alonetone radio: Popular
Popular
live in the kitchen vox + piano only no fx version
and i don’t know what you mean
about the things i haven’t seen
it isn’t easy being green
when all you ever say is mean
you know i tried to keep it clean but
you were messing up my scene…
Uploaded
The rhythm is a little off here and there. I'm not used to playing a keyboard.
Uploaded
live at Avant Garden in Houston, Tx. 12/28/11
This edit contains the motifs Up the Chupacabra and Hymn.
Uploaded
Down the cellar this evening we were having a bit of fun with this old Elvis Classic ....he didn't seem to mind.....but Dr Nick had been in earlier.........with the one armed Banjo band backing...
Uploaded
The insecurity of criticism to the nowhere man ......... I didn't have time this evening to put any music to this so i've put an old instrumental (The Turkish Lout) to it.....hope you enjoy my little drama about that nowhere man....(Be Warned…
Uploaded
Well heres my attempt at singing Jerusalem....i would have liked to have performed it better so that the vocal would have done Chris's music more Justice but sometimes you just have to do what you can and go with the flow........thanks Chris…
Uploaded
When i was a young man I stayed round a so called friends house once and heard them talking about me through the walls ........i never let on i heard.........needless to say they are no longer my friend............Hopefully they will hear the…
Uploaded
originally written and performed by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
Uploaded
Homer used to play music for a living and you know what that means
Uploaded
Parts I and II originally written and performed by Neutral Milk Hotel
Uploaded
originally written and perfomed by Jeremy Messersmith
Uploaded
This one seems very apt for today's financial climate..........
Uploaded
Barbara Anne Taylor sings.
Que Paso capo @ 5 in G
Am/G x3
G G bass Em Am bass G bass F#
The man on the radio said we are falling apart
Am bass G bass F# G
Falling apart…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
Reg managed to get this one going in the Cellar last night before the children went to bed so he didn't wake them with his wailing....hope you enjoy it was a lot of fun to do although the songs a sad one...................
Uploaded
CHOICES
"After my house burn down I was confuse.
Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..."
"We called it The American War."
My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama:
I had forgotten how painful I find…
Uploaded
I have a video called THE BROKE PIANO on line at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JON_poM_sdY
Ironically, it does not include this song.
Key D
D (figure is D D sus, D D sus)
I am a BROKE PIANO. Got no damper and no keys
G…
Uploaded
JUST A CAT
It looks like someone taped a firecracker to him and blew it off.
"Firecracker?"
He's just a cat. Just a cat. A raggedy old cat.
So why are we crying?
The world is on fire.
Light the fuse. It's a firecracker
"Firecracker…
Uploaded
ACID TEARS
As the hours turn into days and the weeks turn into years
I am happy, but I'm always close to tears
Surely as the love that we share will last forever
Our bodies will die and our love will go on
And tho the thot that love will…
Uploaded
DENIAL SANATA
Denial's not a river in Egypt.
Oh, yes it is. Oh, yes it is.
The Nile is a river in Egypt
Oh, yes it is. Oh, yes it is
Put your feet in the water
Put your head in the sand
Put your hands in your pockets
Try to clap for…
Uploaded
ADOLESCENT ANGEL - capo @ 6 in C
C F C
Morning sun shies thru the curtains
C G C
Throwing shadows on her face
C F C
I…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
This is my Katrina song.
THE NEW NEW ORLEANS WALTZ
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a boy
And Lord knows I am one
Storms may come and storms may go
But the sun will always shine
Unless…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
THIS BROKEN HEART OF MINE - capo @ 4 in C
Well, I watched you play a crowd out in West Memphis
And I’ve seen you play the trout at Timberline
So, the next time you’re in town you must come around
(So, if you're out my way on any given…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
This was my dad's favorite song of mine about thirty years ago. Maybe it was because he just liked to hear me sing s positive song for a change.
(C) 2011 Royal T Music
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
THE BASHFUL TROMBONE
I'd be embarrassed by this if I had any pride.
But I don't so....
(C) 2009 Royal T Music
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
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…
Uploaded
Well Reg is drunk again in the cellar and getting Morose thinking of how he was treated so badly by yet another woman who has left him....... so he's had to vent it into this blues song for the broken people................He just doesn't know…
Uploaded
Jango and Louis got to it this afternoon after watching the Wizard Of Oz on the Tv after a hefty lunch down the cellar and brought a tear to everyones eye.....................after Norm said about the dark side of the Rainbow i decided to check…
Uploaded
Veejay Andres- vocals, bells, bass drum, cymbal
Raeann Feist- vocals
Daniel Wilson- accordion
Josh Brokaw- lyrics, mandolin
Justin Alcasid- upright bass
JV Andres- vocals, guitalele, tambourine, claps, whistle, violin, mandolin, banjo…
Uploaded
A Christmas song about what really matters.........i got the idea for the music listening to Jarvis and his accordian the other evening so thanks J........
A CHRISTMAS SONG (Lyrics)
Welcome to christmas eve the show begins again
were going…
Uploaded
Long ago One mans argument against the opposition of the many didn't go down too well............Thanks Norm for Groove for St. Ambrose
Uploaded
Started out be an innocent little jazzy study in quartal harmony, but the DL4 was still in my signal path and things went downhill from there! Another done with my beloved '58 Stratotone
Uploaded
Well Jefferry came down the cellar this evening for a chat and a bit of consoling.................. so we decided to recant his tale of woe........................poor old Jeferry.............
Uploaded
I have just received the little black songbook through the post and couldn't resist having a go at this one...
Uploaded
