Little Lizzie Mae (w/TBC video)

Little Lizzie Mae, what games you play
It's hard to tell just when the rules will change
It's hard to watch you taking all my money
It's hard to listen when you call me honey

Little Lizzie Mae, what did you say
That sent them runnin'down the road today
Did you accuse Sir Lionel and his drunken lady
Did you tell Fair Margaret that her bus was waiting

Did you tell 'em that The Peacock was burnin' down
That two cruel brothers have come to town
Did you tell them that the raven has taken wing
And flown off with their precious things

Would you could you Little Lizzie Mae spend some time with me?
I know it won't last too long and you might be the death of me
Don't you make me say please

Little Lizzie Mae, get out the way
Got things to do down on the farm today
Got something cookin' down in the basement
Some black magic recipe
And if you act nice I might let you taste it
And you can tell me what it is you see

Did you see the view from Empire's Inn
Did you make the shadows your friend
Did you touch the ash feel the snake
Did you see the lightning over the lake

Would you could you Little Lizzie Mae spend some time with me?
I know it won't last too long and you might be the death of me
Don't you make me say please

Little Lizzie Mae, it's time to pay
Your debt is due there's no other way
So stop your weeping, and stop your pleading
And get out back cause my dogs need feedin'

Poor Elijah - Tribute to Robert Johnson

Poor Elijah, living on the bayou way.
Poor Elijah, he had to take over raising fourteen kids
When his daddy got caught stealing chickens from a neighbor one day.
Work on Elijah, work on.

Poor Elijah, born the son of a slave.
Poor Elijah, he was damn near blind when he died last week
From working in the sun for the man like a dog all day.
Work on Elijah, work on.

Poor Elijah.
Poor Elijah.
Poor Elijah.
Poor Elijah.

(b) Tribute

I'm going to sing you a song, listen to me.
I said it's all about a man.
Nobody, I said nobody hardly knows him.
Say it with me: nobody hardly knows him.
Say it one more time: nobody hardly knows him.

Good morning Robert Johnson son.
You built your life before your song was sung.
People agree and now you're number one.
So sad to think we had to wait so long.

It keeps on getting better every day,
And maybe someday soon, people will say,
Ain't nobody here but good people.
Ain't nobody here but good people.
Ain't nobody here but good people.

No, nobody here.
No, nobody here.
No, nobody here.
No, nobody here.

Just drinking your wine and then loving in slow motion.

Train Robbers

I think I'll rob a train and move to South America
Wander off in the rain, come off smiling and dry
Legend, fortune, and fame I can be the stuff of headlines
Another household name to be discarded with time


CHORUS

If there's one thing I've learned in this life of crime
When it's all over split up the money and go your own way
If you get caught don't say nothing, just stay in line
Take a chance 'cause you can make your next getaway

I must admit it's strange these visions of empty ballrooms
And the sound of a sad refrain like a smoke ring floating by
But the omen already came in the form of a pear tree
That grows out of a cave until a crystal waterfall

CHORUS

And as a child I dreamed that I was Geronimo
And all the gifts I received were from my enemies and all my friends alike

CHORUS

Goodbye Wheeling

Well I've been reeling, around Wheeling,
West Virginia, just a little too long
Well I gotta be leaving, cuz one deceiving
Three wheeling woman gone done me wrong

So its goodbye Wheeling, West Virginia
I don't guess I'll settle down
She don't believe me, but I can't see me
Hey little longer hanging 'round this ole town

Cause I gotta feeling been concealing
Many thoughts about traveling on
Cause things ain't groovin,' so I better be movin
When I wake up in the morning then Wheeling I'm gonna be gone

I've been reeling West Virginia
I don't guess I'll settle down
She dont need me, I cant see me
Hey little longer hanging round this ole town

I gotta feeling, been concealing
Many thoughts about travelling on
Cause things ain't groovin', so I better be movin'
When I wake up in the morning then Wheeling I'm gonna be gone

100 Days of Rain

Pacific standard time
Georgia, state line
Thread the needle, riddle my rhyme
Come knock on my door

The fools finger wears the crown
Time to tie your ribbons round
Around the sun around the moon
Around our love

CHORUS
100 days of rain in front of me
I've been thru this storm before
Blow a kiss and wave goodbye to me
Oh soon I'll be outside your door

Pick an apple bruise a peach
You can't learn what you can't teach
The same dinner its a feast
just like ????

