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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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This might sound like chaos.
Well, it is. I was trying to play 4/4 against 3/4 and
some other silly time signatures.
(C) 2008 Royal T Music
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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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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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BUTTER MOON
I heard this kid say the moon looked like a tortilla
Some people say they can see a man in the moon
But I know, if you look just right, you can see the face of Marylin Monroe
Yeah, when the moon first comes up it looks like a…
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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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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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BOBBIE DIED
Bobby died night before last
I didn't notice
I walked right past all the cars on the street
I thot it must me some kind of church group
Bobby died and I know she'll be missed
And, Buford, he won't get over this
He depended…
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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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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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The song first came about at the back end of the 80's. I recorded the guitar and vocal for the songcrafters.org fest Live in the Living Room all in one take. Recently I added a bass part.
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THE DENA WIND
The winds, they blow down thru the canyon
(Dena and I met in Canyon, Texas to check out a museum.)
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…
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STIX & STONES
Children are playing
Hear what they are saying
I only wish it was true
I'm just a boy, now
Just a throw-away toy, now
Wondering what I should do
Once I was harder
Never a martyr
Never gave true Love a try
Then…
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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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I think Billy Pohl was 14 and Ra Byn was 12 when they did the drums, bass and guitar on this track. They are "old men" now and much celebrated.
A Bill Pohl track: https://billpohl.bandcamp.com/track/doctor-bison?fbclid=IwAR2X4ookVrqQoEVDHplkUZ9b3CXHbskNlhH4CyJtQTsKulnyO8L9kohDzsQ…
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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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LULLABY
Key D
D4 D sus D, D4 D sus D
(D) Close your eyes and tell me. Tell me what you see. In the sleepy landscape of your reverie. (G) Can you count the blossoms in the (Em) garden (A) of your (D) mind? Think about the mountains and the…
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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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SLAUGHTER MOUNTAIN
My mom’s dad was a coal miner. Her mother died of TB when she was a kid. When she was twelve, her dad, dying of black lung, slit his throat with a butcher knife. That left her with a cripple little brother to take care of…
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The lyrics of this song,
as they pertain to plot,
are my exact memory of the event.
I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…
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I wrote this song with Lisa Aschmann. CAPO @ 3
Video - https://www.facebook.com/100001011201926/videos/1285714588695761/
HICKORY STIX
Dm Am
Billy Mac and Don McCray drive to work each dawn at six
Down the mountain to the factory, makes…
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LISA MAKES APPOINTMENTS
Capo @ 3 in C
C stepping down G
Lisa makes appointments for her friends to come and cry
She’s got a comfy shoulder and an empathetic sigh
Am. F. Am. F
Lisa’s…
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COAL FEVER Key D
D D sus D D D sus D
When I got the fever I was eight years old
Mamma called the doctor. So the story is told
G…
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FRUSTRATED ARTIST
He was a frustrated artist
trying to sell his pictures on the street.
He was a frustrated artist
never selling quite enough to eat,
so, he overcompensated for the lack of
compensation for the pictures that he
drew…
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DIAMONDS AND WATER
You wear diamonds on your fingers
You wear diamonds on your ears
and you wear diamonds on your necklace
You wear diamonds to the party
You wear diamonds to the banquet
You wear diamonds to the opera
But I’ll take a…
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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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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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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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Peggy taught me an Eagles song toward the end off our life together. I think it was NEW BOY IN TOWN. (I had no idea what she was telling me.) I took the chord progression from that song and wrote this. Peggy said that was cheating.
WATERMELON…
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LAMENT FOR WILD BILL in C - Capo @ 3
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 in his cell, alone and quiet…
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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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All the things I didn't say
All the things I didn't do
All the times I didn't take
the time to tell you
All the times we didn't share
All the things we didn't see
All the times I let you do your thing
And you, me
There's only today…
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IF I HAD A LADY LIKE THAT
If I had a lady like that I wouldn't take her to the General Store
If I had a lady like that I wouldn't go there any more
If I had a lady like that I'd take her to some high-class joint
Buy her some candle light…
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I never sing this song the same two times in a row.
The lyric below is pretty close to how I sing it now.
Listening again, this is an awful version of this song...
I have my recording machine working again...I must redo this.
I PLAY C…
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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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This is, actually, the instrumental version of I Play C and THEN comes SNAPSHOTS, which was written one morning at a campground between Comfort and Welfare, Texas called OLD NUMBER NINE Depot. It was a weekend songwriter retreat with Liza Gilkyson…
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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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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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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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HUNGRY EYE
He goes down to a honky tonk to see the people there
He'll pick him out an angel and he'll stare
But it does not really matter if she is alone
It's not his thot to take the lady home
Hungry eyes. Hungry eyes.
He's just come…
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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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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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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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