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Track listing
Heaven Ain’t Really Blue
Route 49
Too Much Blues
Mr. Elemeno
Caveman
Salieri
The Next Ride
River
Bad Voodoo/Monkey Boy
If You Always Do
Big Muddy
Heaven Ain’t Really Blue
The larch on it’s slope, the last rays of hope
HARB
The monk in his lair, a sorrowful prayer
HARB
The bull and his ilk, need manna and milk
HARB
Blue humans true, with nothing to do
HARB---- CHORUS
Oh--- no room to complain
Mansions are ready, need I explain?
The yak in the zoo, a wallaby roo wallow, wallow, wallow R.A.
HARB
A moose on a plain (plane?) a sandy hill crane
HARB
An octopus pest, an amoeba stat rest
HARB
The skunk in his cave, had nothing to save
HARB
An aroma or two, has flown up the flue
HARB
You know the rest, I can’t stand the test, and heaven ain’t really blue
Route 49
The darkest place in the whole wide world
Is on the highway west of Longpine chorus
Take it slow, save your load on that
It’s a hairpin curve, route 49
When you run through the badlands, don’t do it at night
Pull over take a load off, wait for daylight
Last year I came through Longpine on a west coast run
Way behind time and under the gun
Repeat chorus
I hit the top[ of Lost canyon at
the stroke of
I was laying on the jake brake to hold that curve tight
I couldn’t see a thing it was like a black hole
The drivers were off the shoulder and I started to roll.
Spoken- So it’s not from any earthly place this tale to you I tell
There’s no truck stops here no ice cold beer- just that diesel smell
No, I’m in the one place black as Longpine
I’, here for quite a spell- My new address …… well,,,,,,
Too Much Blues
Too much bad news through my mailbox
Too much bad news through my phone
Not much bad news when we’re together
Too much bad news when we’re alone
Chorus
Too much bad news about where I’m going
About the same about where I land
Don’t matter where I has been
Where I am and where I stand
Don’t remind me, thanks a lot
What is and what’s what
I’m only going home
Too much bad news
Through my window
Too much through my door
Too much bad news
Don’t pay attention
Too much don’t matter anymore
Repeat chorus
Mr Elemeno uptempo country rock beat with skank
“The truth hurts
and I told you the truth, son.
For what it’s worth,
You are not ready for it
Afraid it might hurt
You needed to see it.
It’s hard to see your truth
Is a lie
Chorus
He’s pounding sand
he’s played his hand
The curtain rises
And leaves you standing ,
So alone
The hidden surprises
Await you
You must go
He’s borrowed my temper Stage presence and grit
I’ll hope more ambition and common sense: to whit-
The alphabet boy Is in overdrive now
God give him the wisdom That words will allow.
Repeat chorus
Just for a moment
I saw some restraint
Always and always
Never a complaint
Caveman Rockabilly heavy Tremolo
On the banks of an inland sea
Got the cosmic blues,
And a prehistoric beat
Cave man he’s watching the river flow
on a long gone
Ocean beach.
Used to be the swamp
Used to be the floor
For the last millennium
It’s a cro magnon eyesore
Northern tropics
They’re not any more
Palm trees are corn fields
People stay indoors.
Cave man beating on the bones
Caveman knows he ain’t alone
Caveman skin caveman wires
Caveman got the woman he desires
OOOOOH caveman
Oooooooooooooooooooooh caveman
Where you going with that club in your hand?
Repeat 1st verse oooh caveman
Salieri jazzy swing stray cat progression
He walks the walk
And talks the talk,
Even better than you.
But at party time
When it’s on
What stands up? And who?
On the top
In the middle
Never stop
Never fiddle
Piano forte
Guitar bends
Salieri in the end
Salieri
Packs his tent
Never broken
Only bent
He breaks down
His old devices
New way
Is what his advice is
Only matters that you strive Chorus
To be your best
It’s none of mine’
Salieri
Where’d you go
Salieri
When did you know?
The Next Ride
When is the next ride comin?
I’ve been standing on this shoulder with my old guitar case
This time, I’m nearly done in.