Hanging on to the hanging on
You can't make right unless you know wrong
You can't join the band unless you sing the song
So let bygones be gone

CHORUS

Very tender lady take my mind and wander
Lay with me until the stars refuse to shine
Be my dream through sweet silver slumber
Beyond this morning past the green walls of time

There is what we're given, what we gave
What you lose what you gain
There is what must be broken, what must be saved
And what's already gone
And what's already gone

100 days of rain in front of me
I've been thru this storm before
Blow a kiss and wave goodbye to me
Morning comes like it has before
The ocean always finds the shore
So let it be forevermore

If Your Wheel Don't Roll

(C.Robinson)

Its a same old scene its the company you keep
its a back stage drive
its too late its too bye?
its funny how the time has changed

like a seasick fool lit up to lose
nothing to gain just a path full of rain
to hide my tears of love for the song

how you gonna go if your wheel dont roll
how u gonna get all down and dream
search yourselves ill dig u a home
we all could use a little sympathy

red wine sunrise hello goodbye
there's salt in your eye
its too late its too bye?
and knowing when to leave well enough alone

so dont ever go lie
there is no time
to find love again hang you're troubles on the wind
sing a song and set your soul free

CHORUS

fire and water tomorrow yesterday
u cant be here if you don't know today
sons and daughters time to find your way
let nothing come between you and the love that you make
oooooooo-ooooo-oo

CHORUS

when the curtain calls and its lights out in the hall
we make way for the day
pack the old guitars away
rest my head dream of my love

Rosalee

(C.Robinson)

Rosalee
You little country thing
Sure 'nuff know how to make me smile

You like the jangle
Of my tamborine
Wont you stay with me a little while

Rosalee
Sugar sweet
How I like to make you'd mine

Take you down
to the county seat
take my name anytime

is the air getting thinner?
are we getting high?
is the air getting thinner?
are we getting high?
is the air getting thinner?
are we getting high?
is air getting thinner?
are we getting high

CHORUS
lord have mercy on this day dreaming man
boots ain't dry from the flood
give you my word to do the best that i can
I understand that this bird in my hand
is better than two in the bush

you might say miss rosalee
sure a sign cuz alright

i like the way
she talks to me
boys blah blah

CHORUS

All downhill to the beach from here
Rosalee
I got something to share and its right here
Oh Rosalee

Is the air getting thinner.....

(C. Robinson)

Eagles on the highway
Got the wind in my hair
Are you going my way?
To way out there
Can we make it on our own?

Coyotes in the canyon
Topanga colored sun
My other one is smiling
Oh that we've begun
Can we roll away the stone?

Are you ready to take wing and fly?
Said are you ready to take the wheel and drive?
Said are you ready baby to see the other side?
Well are you ready to say goodbye?

Circles in the sand dunes
and the night has eyes
The whisper of the desert
never tell you no lie
Can you make it feel like home?

Are you ready to take wing and fly?
Are you ready to take the wheel and drive?
Yea, are you ready baby to see the other side?
Yea, are you ready to say goodbye?

Jump the Turnstile

Smoke-ring halo, sleepiinaday
   empty spaces and aero
Night bird is crying, the eloow remain

The white leather gloves lay the saint in his grave

Pound on a rusty nail in the back room of a...
Nickle a dance pass the jug around
The devils play lazy and they don't bust out

No one's a stranger when it's raining outside
There's a hole in your shoe, so come on inside

CHORUS
Do you know how you feel?
Are you that far gone inside?
Let love make it real
C'mon lets jump the turnstile


???? , Black tun divine
Let loose around me by the pale moonlight
Don't stoke the fire with paper for hands
To build you a boat you need a little dry land

CHORUS

Soft grass lullaby
In the cinnamon sunshine
Rose petal soft
Sickly Sweet
Lovesick Charlie and Teardrop Molly just jumped out of their seat
Jumper out of their seat

