When I wrote this, 50 years ago, I was afraid it would seem like nothing happened. BALI HI Bali Hi, at 6th and Broadway Just a little place where people go To have a quiet drink, Listen to the band and think. Maybe meet a friend…

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…

I'M AN EAGLE I'm an eagle I'm an arrow I'm a falcon I'm a sparrow ...and I feel the wind crossing my feathers in the morning Flying high above the fields. Swoop down without a warning I'm an eagle I'm an arrow I'm a falcon I'm…

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…

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…

I FELL IN LOVE WITH TEXAS Well, I was not born in Texas I just came here for a while You give a state like this an inch It turns into a mile I came to stay a day or two It turned into a life Now I've got three hungry kids And one Texas…

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…

CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT Key G (open G tuning GGDGBD) Also, called THE BUG SONG On Feathers in the Wind album They’re flying in from miles around - C They circle and they settle down – Bm They sit and feel the world go round with you – Am…

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

A CASTLE IN THE SAND (C) 2007 Royal T Music

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…

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

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…

SHE LAUGHS She laughs. I can hear her thru the wall She laughs Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....... (C) 2007 Royal T Music True's bedroom is thru the wall from mine.

COLD LIZARD There's a lizard, crawls out on the porch Hops up on this wagon wheel hub, suns himself Then, the other day a cloud came over You know, lizards are cold-blooded And this wasn't just any cloud This was like darkness There…

I CAN'T GO TO WORK TODAY I can't go to work today I can't face the men I can't go back to work today I'm never going back again... (...and I didn't.) (C) 2007 Royal T Music When Peggy told me she was leaving me for Doug Kirk, the…

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…

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…