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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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YOU - capo 2 G
DCG
There's a place in my (GG.G)mind
Where your face had a home
Long before you walked into my life
Before you were a (D)known
There's (C)note in my (GG.G)song
That I knew fit somewhere
Tho…
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SHOES
During the Iraq war there was a traveling exhibit: On a mall they would line up pairs of boots. One pair for each American soldier killed in Iraq.
(c) 2006 Royal T Music
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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THERE IS A LOVE
There is a love that withers. There is a love that fades
The kind of love that makes you wanna hide behind the door
Pull down all the shades
There is a love that makes me wanna tell you
About how good I feel
There is a…
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TEENAGERS ARE STUPID
Teenagers are stupid
At least I was
All the silly things we'd say
Silly, silly things
"Everyone is doing it."
It's a wonder we lived to be this old
Teenagers are stupid
Teenagers are stupid
What a hoot
How can…
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SONG OF THE CIRCLING MOON
We live on the shore of a mighty sea
Where the current is strong and nothing is free
The water is cool at the warmest noon
And the tides are ruled by a circling moon
We live on the edge of eternity
With our minds…
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SHE DIDN'T KNOW
Her flame wasn't orange. It was white.
The kind you can't see at the noon day bright.
Not the fickle flicker of a candle light
But a point miles off on a moonless night
She didn't know she was beautiful
Nobody told her…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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NO NEW LOVE
Ain't no new love like an old love in this town
Ain't no new love like an old love to take and turn my heart around
Stop it on a dime when you said that you'd be mine
Ain't no new love like an old love in my heart
Ain't no…
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I was in Spain, in the Pyrenees, working on THE STONE RAFT. I was the only American, read, "English speaker." I was feeling very alone.
SOLITARY WALK Am
INTRO Am F Am F
Am (walking down) G F G
Tho I follow in the footprints of my friends…
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FOREVER EYES
Let's just say it's 20 years from now
Your hair's turned gray and I'm still alive, somehow
When all is lost, we've found, that money buys
Will I still see Forever in your eyes?
Let's just say our promises are true
That you…
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WOULD YOU FORSAKE A MEMORY
If what we do is what we are
And every pain will leave a scar
Love must leave a beauty mark
A light to guide us when it's dark
And tenderness, a hope for more
And Trust, a key to any door
What comfort, then…
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Video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMyTe57GAR4
That Same Conversation
Linda lies, listening, quiet as a mouse
She can hear their voices echoing all thru the house
She listens sadly as Mommy and Daddy
Are having That Same Conversation…
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SWEET YOUNG THING
He lays out a freshly-pressed Arrow
Clean socks and his new underwear
He brushes his teeth with tooth paste
It seems there's a charge in the air
And he thinks about that Sweet Young Thing
And how she trembled the night…
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DRAGONFLY
Using loops from a program called ACID
(c) 2002 Royal T Music
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THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH
You will admit, of course that the life of the world is your life
What you know of history is your history
And what you know of the future is your future
And that goes for women we must presume
The women you have…
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He stands outside her window
Hour after hour, he watches
Piece by piece he sees her disappearing.
Once she was his flower
Now, he sees her fading
Who can say what comes between lovers?
He takes his blame for reasons they're apart
But thinks…
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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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DREAM BOOK
Don't wake me up. Can't you see that I'm sleeping?
Turn out the light. I'm bound in a dream
Don't raise your voice. I'm crossing the border
Take a note from me. Write it down
I will tell you the words
There, in my dream book…
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LISA'S THUMBNAIL
Lost in a tangle of words
Her life is a shambles
Her dreams are in tatters
Her thots are a tangle of thorns
Her wounds are internal
Her smoke;e's for survival...
(c) 2002 Royal T Music
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HEY!
Hey, hey, hey
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey? Where you goin'?
Think I'll go with you...
As I walked out in The Streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen
Wrapped in white linen…
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We were living out on the prairie between Mansfield and Lillian. This was our neighborhood. it was 1977.
