“ON THE SMOKEY SIDE OF THE HILL”

I found a place I am happy

A place I can cope

It don’t rot my innards

It’s just budded green dope

Just inhale real deep

Ain’t no hill too steep

Don’t need no booze

Don’t need no pills

On the smokey

On the smokey

Side of the hill

(Chorus)

With my sweet love in tow

We gonna go

Where the green grass grows

And a slow waltz can still cause a thrill

On the smokey

On the smokey

Side of the hill

I’m gonna dawdle which means wastin’ time

I’m gonna tarry which means lag behind

It’s just how I am

I smoke my fill

On the smokey

On the smokey

Side of the hill

I found a place I am hungry

Everything’s very still

I don’t hate nobody

Time’s all I wanna kill

If you wanna find me

You know where I’ll be

I told you I will

I’m tellin’ ya still

I’m on the smokey

On the smokey

Side of the hill

She’s still my thrill

And love her I will

On the smokey

On the smokey

Side of the hill

“WHEN I’M COMIN’ DOWN I THINK OF YOU”

(Chorus)

When I’m comin’ down I think of you

And my world is oh so blue

I long for your lovin’ arms to hold me

The way they held me when I was comin’ down with you

The woman I loved, she left me

That started this binge drinkin’ that I do

I know you had to straighten up and start your life anew

When I’m comin’ down I think of you

When you went away I thought I’d rest

The love we knew really put us to the test

I’m still strugglin’ with those same old things we used to do

And when I’m comin’ down I think of you

I’m wanderin’ the halls and up the stairs

Searchin’ for your sweetness everywhere

How I loved to hold you when I was feelin’ blue

And when I’m comin’ down I think of you

My heart keeps hopin’ someday you’ll come back to me

But my mind knows that will never be

I’d a done things different if I only knew

When I’m comin’ down I think of you

“I GUESS I CAME BACK JUST TO SEE”

(Chorus)

I guess I came back just to see

What was left here for me

There’s less than nothin’ at all

And no need to stay for last call

And nothin’ at all can explain    

This loneliness inside my brain

But I reckon it has set me free

I guess I came back just to see

I drank like I did long ago

Called some old friends I used to know

Now I know why I longed to be free

There ain’t nothin’ in this town for me

I could skin that old tractor again

But it’s a bad place I’ve already been

This town’s a ghost ship out on the sea

I guess I came back just to see

I reckon I must enjoy pain

Or the circuits ain’t right in my brain

But to walk down this memory lane

I must be downright insane

I’m tryin’ to be friendly and all

Still no need to stay for last call

I’ll just let it be what it be

I guess I came back just to see

Tomorrow I reckon I’ll go

Won’t be letting nobody know

They’ll just all do what they do

I’m finding me something new

If I stay it’ll trap me I’m sure

For this dead end there ain’t no cure

Ain’t nobody gonna miss me

I guess I came back just to see

“THE D.T.’s”

I pulled out of Austin in the mornin’

Rain was comin’ down, skies were grey

Headin’ back a failure to California

Hands shakin’, guts hurtin’ in a real bad way

(Chorus)

So tonight I am singin’ bout the d.t.’s

The d.t.’s can drive a man insane

Cartoon spiders are comin’ down from my ceilin’

And boogiemen are playin’ in my brain

Stoned I wrote this song in Burnet Texas

Coors Light cans pilin’ up by my bed

Thought I better write her down ‘fore I forgot her

As the d.t.’s was runnin’ through my head

My heart is fibrillatin’, flippin’ floppin’

Nothin’ in my body’s feelin’ right

Think I’m gonna smoke myself a green bud

Maybe I can get some sleep tonight

“CANADIAN WHISKEY”

Seagram’s V.O.

Canadian Whiskey

Goin’ down smooth

Tomorrow’s gonna be a long long day

Couldn’t sleep again tonight

Ain’t been feelin’ right

Thinkin’ of you again

Can’t forget you

There’s no way

Mmm mmm, Seagram’s V.O.

