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…

(C) 2008 Royal T music

Special Guest covering I'd Love to Change the World

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…

(C) 2008 Royal T Music

(C) 2008 Royal T Music

Cover of Carpenter, by Frank Hackney

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…

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…

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…

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…

Ellamy tiller on piano, drums, and vocals.

Cover of a 19th century minstrel tune attributed to S.S. Steele, popularize by the late great John Hartford. This is my own arrangement. I use it as a backing track for alive set without the banjo and lead vocal tracks. BTW- that banjo is an…

Who should turn up this evening down the cellar but Frank so Jango and Reg put this one together for him hope you enjoy........

A blues song based on actual events

Please enjoy the music while your party's being reached

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

the source for the longer stretched version of this. no video yet but more mixing..

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…

(C) 2006 Royal T Music

(C) 2006 Royal T Music

(C) 2006 Royal T Music

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…