, he said that I could
And I promised him, some day that I would
When I was a kid…
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MAMMA
My mamma taught me to make my bed
Mamma taught me to iron my shirt
Mamma taught me to put a pillow in a pillow case
To wash and dry the dishes and that orange doesn't go with red
She said, "It's busy.'
My mamma taught me to brush…
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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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"Is one dead baby worth all this sorrow?"
"Gotta get outta bed if you're going to make history."
Scenes from John Steinbeck's book, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE.
"There's something going on out in California and I'd like to know what it is." Preacher…
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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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Special Guest covering I'd Love to Change the World
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A A D D A A EAE
A E
1. She’s cool and collected
A E
I never feel rejected
A D A EAE
But she’ll never say the word
So unaffected…
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HAPPY NOW
Pretty girl turning into a woman
I never that the day would be coming’
Pretty smile turned into crying
I wondered why her true love was dying
Happy now. There’s no way to miss it
Happy now. I wonder, “Why is it.
She’s happy…
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CRAZY LONELY
People told me she was crazy. Did their best to clearly warn me.
I was heedless, knowing fully, she was lonely, crazy lonely
I was lonely. She was lonely. That was normal, but not enough
I loved her. I was helpless and she loved…
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WAKING UP TO YOU
I didn't want to tell you I'd been crying
I'd hoped that I could dry up all my tears
But my heart was like the compass
On the bridge of a sinking ship
And I was drowning in the ocean of my fears
I remember that I said…
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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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Who should turn up this evening down the cellar but Frank so Jango and Reg put this one together for him hope you enjoy........
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Please enjoy the music while your party's being reached
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I’M STILL HERE Key D
D A D D A D
I’M STILL HERE. I’m feeling kind of shoddy. I’M STILL HERE in mind and body
D…
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PROLOG
I was born in California. I was raised in California.
To me, the world was California. Evrything else
was some strange place. One place I knew about
was Tennessee, where my mom grew up. I heard
stories about her dad being a miner…
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HOEDOWN
Hey now. Hoe now. Hey now. Hoe now.
Chop that cotton. row now. Oh. Oh.
...two, three, four. Hoe now. Hey now.
What you got to say, now? Tell me what you
said. What’s in your pretty head now.
Swing your partner. Oh. Allemande right…
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THE WALLET OUTLASTED THE LADY
I was 20. She was 15
I was her prince. She was my queen
We shared our dreams
Yeah, we shared 'em all
We shared the large
We shared the small
It must have been the Christmas of 1963.
She took a $10 bill…
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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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Saw a black man on TV one night. His name was John Ferguson. This is his story. He's not a songwriter.
DAMNED IF I DO - G
I got thrown in jail for killing a guy
Then I went crazy, waiting to die
So, now they can't kill me
Because I'm…
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Kozy West
Emily had more regrets than she could ever count
She got to feeling crowded so she moved outta town
She bought herself a trailer park she called The Cozy West
Tried to forget about the past. Just be open to the best...open
To…
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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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capo @ 4 Am - 3/4 time (starts on A)
Am G Am G Am
Last night I said Good bye to Rose but long ago I learned.
The things that last we seldom know and think a bridge is burned.
Bb…
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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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SHE DOESN'T THINK WE CAN MAKE IT
She doesn't think we can make it
She doesn't think you can take it
She'll do what she can to break it
If she can't have me, she'd rather see me alone
She asked me into her mind, and
She knew the things…
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Key of G
G C G C
G
I'd be glad to let you love me
C
if you'll just hold me for a while
D
You could take your time and linger
C G
I…
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When I wrote this, 50 years ago,
I was afraid it would seem like nothing happened.
BALI HI
Bali Hi, at 6th and Broadway
Just a little place where people go
To have a quiet drink,
Listen to the band and think.
Maybe meet a friend…
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This is the title song from my first LP.
FEATHERS IN THE WIND by SNOWGEESE.
Snowgeese was my first wife, BarbaraAnne and me. Michael was a new friend we met when we moved to Texas that liked my songs enough to produce and arrange and record…
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I'M AN EAGLE
I'm an eagle
I'm an arrow
I'm a falcon
I'm a sparrow
...and I feel the wind crossing my feathers in the morning
Flying high above the fields. Swoop down without a warning
I'm an eagle
I'm an arrow
I'm a falcon
I'm…
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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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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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I FELL IN LOVE WITH TEXAS
Well, I was not born in Texas
I just came here for a while
You give a state like this an inch
It turns into a mile
I came to stay a day or two
It turned into a life
Now I've got three hungry kids
And one Texas…
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CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT Key G (open G tuning GGDGBD)
Also, called THE BUG SONG
On Feathers in the Wind album
They’re flying in from miles around - C
They circle and they settle down – Bm
They sit and feel the world go round with you – Am…
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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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