Chance would rather be chained in her back yard than returned to the pound... Yes...Portland etc...

It used to be me...what else can I say?

When I was a kid, my dad was the preacher at the Church of Christ in Tehachapi, California. We lived in Palmdale, so we'd get up early on Sunday mornings, pile the 5 of us into our 1950 Chevy coupe and head up thru Lancaster and Mojave, over the…

Same old story. Something just broke and I think it's my heart. It wasn't an arrow. It wasn't a dart. Mighta been a meteor that tore it apart Something just broke and I think it's my heart. Something just broke and I think it's my heart…

THE LEAP Well, a man took a walk down a trail with his buddies. Everybody came along. And they came to a cravis with a pumas at the bottom and he was singing this song "Well, you can go back or you can leap forward, or you can leave it up…

You look out the window and the creek is swelling. Slowly crossing the lawn and heading up the driveway.... Time to get the lawnmower to higher ground. TODAY IT’S GONNA RAIN - Key C G Today it’s gonna…

Mariam was telling me about how much her Daddy meant to her and how when she plays and people "hear" her it is like her daddy is there too.

Sometimes the past just looks better then the present...because it was. Trying not to be too sad about it.

There is nothing like the presence of a horse. The quiet understanding. The gentle strength. Woodlake, California...1961. I had a horse. She was my friend. There were times in my teens when Babe was the only being that did not judge me…

I wrote another song but the general reaction suggested that I best "scrap the puppy." So, I salvaged what I could and started over. This is what I got... I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE'S GONE

Still struggling with this one... Maybe not possible to make this work in a country song...MY DICK DON'T KNOW SHE'S GONE 1. She's been gone for three years now. Three years since she walked out Friends and folks I work with ask me what it…

That second chord hurts my pointer finger.

Secret longing can last a lifetime... CLARINDA (Waltz) Capo @ 2 Key G G ? Cm7 G Her name was Clarinda, white skin and golden hair G…

The drug companies make up diseases so I can too. This is somewhere between Sixteen Tons and Coal Tattoo. I don't mean as good a song. I mean the subject... COAL FEVER Key D D D sus D D D sus D When I got the fever I was eight years old…

I found this poem I wrote back before she left. I put music to it and recorded it night before last. Yeah, the high voice is me too. LEAVING Key Am Am Dm He rattles like a tambourine, his…

Some questions and some guesses...about dreams. Video @ https://vimeo.com/214337550/158436839 BETWEEN OUR DREAMS Capo @ 2 KEY F FM7 - When we are born do dreams begin Or was it dreams we dwelt within C - And when we die does dreaming cease…

This song might be better suited for a girl but I don't have a girl anymore. CAREFREE Every time I go out looking for someone who's not like me Someone who's learned to take their time and live their poetry I dream that Care's a monkey…

What's to say? That we actually have anything to do with what our government does? Ha! Even Woody Guthrie knew the truth. They just leave that verse out of his "anthem". No Man's Land Easy come, easy go. Nothing lasts for long Pay your…

Like I wrote a song for a girl and then sang it myself!

Anyone see the pelicans and the dead fish floating in the oil? (In the midst of the Great Gulf Leak.) I'M NOT GONNA CRY Oil-covered pelicans smother Feathered brother. I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna cry Turtles and dolphins and…