Dryland Sailor
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As a dryland sailor
I have sailed across these plains
I have listened to the wind
The music of your voice remains
You’re in the silence of my nights
Oh soft places where I dream
This dryland, this dryland sailor only sails
For the love of his dryland queen
If I should ever become shipwrecked among cornfields
Where that lost row lies between
Just remember this dryland sailor only sails
For the love of his dryland queen
Just remember this dryland sailor always sails
For the love of his dryland queen |
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Still too Hot
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I heard a crash in my dream fan fell to the floor
Had the whiskey sweats from the night before
I heard a train and remembered putting pennies on a
track
Make a necklace for you
just in case that you come back
Well it’s just too hot to think about you today
It’s just too hot to think about you today
We’ll it’s still too hot to think about you
tonight
Still too hot to think
about you tonight
I can’t seem to cry watching too much John Wayne
Maybe I should just step in front of that train
Sweating like a grave digger been shoveling all
day
You might return so I’ve
got to stay
It’s just too hot to think about you today
It’s just too hot to think about you today
Still too hot to think about you tonight
Still too hot to think
about you tonight
Shadows and dreams are the color of smoke in the
rainbow
And
a chain of failure and fear just won’t let me go
A moth on the lampshade with burned wings still wants
the light
But it’s still too hot
to think about you tonight
It’s just too hot to think about you today
Well it’s just too hot to think about you today
It’s still too hot to think about you tonight
Still too hot to think
about you tonight
Just too hot to think about you today
It’s just too hot to think about you today
And it’s still too hot
to think about you tonight
Thunder lightening and rain
Somehow I smile
Still too hot to think
about you tonight |
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Guitar from Mexico
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On this beat up guitar I’m begging you
If this is our last song every word will be true
On this cracked and weathered wood
I will let my feelings
show
These ain’t the first tears on this guitar from
Mexico
I bought it in Reynosa
From an old man on the street
He had two young
children begging at his feet
Music mixed with tears he sang sweet, sad and low
So I gave him all my dollars
for this guitar from Mexico
On this guitar from Mexico
I’m begging you please don’t go
Please don’t go
Down at the pawnshop
It ain’t worth anything
But the old man said teardrops make the angels
hear us sing
Well he must have seen my future cause he let this
old thing go
These ain’t the first
tears on this guitar from Mexico
Don’t you hear the angels telling you not to go
These ain’t the first tears on this guitar from
Mexico No these ain’t the first tears on this guitar from Mexico |
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Devil's Tower Waltz – Double-Click to Play
It’s more than a memory the old kitchen table
Where we poured out our hearts and our souls
In a face that becomes you a place you can come to
When the world is
spinning out of control
And the stories refine us the stories define us
And they teach us to let ourselves go
We can try to deny it we can say I don’t buy it
But it’s the sweetest
psychiatry I know
Those old war stories those wolf at the door
stories
You’ve got your stories to tell
And I know the heartache you can make use of
You won’t let it poison your well
But somewhere in back of the dreams you gave up on
Is the sound of a cracked old church bell
And I’ll be the singer
selling those secrets you haven’t the heart to tell
Now many’s the highway we have set off on they go
out like spokes on a wheel
Then we re-enter return to the center and all that
we know that is real
And the stories remind us the stories define us
Beneath all the weakness we can reveal
Love’s still the answer
now’s still the question your heart still yearns to reveal
Those old love stories those touched from above
stories
You’ve got your stories so well
And I know the mystery runs through your history
And echoes in the old wishing well and somewhere
in back of
The dreams you took up with is a silence of a
season in Hell
I’ll be the singer
selling those secrets you haven’t the heart to tell |
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Clowns in the Rain – Double-Click to Play
When you come into this town you go crazy
A clown laughing out his fears
The bosses lock you outside their circus
Waiting for you to
disappear
They say that your tears are hideous
And your smile needs a new coat of paint
As you buy Big Macs like cotton candy
And hand them out under
the bridge like a drunken saint
The pigeons don’t fly in your presence
They seem to welcome you to their roost
They see that you’re a crying clown
Or an Indian warrior
with no modern use
Clowns paint their smiles but the color it runs in
the rain
That’s why you have those little umbrellas
And feather buckets cause it’s a game
Outside clowns melt in
the rain
You ran out of money for Big Macs
So they sent you home on a plane
Now you’re looking for a rodeo or a circus
Just trying to stay out
of the rain
Clowns paint their smile but the paint always runs
in the rain
That’s why you have those little umbrellas
And feather buckets and it’s a game
Outside clowns melt in
the rain
Clowns paint their smile but the color it runs in
the rain
That’s why you have those little umbrellas
And buckets for feathers cause it’s a game
Outside clowns melt in the rain
Stay out of the rain |
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Crossing the Prairie
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I had a dream but I lost the plan
I speak a language I don’t understand
I spend all my time
crossing the prairie
Abandoned places you can see the bones
Corporate farms nobody’s home that’s the way it is
now
