YOUR VOICE I hear your voice I go get my ladder Pull on my gloves Climb up to the gutter Where the leaves gather round Talk about the weather I hear your voice I dig out our blankets The 'lectric controller Your grand mother's quilt…

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…

24 HOURS When there ain't nobody listening A cry is just a sound When there ain't nobody watchin' A tear just wets the ground When nobody knows, nobody cares When the only girl that ever loved you Walks out the door and drives away…

Maybe some day I will have a Cds-worth of songs about "Hannah." She has crept into my writing life and is a treasure. A fellow word smith from a different universe: The planet of Broken Mirrors. Hanna is the name I use when I write about Shannon…

(c) 2009 Royal T Music

The drum and keys track was on a CD sent to me and composed and performed by a friend, Don Landry. Instantly I wanted to put voices with it, so I did. Don likes it. Mission accomplished. (c) 2009 Royal T Music

This is a Rick Babb song. Given, he wrote it about Peggy and me, I rewrote the lyrics of the verses to be more specific. But the music and the chorus is his. My son, RaByn produced it and played the guitars and drums and bass. JUST IN CASE…

Oh, no, can't be so. Ain't no light at the end of the row. © 2009 Royal T Music

Jeff Prince was right about me and instrumentals... (c) 2009 Royal T Music

I suppose we've all known a bossy girl. They don't age well. OKAY "You stand here and you sit there and you will be my friend, Okay? You hold hands and you lie down and, you just wait for me, okay?" Well, it was cute when she was three…

Something just broke and I think it’s my heart It wasn’t an arrow. It wasn’t a dart. And it mighta been a meteor that blew it apart. (A heavenly body) Something just broke and I think it’s my heart Something just broke and I think it…

THE SEASONS OF THE HEART The Seasons of the Heart, they come and go Like the winter wheat that weathers snow You and I will learn to fly. Never let the music fade and die And, if the seasons stopped turning We'd all wish for Winter…

TETHER BALL I'm justa lonely tether ball hanging on a pole I've been around and I've see it all And it all gets really old Just a lonely tether ball Tired of taking my licks I've been beat up and I've been beat down Watching' you gettin…

THE FINAL WORD One night James Michael went to bed and held on to this girl And in the morning light he found that it was another world Realities envisioned seemed to challenge status quo And every time he would say, “Yes.” the world, it…

THE GATHERING "...and I was lead to the mountain top, and I beheld the valley beneath me. And the angels were below me and the sky above. And I was shining. The lightning was in my blood and the thunder was in my fist. "These can be yours…

The Map Is Getting Smaller The map is getting smaller The houses disappear The streets I used to play in Have all disappeared The map is getting smaller The high ways far and near The road that went to Gramma's house I watched it disappear…

Off the coast of California where the dolphins jump the waves We stood and watched them from the cliffs above Until the sunlight went away Then we slept in the ancient shadows underneath the redwood trees…

If I'm not mistaken this is my first Mozart piece. © 2009 Royal T Music

Peggy left in the winter of 2007. Seems like yesterday. I dream of her so often it seems that she is still around here somewhere. When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away The floors will be swept and all the bills will be paid…

This is a guitar idea our friend Doug worked up for one of our Christmas songs. I'm posting it in case Amy gets a chance to listen from work. Hopefully we'll record a new, full version before Christmas!