I didn’t buy

I know your influence is somewhere

In every song I’ve wrote

And a part of you is in the cry

I try to put in every note

You’re really why I am

Everything I am

What I say is true

I’m because of you

And I love you

Mmm mmm, Canadian Whiskey

Found it in a cupboard

Canadian whiskey

I didn’t buy

Must be my lucky day

Canadian whiskey

Gonna make me cry

Gonna drink it anyway

And when the sun goes down

On this warm summer night

I hope you’re doin’ well

As my coal burns out of sight

Maybe in another time

If the moons were right

I still feel blue

I miss you

And I love you

Mmm mmm, Canadian Whiskey

Goin’ down smooth

Tomorrow’s gonna be a long long day….

“PEARL DeVERE”

(Chorus)

I’ll rob a bank to go and see Pearl DeVere

Take my booty down to Meyers Avenue

Twenty five cents will get you somethin’ here

Somethin’ just won’t do

Gonna go and have a drink inside The Old Homestead

The paper on the walls comes from France

The best beefsteaks, whiskey and the softest beds

Gonna pick myself a gal and have a dance

Two hundred and fifty dollars for a lovely night

For Cripple Creek Colorado I’m headin’ out

I heard it’s what they call the gentlemen’s delight

Gotta go and see what the hell that’s all about

Gonna ride my pony hard when my deed is done

I’ll not be goin’ back to brandin’ steers

Someday they’ll gun me down out on the run

My fondest memory will be of Pearl DeVere

“LONESOME CHRISTMAS TREE”

What a lonesome Christmas tree

From a season now days past

Holiday joy like Christmas snow

They weren’t bound to last

Look at my old Christmas tree

Its lights have all turned blue

But it ain’t half as lonesome

As the night that I lost you

(Chorus)

Lonesome Christmas tree

Brings lonesome memories

Why can’t they let me be

Happy again

Lonesome Christmas tree

No presents beneath your limbs

Wonderin’ where she’s been

I guess it’s lonesome time again

I got pretty Christmas lights

But I can’t turn em on

Because like your love and Christmas

They’ve both long since gone

The holidays ain’t over

There’ll soon be a New Years ball

But I’ll be dyin’ like my tree

Whose needles will soon fall

Why they ever took you

From your pretty mountain home

From a winter wonderland

To a drunk man livin’ all alone

All this seasons dressed like

Tinsel and holly leaves

You know old tree if I could

I’d surely set you free

“WELCOME TO PURGATORY”

I won’t name no names

And I can’t pass no blame

But the story of this rotten town

I’ll tell it all the same

Weren’t nothin’ good about it

Could have gotten downright gory

And outside of town I saw a sign

‘Welcome To Purgatory’

At first it looked a ghost town

It had a hue of grey

There was just one kind angel

Sharin’ thanksgivin’ day

But soon the sharks was circlin’

Hate like fire in their eyes

Cussin’ women on the street

And beatin’ passer-bys

(Chorus)

One mile to purgatory, two more miles to hell

Pull your blinds, lock your doors, pray your business does well

If you gotta look you won’t see it

But we’ve gotten downright whorey

The signs outside of every town

‘Welcome To Purgatory’

By the grace of God I made my break

Slept in the jungle all alone

I could hear the mean dogs barkin’

And with my big blade I thought of home

Thought of goin’ back and doin’ unforgiven

Clean that village of its vermin

Leave em all right in the street

Cryin’, bloody and squirmin’

Outside of town I didn’t see the sign

I saw on my way in

Some other peaceful soul will see it

Say a prayer for him

God walked with me out of town that night

Beside me in all his glory

I’ll never forget that mournful sign

‘Welcome To Purgatory’

You know that day I needed a friend

I was bleedin’ in the water

They drank with me like the scum they were

Just waitin’ for the slaughter

Lost souls the whole lot of them

And this ain’t no allegory

I don’t think they knew where the hell they were

Welcome to purgatory

Hell is here, it’s always been

Screamin’ in our face

It ain’t underground, or in some cloud

Our shit’s smeared everyplace

Condemn folks who got nothin’

Wrongs done to us keep our inventory

Most will never see the sign

‘Welcome To Purgatory’

Slander, jealousy and greed

Create shrines to our rotten earthly story

The world is hungry, the worlds in pain

Welcome to purgatory

Folks is dyin’ as we wallow in wealth

You may have heard that Bible story

We don’t share a damn thing we’ve got

Welcome to purgatory

Only givin’ thanks we was born ‘lucky?’