Crossing the prairie
The white man comes and the Indians go
The tourists roll by just to see the show
There’s pretty farm girls but before they know
Just how hard that cold wind blows they marry
We all dream of crossing
the prairie
I
learned a bit it seems I can’t teach
The coyotes eat all that they can reach
They leave me hungry crossing the prairie
When the twinkle stars are my campfire
And me and the Chief can’t get no higher
You’ll see us crossing
the prairie
The white man comes and the Indians go
The tourists roll by just to see the show
There’s pretty farm girls but before they know
Just how hard that cold wind blows they marry
We all dream of crossing the prairie
We all dream of crossing the prairie
We all dream of crossing
the prairie |
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Back Door Man - Double-Click to PlayKnock on the back door in the morning Any time after 7:00 Cause if you’re feeling like hell He’ll sell you a shot of heaven Listen for his shaking hand As he unlocks the door He’ll tell you strange secrets As he runs a mop across the floor
Back door man feeds a stray dog Last night's steak bones And he’ll serve you a cold one For that thirst that don’t leave you alone Knock on the back door Harold are you in there
He’ll tell you of ladies lost And the memories they carry But the only one that interests you Is that one called Bloody Mary
Back door man feeds a stray dog Last night's steak bones He’ll serve you a cold one For that thirst that don’t leave you alone Knock on the back door Knock on the back door
He ain’t pretty in the morning light His face is cracked like worn leather He’ll let you sleep in the corner booth If you’ve been fightin’ off the weather
Back door man feeds a stray dog Last night's steak bones He’ll serve you a cold one For that thirst that don’t leave you alone Knock on the back door |
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Another Thing that Bothers Me – Double-Click to Play
They’re moving stained glass windows out of an old
church
Light will filter different; birds will find
another place to perch
But I don’t believe that stained glass will look
the same facing east
Well that’s another thing that bothers me the most
That should bother me
the least
Angels in the colored light they whisper sunshine
Cool colors of forever on the sale of time
Well I don’t believe that stained glass can really
tame the beast
Well that’s another thing that bothers me the most
That should bother me
the least
Taking stained glass windows out of an old church
Light will filter different; birds will find
another place to perch
But I don’t believe that stained glass will look
the same facing east
Well that’s another thing that bothers me the most
That should bother me the least
Well that’s another thing that bothers me the most
That should bother me
the least |
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Give me Back my Colors – Double-Click to PlayGive me back my colors I won’t draw on the walls Disconnect the answer box And I will take my calls
Show me something close to love And I’ll try to believe Give me back my colors And I won’t have to leave
Give me back my colors Let’s break the blue in half I’ll try to crack the funnies If I remember how to laugh The clock inside my soul says Its 5 to the end Give me back my colors And I’ll count you as a friend
Give me back my colors I’ll stay inside the lines I’ll draw cartoon characters and pretty Valentines
Show me something close to love And I’ll try to believe Give me back my colors And I won’t have to leave
Give me back my colors And I won’t have to leave |
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If Crazy Horse Died
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The campfires burnin’ smokeless
Wind is fanning the flames
Spirits ride in the darkness
All across these plains
Some cowboys will tell you
Of horses that nearly killed ‘em for the ride
Go ahead and ask them if
Crazy Horse died
Winds of the Missouri
The August sun was burning up the grass
And the coyotes he’s still calling
And wait for the cottontails to pass
And rattlesnake circles around you
And comes up on your back side
Don’t that cause you to
wonder if Crazy Horse died
They never had no photographs
Now we’re carving him in stone
Uncle Sam would like a piece of that
They keep chipping all alone
Now the campfires burn smokeless
Into eternity they ride
When you see that mountain
You wonder if Crazy Horse died
When you see that statue
You wonder if Crazy Horse died
When you see that mountain
When you see that mountain Oh Crazy Horse |
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No Sunlight – Double-Click to PlayWhen the sheriff comes looking for me Cry and say that I’m low down There ain’t no sunlight When you’re living underground
Like a horse with no stable And a glue factory fate I run when I’m able Shake this hitch in my gate
I’ve been running so long Been given the runaround There ain’t no sunlight When you’re living underground
I rode through youth searching for beauty Wild cactus can’t hardly pierce my tongue Call it misguided duty This learning how to run
I’ve been running so long Been given the runaround There ain’t no sunlight When you’re living underground
Tell the man you walk the dog of indecision But in the end I made the choice When I said that I was leaving I could have sworn it was your voice
So here’s a shot of money Don’t ask where it comes from Well I strapped on a holster I just need to find me a gun
I’ve been running so long Been given the runaround There ain’t no sunlight When you’re living underground There ain’t no sunlight |
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Throw a Lasso
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He was dreaming about a woman
Slipping through his fingers on the day that he
died
And the wind masters sent the rain and on and on
it fell
‘Til it matched the tears that she cried
Then a ghost told me in a language I could
understand
About things beyond our
control
Said throw a lasso from Deadwood to El Paso
Cause that’s the size of
a human soul.
