Written June 2019 Recorded July 2020

I said, "Okay, okay. I'll wear 'em one more time and I'll throw them away." I can only take so many knocks When my children make fun of my socks. I said, "Okay, okay. I'll wear them one more time and I'll throw them away." Sometimes I…

BEAVERS AND WILLOWS Like beavers and willows Bats and mosquitos Toad frogs and flies Algae and oil spills Shovels and coal hills Black holes and light (C) 2020 Royal T Music

The second of seven unfinished leftovers from RPM 2007 to finally get completed. The lyrics are about my strong desire to vacation in San Diego... permanently. Just a little 12-bar. I liked this one a lot more before it was finished. Now I…

This has been in my head forever, but I never managed to pull it together until now. The lyrics were inspired by @_FloridaMan on twitter. Formerly known as RPM 2014 #4 Is it overreaction when everyone acts that way does it lead to distraction…

PLEASE DON'T TELL ME ANY MORE capo @ 3 in G James Michael Taylor 09 26/7 14 VERSE ONE - You said you knew the story would upset me G That you'd resolved to kept it to yourself G D You said you knew how hard it would…

M E L I S S A Key of G These are letters I like to say - M E L I S S A These are notes I like to play…… Letters that sparkle. Notes that jingle Make a little song in my heart There’s a song in my heart today - M E L I S S A I wish…

It's about Fog... The fog that crept into the window at the Fort Ord stockade back in 1965, when I would skip breakfast and sit by the barred window in the barber chair and smell the ocean air.

I hate when I write the ending first...This is the 4th "bit" written in "The Room Over The Garage" or simply, "The Room" 2 minutes of pretty much the same progression...but it will coax out the rest of the tune. We write in "bits" or "pieces…

Written Fall 2018 Recorded Spring 2020