Next time might be a different story

Seein’ all the hoarders got

Welcome to purgatory

We ain’t got expiatory

But we’ll try propitiatory

We’ve gotten so damn whorey

Welcome to purgatory

“A STRANGERS CRY”

Rides his pony 

Down life’s lane

Searchin’ for the why

Of all the pain

He knows

He’ll never be the same

An odd fish swimmin’

Strange seas alone

Mind and body

Weary to the bone

Could use a woman

Brain it needs a stone

(Chorus)

For a strangers cry

Is lonelier than pissed out wine

There’s no wonder why

He’s bound to drift alone

There’s a coyote bawlin’

In the pourin’ rain

Sometimes he thinks

He can feel his pain

He knows

He’ll never be the same

His old black dog

Just tags along 

And listens while

He sings his song

Love is all she knows

So on and on they go

And he stares into the heavens

To his only friend the Lord

Wonderin’ why this train he’s ridin’

Has so damn few aboard

There’s jimson weed

And tumbleweeds

But loco weed’s

The kind he needs

To free his brain

The beast thinks he’s insane

Join the party

Join the crowd

Let the hyenas circlin’

Laugh out loud

There ain’t no way

Lord knows he had his day

This old world

She goes ‘round and ‘round

Damn little good within it

He has found

She’s a sad sad song

The joke goes on and on

From the dust

Dust he’ll return

If it has to happen

Let them fires burn

Just drift away

Away, away, away

“SAD ENDING?”

Sad ending?

Ain’t sad at all!

Oh God

Let this curtain fall

Angels of mercy

I’ll go where I’m from

Worry ‘bout me?

This tour is done!

If I ‘own’ a thing

Give to the poor

For journeys undone

They’ll need it more

Sad ending?

Absurdity!

This stink below?

This misery?

A mist in time

Nothin’ more

Turn my hoss out

Close the door

“YOU PRAY FOR ME (I’LL PRAY FOR YOU)"

(Chorus)

You pray for me

I’ll pray for you

The things we’re goin’ through

They ain’t nothin’ new

I think I can see now

I think you can to

You pray for me

I’ll pray for you

Think when we were younger

Look at us now

How folks fought us

We took our roads anyhow

We have never known each other

We will when things are new

I hope that you are happy

I’m tryin’ to be to

I know your beautiful spirit

Will lead where it leads you to

And I believe people

Should do what they should do

I could hold you forever

And for awhile I’ll be blue

You must go where you go

I must to

“DT’n ALONE (10 Days In Hell)"

If I make it through tonight I’m headin’ home

Ten days in hell don’t know where the days have gone

Mind and body weary to the bone

D.T.’n alone, Yaaaa, D.T.’n alone

I am on the bad bad side of town

Outside the door there’s zombies walkin’ round

To paranoid to look outside the door

And for what got me here I’ll be needin’ more

Pictures of misery flippin’ through my mind

A bad woman came for me and not the human kind

I feel like an extra dyin’ nameless in a bar

I can’t even pick up my guitar

And the seconds drag on like hours

Hours feel like days

Ain’t a channel on tv

With one good word to say

D.T.’n alone, Mercy, D.T.’n alone

This just may be my final restin’ place

The poor maid will have to find my cold blue face

Little things are walkin’ cross my bed

I’m wonderin’ if I’m already dead

This time I pushed it way too far I know

I’ll try to sip the next one down real slow

And the booze has took me so far

The weed can’t provide no stone

D.T.’n alone, Yaaaa, D.T.’n alone

I’m goin’ home if I make it through tonight

I wanna be but all this just ain’t right

Ten days in hell and I’m all out of fight

D.T.’n alone, Yaaaa, D.T’n alone

Even worse than D.T.’n on the road

D.T.’n alone, Mercy, D.T.’n alone

“JUST ANOTHER DIRTY CITY (To Me)”

Growin’ up I was lucky

Horizon far as I could see

Now all I see is license

Freedom what we can afford it to be

And I know what’s waitin’ in the next town

What’s waitin’s the same misery

For nothin’ ever changes I have found

It’s just another dirty city to me

(Chorus)

Industry, high technology

Exclusivity, chaosity

Road ragin’ worker bees

Sufferin’s all I see

It’s just another dirty city

To me

For every town is the same

The rich, the hangin’ on, and the poor

And if you don’t tow the mark, if you don’t walk the line

You best get your ass out the door

Strip mall America , the honeycomb homes

Corporate wantin’ productivity

Bend over and take it, get down on your knees

It’s just another dirty city to me

The happy slogans they change

And you can always find some weed

But it’s just another dirty city to me

“NEW YEAR”