We’ve seen a face in the planets and the stars
We’ve felt the heat of the pulse
I’ve seen the wisp of smoke of promised
resurrection
But it’s only flown so close
And a scarecrow explains about the garden
And why a rabbit digs a
hole
Said throw a lasso from Deadwood to El Paso
Cause that’s the size of
a human soul.
Deadwood Bill Hickock died holding aces and eights
In poker that’s a deadman’s hand
Well Eddie from El Paso fell to his death
Holding a woman’s love
he could not understand
Said throw a lasso from Deadwood to El Paso
Cause that’s the size of a human soul.
Said throw a lasso from Deadwood to El Paso
Cause that’s the size of a human soul.
Throw a lasso from
Deadwood to El Paso |
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Cosmic Interference
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I make my own choices I answer distant voices Keep the present with the past I gamble on my impulse I’ve won the right to hold you close The only luck that I’ve made last
Is it divine guidance or cosmic interference Is it AM or FM The Wizard of Oz or Auntie Em I don’t know but I can hear it When it’s coming through It’s telling me to hold on to you
Well the full moon brings out lunacy It’s done that at times to me I’ve barked all night to hear the sound You must have known there was a stage And someday I would act my age And get my feet back on the ground
Is it divine guidance or cosmic interference Is it AM or FM The Wizard of Oz or Auntie Em I don’t know but I can hear it When it’s coming through It’s telling me to hold on to you
Is it divine guidance or cosmic interference Is it AM or FM The Wizard of Oz or Auntie Em I don’t know but I can hear it When it’s coming through It’s telling me to hold on to you
Is it divine guidance or cosmic interference Is it divine guidance or cosmic interference Is it divine guidance or cosmic interference |
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Frequent Flyer Miles – Double-Click to PlayThat last time I saw her She was salty as the ocean That framed her in a blue silhouette I should not have told him cause he’d been flying low Searching for ways to forget
Cause when he talks about her he trembles as he smiles He’s been picking up those frequent flyer miles
The way a swimsuit fits against a woman when she’s wet Dances through my lonely dreams at night And only lines of misery waltz across his forehead As her memory came back in to sight
Cause when he talks about her he trembles as he smiles He’s been picking up those frequent flyer miles
He’s flying at those same parties Where she led him away Put a rainbow in his life Now his flying colors are mostly blues and grey I do believe he’ll put his landing gear down When he tires of flying so low As he nears touch down we’ll see his true colors Identify the guy we used to know
When he talks about her he trembles as he smiles He’s been picking up those frequent flyer miles He’s been picking up those frequent flyer miles |
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Footprints in the Snow
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On an old metal stagecoach I was driving for the
King of the Road
Pulling into Sarasota barely time to unload
Well I heard him tell somebody about somebody who
really played guitar
And I hung on every word
like you do rubbing elbows with the stars
Nashville and Broadway are a long way from the
Oklahoma hills
Through the cracks in his voice I heard the ghosts
of the whiskey and the pills
Well he left those ghosts behind him whistling
down the huckleberry wind
Singing dang me all
those little green apples that’ll never taste that way again
Now you might be a player son and sometimes the
play is just for show
With a tailwind of applause and always one more
place to go
Well you may be a player son there’s one thing a
player may not know
You can dazzle all the
players and never leave no footprints in the snow
The huckleberry wind blew cold and I felt an early
winter coming on
Well an old friend stopped by and I was told old
Roger Miller’s gone
Well I sung along with all those crazy songs
Drove that stagecoach anywhere he’d go
Now the winter wind is blowing strong
I’m looking for those
footprints in the snow
Now you might be a player son and sometimes the
play is just for show
With a tailwind of applause and always one more
place to go
You may be a player son here’s one thing a player
may not know
You can dazzle all the players and never leave no
footprints in the snow
You can dazzle all the young cats never leave no
footprints in the snow
You can dazzle all the
young girls never leave no footprints in the snow |
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