There’s no need to hurry, I’m already late
Hiway 20 stretches out across the state
After a life time of curves, there’s no use going straight
The Next Ride’s coming slow, is it this truck rolling down the line chorus
That’s gonna get me home? Is it slowing down…
I spent last night in Gordon
Played til closing time at the Sandhills saloon
First light out on the hiway
Half a mile from town, that pale fading moon
Lonesome feeling grabs me
Leaves me feeling loose
Feeling like a bull that’s been too long in the chutes
Repeat chorus twice
River
Intro Waltz tempo oldtimey
There in the buffalo falls
Look off this cliff.
where Crazy Horse still calls
Happy endings Vs 1
Those were getting hard to find.
All those memories,
Hard to leave behind.
Frenchy on the way to Coeur De Alene
In the springtime of the year
Floated back with many pelts,
Saw his stick floated here.
Blackbird dances
High up on the hill
far above that muddy river
see the spirit fill
Chorus
Muddy river waits
Cover up our fates
Muddy water cries
Carry off our lives
So for 20 years I’ve trapped and traded
Through these sandy hills
Watch the seasons
The village raided
The boats go by and still
Settle on the
Bottomland home.
Still settled, on that
Bad voodoo/ monkey boy Reggae key of g
That bad voodoo boy, that bad monkey too
They living next door Feel that aura, next to me and you
That bad jujuwwuwwuuuu boyyyy
“Don’t send it across the fence, no Over the hedge, NO
Don’t send it along the wire Don’t send me no hellfire
That bad voodoo boy He come in here too Chorus
Bad voodoo boy He’s someone you knew
Voodoo boy wonders Voodoo boy taints
Voodoo boy has no worries Voodoo boy seldom feints
Can you ask him to go?
Do you want him to?
There’s a bit off voodoo boy
In every one of you
Bad voodoo boy knows Bad Monkey too
Bad Monkey live way down in the bowels of the zoo
Live the bad monkey’s
Which won’t be seen by you
Stuck in the bottom Of a dark zoo hole
Because the bad monkeys are out of control
One monkey there cause he like to fling feces
At the paying customer, from the human species
One monkey sent down for public flagellation
Nother monkey flings his veggie rations
Neither monkey has any appreciation
For the rules of human nation
Each monkey did something you don’t want to see oooowhee ooowhee !
repeat
Is the monkey, in the zoo ? Is he on the sofa with you?
Zoo shut down
No monkeys left
People on their own it seems
Wild creature town
Your monkey pet
Running from the high beams
Repeat chorus
That bad voodoo boy owwwhoo he’s bad owwwo
If you Always Do
If you always do, what you always do
You will always get, what you always get
If you always meet, who you always meet
Then your minds made up, go on and take a seat.
Days go by and repeat, repeat, repeat-
If you always do what you always do,
You will always see-- you know who
And if you always do, what you always do
You will always be, a you know who
I know what keeps you away baby, I know what keeps you awake
(late at night) I know what clouds your mind
let you thoughts go round and round, and wind
No solution there dissolution where the sun don’t shine
And if you always do, what you always do
You will always get, a little you know who
And if you always meet who you always meet
Then your mind is set, go on and take a seat
Repeat these last two
You know it’s hard to see, it’s hard to see, it’s hard to see
Big Muddy
I’ve floated
Slowly spinning
Down your deep curves
Under a halo of stars
On moonlit summer nights
Not wanting to go home.
I’ve skipped stones
Over your eddies
My booted footsteps breaking the skim ice
On sand bars as big as football fields.
I was watched over
By wintering Bald eagles
Framed by the frozen sky
Reddening at dusk.
I’ve seen you river,
Wild at Ponca
Left free all over your wide valley.
I’ve see your birthplace at 3 forks
3 mountain streams uniting
to rush to
which is neither great
or a falls anymore
Here near home
River city
You are channeled, confined, sadly tame.
Yet, for me, you were my wilderness
My unsettled territory.
My city kid imagination
Would not see the grain elevators
The marinas and the barges.
In my mind you could still be the river
That beckoned Lewis
Enchanted
The
A thousand council fires,
And the lookouts
Of long lost