What a beautiful day for a new year

But like always I’m just travelin’ on

This old world she seems so content

Anymore in it I don’t belong

I don’t remember cuttin’ no deal with the devil

Or meetin’ at the crossroads alone

So maybe I’m just bein’ paid back

For some long ago seeds that I’ve sewn

Sometimes I wonder if I’m even still livin’

Maybe I’m dead and don’t know

I’ve heard they’ll be no rest for the wicked

And on and on down this road I go

(Chorus)

And Pasadena is sunny

210 makin’ my tires whine

Reckon I could buy me a ticket

But I simply ain’t got the time

No idea where I am goin’

But my mind is already gone

It’s a beautiful day for a New Year

I’ll just keep travelin’ on

I’m keepin’ the demons behind me

By keepin’ my foot to the floor

Thinkin’ when the tank finally runs empty

They’ll be comin’ to settle some score

But dangerous is a man with nothin’ to lose

And I’m bone weary to the core

I may just head down to that crossroad

We’ll draw down on the forever more

I know it’s what the devil is wantin’

And I ain’t scared to be gone

It’s a beautiful day for a New Year

But I’ll just keep travelin’ on

“THE HELL OF THE SEASON”

The hell of the season

Created by man

For the almighty dollar

Folks don’t understand

Are we celebratin’ each other?

For all our wicked ways

We should be lovin’ our brothers

On this Christmas day

The hell of the season

Then the star shined bright

The best gift we could ever have

Was born that cold night

Give that money to the poor

Is what he would say

To the meek who really need it

Follow ‘the way’

The hell of the season

We couldn’t be more wrong

Showerin’ each other with gifts

While so many long

The stink of the season

Could be washed away

If we just did what’s right

But there ain’t no way

And we’ll justify

Why we got all we got

And why they have not

Someday we’ll be in their lot

Bellies are empty

Babies are cryin’

Army’s gearin’ up

For killin’ and dyin’

The hell of the season

The world’s hungry tonight

And Santy can’t do

What we know would be right

The hell of the season

So many cry

We won’t have no reason

No alibi

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the fucking way

Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way to hell

“AUTOBIOGRAPHY (The 'Ole Horned Toad)”

Ramblin’ down life’s short road

My wrong turns is what I sing

I'd never ever go back

I wouldn’t change a thing

‘Cause all the things I’ve done before

I wouldn’t wanna do again

I got no desire to be goin’ back

Where I’ve already been

(Chorus)

Gonna tie a little red ribbon

‘Round the ‘ole horny toad

She’s been a painful journey

She’s been a rocky road

Gonna float above the stars

Shuck this earthly load

Gonna tie a little red ribbon

'Round the 'ole horny toad

Just wanna live what days I’ve got

Play my old guitar

And all the shit I’ve left behind

Is best left where it are

Don’t wanna re-do nothin’

Lookin’ forward to bein’ free

Shove the sermon and the headstone

Please don't remember me

I had to go through those seasons

Or I wouldn’t know what I know

I’d like to pull out my lovin’ thing

And let this world give me a blow

Gonna fill my cup with peace and love

And drink it down real slow

Gonna tie a little red ribbon

‘Round the ‘ole horny toad

“PORNSTAR”

She didn’t come to be a pornstar

The buzzards found her broke along the road

And the beauty that God gave her

She’s had to bear that load

Thinkin' she knew a thing or two

Now seein' all she didn't know

She didn't come to be a pornstar

The buzzards found her broke along the road

A thumbnail across the internet

Her naked glory for all to see

She’ll soon be makin’ movies

Some backstreet dvd

Ain’t gonna win no Oscar

Star in some theatrical role

Starvin’ on the boulevard

The buzzards took her soul

So she grins, moans and takes it

Hides the pain she feels inside

And thinks of dreams lost long ago

As the stud horse takes his ride

She came with good intentions

And her talent she tried to show

Now there's just work to be done

Sometimes four or five in a row

She didn’t come to be a pornstar

The buzzards found her broke along the road

And the beauty that God gave her

She’ll have to bare that load

“WHEN THE BLUES ARE GONE”

(Chorus)