One day Connie Ramsey called and let it slip that she was writing a rocking chair song. I thot that was a good subject for a song so I wrote one too. Rocking Chair Well, I got one on the porch and one in the den And just enough umph for…

(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) 2007 Royal T Music

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 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…

This is, actually, the instrumental version of I Play C and THEN comes SNAPSHOTS, which was written one morning at a campground between Comfort and Welfare, Texas called OLD NUMBER NINE Depot. It was a weekend songwriter retreat with Liza Gilkyson…

Saw a black man on TV one night. His name was John Ferguson. This is his story. He's not a songwriter. DAMNED IF I DO - G I got thrown in jail for killing a guy Then I went crazy, waiting to die So, now they can't kill me Because I'm…

This song is akin to REMEMBERING BABE. Another night to Keren's. Almost got caught by the cops. Saw 'em coming so Babe and I hid in the olive orchard until they turned off the spot light and left. THEN, I did what came to be called my Night Ride…

SWEET YOUNG THING He lays out a freshly pressed Arrow Clean socks and his new underwear He brushes his teeth with tooth paste There's a charge in the air He thinks about that Sweet Young Thing And how she trembled, the night before He…

HOEDOWN Hey now. Hoe now. Hey now. Hoe now. Chop that cotton. row now. Oh. Oh. ...two, three, four. Hoe now. Hey now. What you got to say, now? Tell me what you said. What’s in your pretty head now. Swing your partner. Oh. Allemande right…

PROLOG I was born in California. I was raised in California. To me, the world was California. Evrything else was some strange place. One place I knew about was Tennessee, where my mom grew up. I heard stories about her dad being a miner…

(C) 2007 Royal T Music

The lyrics of this song, as they pertain to plot, are my exact memory of the event. I had spoken to the kid maybe a minute before the "action" started about how the pressure of the water was very strong. He was nestled down with his back…

Ellamy tiller on piano, drums, and vocals.

THE DENA WIND The winds, they blow down thru the canyon (Dena and I met in Canyon, Texas to check out a museum.) 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…

This is one of the tracks off of my upcoming Album "Lightning Strikes" I signed with an Indipendent label back in July of this year and will be releasing my first album through them this month. "Best Of All" is an old school power ballad...Hope…

I'm five feet tall, skinny as a rail in the shade of the rag weed down along the trail. It's a Grasshopper world. I grab myself a coffee can or a Mason jar, I don't know where I'm going but I know where I are. It's a grasshopper world. "Look here…

It's just a Matter of Time. We're born, and we live and we die With tears in our eyes it's still a surprise It's just a Matter of Time It's just a Matter of Time. Will Love, like all else soon decline? Must glove and above turn into…