Homer's songs are inside your little phones all having a good time

The experience: First reaction - "This sound feels so wrong!". Second Reaction - "My eyes are opened!". Third Reaction - "This sound feels so right!".

The first sound reminds me of my father's first electric piano that I play with when I was 5 years old. It's a simple beautiful thing! I tried to create a snapshot of simplicity that blossoms into a full blown "Christmas Extravaganza".

An Aggressively Electronic Sonic Barrage of Christmas Merriment!

Once in a while Homer thinks too much

You can never regain what's gone down with the flood

Conversation between a guard and inmate.

Hangin' with the old hound

A remix of Hentai Improvising Orchestra's live set at Doc's Records with Chris Vaisvil's fretless bass improv thrown in.

(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…

This originated as a poem sent to me by Rose Kampton, morning the loss of her father. I turned it into a prayer and put music to it. Then when Brook drowned it became something altogether else. (c) 1990 Royal T Muaic

(c) 1990 Royal T Music

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…

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…

FORTY YEAR BARN words by Jacque Shelton and JMT (I wrote the chorus.) I had a dream as a little boy Not a policeman, a fireman or even a toy I picked cotton, I waitered My sox need darned But all that I dreamed was my Forty Year Barn…

Key - G Texas Water might be the only trio besides The Browns to do this song in the later part of the twentieth century. By Jacque Brel via the Browns. Here it is by There Browns: https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+the+browns+three…

This one seems very apt for today's financial climate..........

Homer has paid his debt to the female mystery and is tired

Of course, this is an old song. My mom would always say, "Jimmy, play The Wild Wood Flower, like Dick Melton used to."

(c) 2004 Royal T Music

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…

COUNTER

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

(c) 2007 Royal T Music

(c) 2007 Royal T Music

(c) 2007 Royal T Music

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…

(c) 2007 Royal T Music

(c) 2007 Royal T Music

Rough draft Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter. Debating whether to ruin this with a vocal part or not.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

SWEET YOUNG THING He lays out a freshly pressed Arrow Clean socks and his new underwear He brushes his teeth with tooth paste There's a charge in the air He thinks about that Sweet Young Thing And how she trembled, the night before He…

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…

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…

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…

Ellamy tiller on piano, drums, and vocals.

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…

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…

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…

THE ONLY THINGS Any road that leads to somewhere Any thought that comes to mind Any sight on the horizon Any friend that's left behind Any meal that's ever eaten Any quilt that's ever lined Any concert that is set thru Any document that…

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…

Let the choir sing and spiral 'til you feel fine Angels on a train calling 'heresy helpline' I see force ready aim and fire I'm coming to see you I'm coming to see you I dont feel like leaving town If you don't wake up and come around…

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…

(C) 2008 Royal T Music

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…

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…

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…

I was trying to learn I'M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and gave up and took what I had already and wrote this. CACTUS FLOWER Cactus flower shining. Simple song of life never in a bouquet Gathered for a wife Cactus flower growing In a land…

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 cloudy all day Home, home on the range Where the deer and the antelope play…