Everyday Dreams
Any roadhouse, any gathering ground
Any highway. Any town.
Work week is up folks lay there burdens down
If it’s happening, it’s happening there, where the
promises fill the glasses and the lies fill the air.
You know it’s the same way all the world round.
Everyone laughs, everyone screams, everyone bleeds and everyone dreams . Keeping our balance,
while that pendulum swings . Holding on to our everyday dreams
Annie over there, tending bar,
she is a tie dyed dancer and a 60s child.
She says times may change but they just won’t change me.
There are times on a Friday night when
The local boys in the corner they play one just right.
She releases that bar and she recaptures her light.
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Ancient moon over high plains. Star light fades and daylight gains.
We all need some shelter when times get strange and they can get strange.
We need each other, you know it’s true.
We need each other like the wild things do.
We need each other to make our dreams come true. Yes we do.
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Northern Boy
Born one morn in those Ohio hills,
I’ve been a tinker and a grinder with my granddaddy’s will.
Becky’s hand knit sweater, Buds wing tip shoes ,
Motown found in my Irish blues.
Summertimes we would gather on the porch at Lake James
Water skiing volleyball playing board games
Fires on the beach. Oscar Meyers roasting.
Singing campfire songs and telling stories with ghosts.
Find this northern boy up on the great divide
Among the mountain strong this heart of mine abides
Find this northern boy by a mountain stream
Pickin' in the morning and still, living out the dream
Still picking in the morning and still living out the dream
My dog and I sailed west in a four door Chevy boat
Feeling sorta like my Irish immigrant folks
Heading off into the great unknowing
With a few songs for singing and seeds for sowing
We nestled in a cabin in the tall tall pines that had the worlds best smell when the sun would shine
Felt the pull and saw the star wheel turn, Some lessons I had to live to learn
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For forty years I have scribbled down songs, the pays not bad and the hours aren’t long
It’s times like this that always made the most sense, sitting in a circle singing songs with friends
So I would not change a minute of my traveling round, buckeye boy chases siren sound.
Most fun wins has been my only goal, that and sleeping at night with a happy soul
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Born one morn in those Ohio hills
Grandad's Smile
First light shining on my oils and brush’s
Wondering what to do with this empty canvas
Some days it seems that the thing most clear
Is farthest back in my rear view mirror
I just felt my grandad smile, haven’t felt that feeling in a long long while,
his strong hand upon my shoulder,
reassuring me now that I’m older.
Self made man, MarkTwain style,
and I just felt my grandad smile,I just felt those blue eyes smile
Old tweed sport coat pockets full of treasure
Peppermint drops butterscotch life savers
Ten cent cigars and payday bars, his old yellow almanac his map to the stars
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I have missed my mark a few times that’s true
Grateful and amazed that I made it on thru
Golden rule and my childish ways.
Making the most of everyday
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First light shining on my oils and brush’s ,wondering what to do with tui# empty canvas
For You
If I was a rich man tell you what i’d do
Put my money in a bag, give it all to you
No I’m not a rich man but it ain’t cause I don’t try
I’ll lasso down the moon and the stars from the midnight sky
For You. For you These things I’d do girl,
these things I’d do for you
If I was the sunrise tell you what I do
Pour like honey on this world make it sweet for you
Meet you in the twilight just to hear you sigh
Lasso down the moon and the stars from the midnight sky
For you. For you. These things I’d do girl ,
these things I’d do for you
If I was an eagle tell you what I’d do
Soaring high above this world now that’s a lovely view
From there we see the little things they make this big ball spin
Lasso down the moon and the stars let’s begin to begin
For you. For you. These things I’d do girl ,
these things I’d do for you
If I was a rich man tell you what I’d do I’d put my money in a bag and give it all to you
Yesterdays Road
Kinda like that …woodsmoke on a summer evening
Kinda like that ….song on a new born day
Kinda like that ….flash in the pan that swiftly swirls away
Kinda like that …always moving target
Kinda like that. Should have know time would tell
Kinda like that first word heard was fair thee well
Going going gone down yesterdays road
Going going gone down yesterdays road
Kinda like that ….Friday or that weekend
Kinda like that ….coffee on Sunday morn
Kinda like that…gift of being born
Kinda like that …daffodil in springtime
Kinda like that …Color in the fall
Kinda like that moment when we’re lost in the wonder of it all
Going going gone down yesterdays road
Kinda like that. … New car smell
Kinda like that.…Top down day
Kinda like that … breath deep ,there are storm clouds on the way
But Don’t you feel a change in the wind
Do you sense a shift in time, aren't we finally tired now of the greedy leading the blind
Going going gone down yesterdays road. ( When will they be )
Going going gone down yesterday road
Kinda like that
Spinning of the World
Ma and lil Willy, we’re downtown getting silly
when the winds of change started to blow
First a lil slip. Losing of the grip Willy smiled at me and he said
I like to spend a little time in the eye of the storm.