Before we are dancing hittne shotsabeer
Flat footed shufflers inblowswellhere
Call myninediamond, call myhartgo
Call me gone and off down the road
Call me gone and off down the road

Reflections on a Broken Mirror

(C. Robinson)

Well big gun powder and the Glasgow girl
A lady of the highway with a string of pearls
Well I aint no modern masterpiece
New surrealist movement in the key of G

Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh
Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Well my baby loves me like an auto-harp
You see she plucks my mind and she strums my heart
We’re both victims of gravity
She’ll never fly away from me

Well you can tell by looking I’m not like the rest
Sometimes a broken mirror, reflects back the best

Well look inside my Chinese box
You have the key to every lock
It’s made of old chestnut and a lacquer top
Well once you stop you can never stop

Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh
Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Well you can tell by looking I’m not like the rest
Sometimes a broken mirror, reflects back the best

A vagabond child, has come back home
A walk through the clouds, in a sky the color of stone

Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh
Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh
Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh
Oooh, ooh ooh ooh oooh

Someday Past The Sunset

(C. Robinson)

Well there's something missing
But they won't drag the river
God sends his children
Out into the street
You can dig all you want
There's no buried hatchets
Just bones on the table
Burnholes in the seats and
I feel weary in the weight of these days

I've been down with dogs
I've been low with toads
And I have walked down the road
The old hermit won't go

I've felt the holy
In infinite spaces
And I read the name
While they all hid their faces

And I feel weary in the weight of these days
And I'm feeling weary in the weight of these days

Will you meet me someday past the sunset
We'll shine like chrome with
Snow white angel wings

Will you meet me someday past the sunset
Known by the known, the dreamers of the dream
And stitch by stitch we work to tear the seam

One hand in the sky
One on the third rail
Your mind can't be free
When your soul is in jail
So long live the chains
Set thy iron free
Long live your king
When he's dead like me

But I feel weary in the weight of these days
Well I feel weary in the weight of these days

Will you meet me someday past the sunset
We ll shine like chrome with
Snow white angel wings

Will you meet me someday past the sunset
Known by the known, the dreamers of the dream
And stitch by stitch we work to tear the seam

Behind the door
Eyes of stone
Listen to the voices
That won't leave you alone
Climb up the vine
That goes straight to your mind
get lost in the jungle
of your own space & time

Well I feel lucky in the weight of these days
Well I feel lucky in the weight of these days

Will you meet me someday past the sunset
We ll shine like chrome with
Snow white angel wings

Will you meet me someday past the sunset
Known by the known, the dreamers of the dream
And stitch by stitch we work to tear the seam

40 Days

Lost in the equinox lightening flash in a blood red sky
Another game of paradox got the angels choosing sides
Last word of a pistol poem
A faded note on a torn back page
And from the mountain rolls the thunder who has escaped its gilded cage
So be safely on your way and heed the words I say

40 days, boys
40 days
You'll have to leave what you can't carry
40 days, boys
40 days
And I hope that you are ready, well are you ready?

Your words are sad with wisdom and as you speak they float away
In to some mystic vision that holds back this heavy rain
You who have never swam the river
You who have never much as cared
You who now seeks solace will find no comfort here
Fear is never kind
As it creeps into your mind

40 days, boys
40 days
You'll have to leave what you can't carry
40 days, boys
40 days
Well I hope that you are ready
Said, are you ready?

How long must I wait?
How long must I wait?
For the river to run dry, for you to look me in the eye.
How long must I wait?

The savage hooks of midnight, have pierced your milk white skin,
tattooed in gold dust splendor
A jeweled thrown you ascend
So be safely on your way and heed the words I say

Tumbleweed In Eden

Sing me a song like the wants of the river
Tell me a tale of the wolves
Make me a gift of arrow and quiver
Love me child of the moon
Bring me the bark from the burnt trees of Mayfair
Recite me ancient verse
Control the powers of wondrous color or unspeakable one word curse

Roll me like a tumbleweed in Eden
All the way home
Roll me like a tumbleweed in Eden
All the way home

Go ring the bells of solom forwarning
Chew on the bitteress roots
Go throw your rope speak in split tongue charming
Go shine your pair of black boots

Roll me like a tumbleweed in Eden
All the way home
Roll me like a tumbleweed in Eden
All the way home
And there I'll stay
Lock me away until the day that you love me

So bring back the days of my emerald wanderings
Dream in a wide open sky
Never forget my drunken stumblings
And I'll see you in the by and by

They Love Each Other

(Garcia/Hunter)

Mary run around, sailin' up and down,
Looking for a shot in some direction.
Got it from the top, it's nothing you can stop,
Lord, you know they made a fine connection.

