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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

(C) 2008 ROYAL T MUSIC

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…

(C) 2008 Royal T Music

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…