It’s food for the head
Oh. ..it’s the spinning of world, can you feel it,c an you feel the spinning of the world.
Like a twister its gonna blow, it’s gonna change what we know. And we are not in Kansas anymore
Willy grew up on a farm he was safe from life's harm but he just had to travel the world
That boy always was a dreamer so he hopped aboard a steamer
fell in and out of love with a blue eyed girl
Left her somewhere on the streets of London and headed off to Martinique.
Where the days were warm and the nights were long and the hurricanes unique
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Meanwhile back here on the streets of America homefires burnin' bright
There’s a wind of change bending the tops of the trees and a hush in the evening twilight
Down on the corner there’s an old man dancing thinking back on the life that’s he’s lived.
There’s a time to get in and a time to get out, a time to forget and a time to forgive and blame it on the spinning of the world
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Voices Carry
We might be dyin, but we’re not dead
The light it might be amber, but it’s not turned red
We might be falling but until we hit the ground
I say we keep on singing, if only to hear the sound
Voices Carry, like a mighty wind
Let them bring us together, take us round this bend
Voices carr, so let em ring out clear as a bell, it’s life’s, slice of heaven,
here in what’s beginning to look like hell
I am slow like molasses but I will get er done
Kinda like that tortoise travelling where the rabbits usually run
Put my pants on one leg at a time
Like my granddaddy told me. God loves the simple mind
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There will be more trouble coming somewhere round the bend
But I do expect light for dancing. Til this tunnel ends
And a day of reckoning for all those greedy minds
I think it might be too late for hate if we just sing one right
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Joeys Shadow
September rain. The never summer range, Just kept coming down
Finally split Jim Town, the earth moved with a horrible sound and sent a shining soul back to the ground
Dance Joey dance, shadow on the water
Live on, mountain strong
Dance Joey dance shadow on the water lives on mountain strong
Helicopters came, to take the townsfolks away, gonna be toil and trouble before that town will sing
When the got back down and had time to look around
It was not just that lonely light Pole they found
There by the water bent but breathing, joeys calico shadow and her bright eyed were shining on
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When I first moved to these mountain , this was my home town
Here where the miners and the mystics and the mountain lions roamed around
It’s a terrible beauty a cast iron sunlight and if you think you’re gonna meet and need your neighbors. …you’d be right.
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Some Brighter Day
Song traveler reached for the moon in the sky
In the forest the green leaves rustle
Young mother pulls bright blue sheets off the back yard line
Distant whistles on the wind
Two trains travel down different tracks
They come so close yet leave no trace
It’s just that way for wheels of steel. But human hearts will be revealed
By Some brighter day when there’s time for loving
Some brighter day when the sun shines down
Some brighter day when the ones who say they know ,
are no where to be found …let those dark clouds roll away, behold some brighter day
From where the sun now stands he will fight no more
Too many guns and too much dying
You can think that strong or you can think that weak
Hope it’s an easy call from where your standing
Two trains travel down different tracks
They come so close yet leave no trace
It’s just that way for wheels of steel, human hearts will be revealed
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Home fires burning in those eyes
Stubborn, laughing, wild and dreaming
Traveler heard her woodland song
Found his heart already believin'
Two trains travel down different tracks
They come so close yet leave no trace
It’s just that way for wheels of steel
Human hearts will be revealed