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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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EXPECTING - capo @ 1 in E
I keep expecting to come home and find you here waiting for me
And Time can't diminish the hopes in my heart or the ghosts in my dreams/sleep
In the darkness and cold sometimes Winter forgets there's a Spring
And…
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I wrote this at my dad's urging. He likes it. We sing it together. I have YouTube Video of it up.
EULOGY
He grew up in Clinton, Oklahoma
Red dirt back yard, Gramma's place
Honey suckle in a dust bowl
Life as hard as limestone lace…
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YOUR VOICE
I hear your voice
I go get my ladder
Pull on my gloves
Climb up to the gutter
Where the leaves gather round
Talk about the weather
I hear your voice
I dig out our blankets
The 'lectric controller
Your grand mother's quilt…
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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…
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24 HOURS
When there ain't nobody listening
A cry is just a sound
When there ain't nobody watchin'
A tear just wets the ground
When nobody knows, nobody cares
When the only girl that ever loved you
Walks out the door and drives away…
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Maybe some day I will have a Cds-worth of songs about "Hannah." She has crept into my writing life and is a treasure. A fellow word smith from a different universe: The planet of Broken Mirrors.
Hanna is the name I use when I write about Shannon…
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The drum and keys track was on a CD sent to me and composed and performed by a friend, Don Landry. Instantly I wanted to put voices with it, so I did. Don likes it. Mission accomplished.
(c) 2009 Royal T Music
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This is a Rick Babb song.
Given, he wrote it about Peggy and me, I rewrote the lyrics of the verses to be more specific. But the music and the chorus is his. My son, RaByn produced it and played the guitars and drums and bass.
JUST IN CASE…
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Oh, no, can't be so.
Ain't no light at the end of the row.
© 2009 Royal T Music
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Jeff Prince was right about me and instrumentals...
(c) 2009 Royal T Music
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I suppose we've all known a bossy girl. They don't age well.
OKAY
"You stand here and you sit there and you will be my friend, Okay?
You hold hands and you lie down and, you just wait for me, okay?"
Well, it was cute when she was three…
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Something just broke and I think it’s my heart
It wasn’t an arrow. It wasn’t a dart.
And it mighta been a meteor that blew it apart.
(A heavenly body)
Something just broke and I think it’s my heart
Something just broke and I think it…
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THE SEASONS OF THE HEART
The Seasons of the Heart, they come and go
Like the winter wheat that weathers snow
You and I will learn to fly.
Never let the music fade and die
And, if the seasons stopped turning
We'd all wish for Winter…
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TETHER BALL
I'm justa lonely tether ball hanging on a pole
I've been around and I've see it all
And it all gets really old
Just a lonely tether ball
Tired of taking my licks
I've been beat up and I've been beat down
Watching' you gettin…
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THE FINAL WORD
One night James Michael went to bed and held on to this girl
And in the morning light he found that it was another world
Realities envisioned seemed to challenge status quo
And every time he would say, “Yes.” the world, it…
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THE GATHERING
"...and I was lead to the mountain top, and I beheld the valley beneath me. And the angels were below me and the sky above. And I was shining. The lightning was in my blood and the thunder was in my fist. "These can be yours…
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The Map Is Getting Smaller
The map is getting smaller
The houses disappear
The streets I used to play in
Have all disappeared
The map is getting smaller
The high ways far and near
The road that went to Gramma's house
I watched it disappear…
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Off the coast of California where the dolphins jump the waves
We stood and watched them from the cliffs above
Until the sunlight went away
Then we slept in the ancient shadows underneath the redwood trees…
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If I'm not mistaken this is my first Mozart
piece.
© 2009 Royal T Music
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This is a guitar idea our friend Doug worked up for one of our Christmas songs. I'm posting it in case Amy gets a chance to listen from work. Hopefully we'll record a new, full version before Christmas!
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Another popular attraction at the theme park. They just love the kiddies to death...literally.
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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…
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70's mix
if you can sing like Greg Lake please contact me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time
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DnB mix
if you can sing like Greg Lake please contact me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time
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Rough draft Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter. Debating whether to ruin this with a vocal part or not.
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THE HAND OF GOD
I wrote this for a movie Keith Kjornes and I were making.
I don't remember the name of it.
I was trying to write a song as bad as the movie.
I think I succeeded.
The hand of god reached down and made Adam
He said…
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PRETTY THING
She hears the termites in the wall while he's sleeping
He can't even hear the phone from outside
She smells the cigarette from neighbors out smoking
He's got a nose but best she figures it died
She likes the bed made up but…
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AFTER WE'RE BROKEN
After we're broken we will turn from a fight
Ask what it pays and not if it's right
Reaching for balance while falling from grace
Fall from the light without losing our face
After we're broken we know it's too late…
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GRAMMA’S SHAMPOO Capo @ 3 Key Bm
Bm7 Am7 Bm7 Am7
GRAMMA’S SHAMPOO is washing my hair
G D C Bm7
And I hope it will notice that…
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THE LAST TIME
The last time we said good-bye
I didn't even look her in the eye
The last time I kissed her mouth
I didn't even think about
Some day I'd have to do without
If I never see her again I don't know why
If I ever see her again…
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The Brighter Candle
The brighter candle knows the truth
In golden glow of brightest sun
And knows there’s no eternal youth
The brighter candle
So many, walking, go nowhere
On bikes and skates with silver hair
It’s like a dream she once…
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The Fading Yellow Ribbon - A
A
There’s a fading yellow ribbon
around the oak tree in the yard
Each day they walk out to the mail box
but even walking’s getting hard
And they’re looking for a letter
that they fear will not arrive
It…
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TRAIL OF TEARS
Am Bm/A C/A Am C/A Bm (3) E
A
CHORUS - Well, the trees don’t grow
And the grass don’t grow…
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CHRISTMAS IN MY HEART
Dear Mom and Dad,
I know you worry. I'll bet you're tired
But, I know you're thinking of me
Your letters keep me inspired
When the Time comes and I can't leave
Sand in my boots. Sores on my feet
I'll stand the…
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PAGAN MAN
Pagan man in a pagan land
You need britches britches
Sell 'em to the Indian
Trade 'em to the Indian
Dump 'em on the Indian
Pagan man in a pagan land
You need horses, horses
Sell 'em to the Indian
Trade 'em to the Indian…
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The Winnowing Wind
I feel the wind blow thru me
Oh, please don't let it undo me
Let it level and true me
The Wind. The Winnowing Wind
And here I stand, alone, against the wind,
And, who am I to think that I
Can stand alone against the…
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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…
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