(c) 2000 Royal T Music
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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…
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was a Texan.
Quannah Parker was the son born to Cynthia Parker, a white girl, stolen by Comanche raiders who grew up to be the wife of the chief. Quannah, in turn became the leader of his tribe. Eventually, Cynthia returned to her people. This…
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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…
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In G Capo @ 1
Well, some folks think that Texas is just boots and belts and hat.
And Lone Star Chili's just carbohydrates, proteins and fats
I'll try to curb a snicker but I'm apt to disagree
TEXAS IS AS FAR AS I CAN SEE
Where the wind…
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They stuck me in a room with air in good condition
And a two-piece box of Kentucky Fried Chicken
I even ate the biscuit that came with the deal
I didn't like it but I ate it
Just to see how it would feel
Just to see how it would feel
I…
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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…
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This is a song I learned off a Berl Ives record when I was a kid. When I was in college and I auditioned for a talent contest I would always sing this song and I would always get on the program.
WEE COOPER OF FIFE
There was a wee coop wa…
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Most people only know the 1st verse and chorus to this beautiful song.
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…
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I learned this song from a Burl Ives record when I was a child. It's always been very deep and sad to me.
STREETS OF LAREDO
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
As I walked out in Laredo one day
I spied a poor cowboy all wrapped in…
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Another of those old songs that has dozens of verses. I picked fro many versions. Joking about sad things and sad times. Music seems to make it all bearable.
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This is another song Dad asked me to learn for years. Like, RoseWood Casket, It makes no literal sense to me.
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I have always really liked this song. It's a cool story and delightful music. Has that funny/sad combination. Resignation of the poor and downtrodden.
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My dad asked me to record this song long before someone put it on line so I could learn it. I was so surprised: the story was so unlike what I was expecting. In fact the song doesn't make any sense to me even now.
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Of course, this is an old song.
My mom would always say, "Jimmy, play The Wild Wood Flower, like Dick Melton used to."
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Homer has paid his debt to the female mystery and is tired
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for ImprovFriday 12/15-17/2011
improv in 11tet, then mixed with 10tet, then spectrally tweaked
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FANNIN COUNTY FAIR
Fannin county fair. Red River rhymes and riddles
And the Bois d' arc spread beneath the harvest moon
There I found her, and I crowned her
Queen of the Fannin County Fair
I told her I'd be rich. I told her I'd be famous…
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Barbara sings this... I wrote this song back about 1975.
I'D BE GLAD TO LET YOU LOVE ME
Key of G
G C G C
G
I’d be glad to let you love me
C
if you’ll just hold me for a while
D
You could take your time and linger
C G
I will not…
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From the Texas Water album TEXAS RAIN
Peggy sings this one.
OKLAHOMA NIGHTS - Capo @ 2
G F G
Carefully, the boats are tied up to the shore
C G F C D
And the fish are jumping in the night, in the night
B D G
And the wind has found…
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EASY ANSWERS
Easy answers, foggin' up my mind
Easy answers, takin' up my time
You tell me what I feel
What is right and what is real
What do you know?
You say, like all the rest
What is worst is what is best
What do you know?
Easy answers…
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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…
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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…
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This is the song that got me the job of writing all the music for the 1985 George Sluizer movie, Red Desert Penitentiary and a free trip to Amsterdam to work on the music with the editor.
Video at"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V23Be8kDiSs…
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JONAH
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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Her name was Rosemarie Jean and I have lost contact with her. She wrote the poem I turned into Beneath the August Moon.
I SAW ROSE AGAIN TODAY
I saw Rose again today
And I recognized the way
My heart reached out
With unturned fingers…
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My daughter, Wyn, sings
a song I wrote in 1977
while I was doing a gig
at the Ramada Inn in
Laredo.
Harmonies are by her mother,
Barbara Anne Taylor and step
mother, Peggy Ann Mitchell.
The guitar solo and keys are
by my son, Rabyn…
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