DIAMONDS AND WATER You wear diamonds on your fingers You wear diamonds on your ears and you wear diamonds on your necklace You wear diamonds to the party You wear diamonds to the banquet You wear diamonds to the opera But I’ll take a…

Palmdale, California. 1950. 15th Street East. CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS MEMORIES Take me back to California on that sunny Christmas morn. Christmas there was different on those Mojave Desert nights No snow and not much money for sharp clothes…

BIG FAT HORSE I wish I had a big fat horse. Corn to feed him on. Pretty little girl to say at home. Feed him when I’m gone. Wish I had a big fat horse... I wish I had a mountain top to look out to the sea I wish I had a mountain top to…

Peggy taught me an Eagles song toward the end off our life together. I think it was NEW BOY IN TOWN. (I had no idea what she was telling me.) I took the chord progression from that song and wrote this. Peggy said that was cheating. WATERMELON…

LAMENT FOR WILD BILL in C - Capo @ 3 The moon shone like diamonds on mirrors in puddles shaped like horse's feet Deadwood was quiet. The smoke had all settled. The blood was dry. Young Jack McCall sat awake in his cell, alone and quiet…

THE WALLET OUTLASTED THE LADY I was 20. She was 15 I was her prince. She was my queen We shared our dreams Yeah, we shared 'em all We shared the large We shared the small It must have been the Christmas of 1963. She took a $10 bill…

All the things I didn't say All the things I didn't do All the times I didn't take the time to tell you All the times we didn't share All the things we didn't see All the times I let you do your thing And you, me There's only today…

Kozy West Emily had more regrets than she could ever count She got to feeling crowded so she moved outta town She bought herself a trailer park she called The Cozy West Tried to forget about the past. Just be open to the best...open To…

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

A Cloudy Day For Sunny Am Am G They joke and they laugh and they smile and they Am sneer Am G They say things like, "I love you," for…

the source for the longer stretched version of this. no video yet but more mixing..

OH, SCARLETT (capo @ 3 in C positions) If I was a stream I'd flow so free and hope that you would drink of me If I were a cloud and you were the sky I'd savor you as I float by Oh, Scarlett, eyes so bright Oh, Scarlett, hold me tight…

(C) 2006 Royal T Music

(C) 2006 Royal T Music

(C) 2006 Royal T Music

capo @ 4 Am - 3/4 time (starts on A) Am G Am G Am Last night I said Good bye to Rose but long ago I learned. The things that last we seldom know and think a bridge is burned. Bb…

THE DENA WIND The winds, they blow down thru the canyon Blowing so wild and free And the night is my only companion As they're blowing La Dena to me Blowing in the wind Canyons in the wind Fire is in the wind of my life Questions in…

CRY, CRY CRISTI Cristi reads books about radio She sits the children of light Had a child of her own once down in Mexico Now, her body's a dead end at night Cry. Cry, Cristi Tho she left, she's hardly gone I find so much of her still…

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…

ASA I met a man named Asa today Sweeping an apartment hall way A washer of windows. A painter of walls He moves when the manager calls I was in San Francisco. Visiting with a friend I was at the door, about to walk in Saw this fella…