They love each other,
Lord you can see that it's true,
Lord you can see that it's true,
Lord you can see that it's true.

He could pass his time, around some other line
But you know he choose this place beside her.
Don't get in their way, there's nothing you can say,
Nothing thay you need to add or do.

They love each other
Lord you can see that it's true,
Lord you can see that it's true,
Lord you can see that it's true.

Its' nothing, they explain, it's like a diesel train
you better not be there when it rolls, over,
And when that train rolls in, you wonder where it's been,
You gotta try and see a little further.

Tomorrow Blues

Tomorrow blues you know I got them today
I can't believe what my baby say
Lips are move'n all I hear is goodbye

Been on the road so long my shoes turned to sand
Looking for a good time girl who understands
Looking for a rose in the garden of thorns


You been begging for what you owe
And baby that ain't right
It's time for the truth be told
Time to shed some light
And let it flow tonight
Let me see you
Feel you be you
Before I head out down the line


Tomorrow blues you know I got them right now
If you've been Inside my footprints you'd know that I'm down
Looking up at the moon from a bottom of a well
Tomorrow blues you know I got them again
See I remember when we were best friends
I held her hand she held my tremble 'n heart

Star Crossed Lonely Sailor

Star crossed lonely sailor
You been out to sea too long
There’s no love to save you
When your weather has gone wrong
So you set a course for nothingness
From back from where you came
Where sirens sing a song of love
To remind you of your pain

Silent lighthouse keeper
With your fire burning bright
Ever constant vigil
For lost mariners in the night
In the solitude of misty moods
You talk only to the waves
Who lend an ear while you disappear
Into the dark from which you came

CHORUS
We all have storms
On our horizon
And we all feel the sun
When it begins rising
And we all follow love
Even when it misguides us
But we can’t see the light from here

Tearful grey eyed captain
Blows his lonely horn
His albatross above him
While his crew sleeps safe and warm
Set adrift through murky black
Where the moon is out to play
Where only those pure of heart
Can find their way today

CHORUS

Beware

To you I'm just a memory
Something lost among the leaves
Something found along the way
And so begin these empty pages
At the end of a dream
Watch it slowly fade away
The slight of hand the bait and switch
All the parlor tricks have been played on me
I've seen them come and watched them go
Into the night down a road of stone

Beware, oh take care

I guess it takes a thief to know one
And liars live for broken things
Traitors just smile and smile
The actor has his black mirror
The poet a poison throne
To rule his kingdom alone
But I'm still singing the blues
Dancing that old soft shoe
I'm still drift'n from cloud to cloud
Never looking to come down
From hell to high water
Over that angel bridge
Out into the wilderness

Beware, oh take care

Tulsa Yesterday

Tulsa yesterday tomorrow forever
Today i think i'll take my own sweet time
You can tell by my blues that i'm no beginner
Or just look into my eyes
I learned my lessons in the days back in the dogwood
Left some footprints in the deep red clay
Found my way past the temptations of plenty
Let the sound take me all the way
It's a low down dirty sorrow
To know the real pain of love
Somethings you own some you borrow
Until you let it go
Find a garden let it grow
And what you find
Let it shine
Let your chariot swing low

West wind blow my blood runs cold from to much trouble
West wind blow howl thru my bones tonight

Tulsa yesterday tomorrow forever
Today i think i'll take my own sweet time
You can tell by my shoes that i am a believer
Or just look into my eyes

Star or Stoner

I was 13th at the table when the wine was passed around
Amid an air of suspicion my glance was meet with callous frowns
If I was superstitious I'd be the black cat no one wants hang'n round

Dark whispers in the hallway accusations out of bitter mouths
Strange figures in the doorway a dog barks a drunkard's laugh
There's screaming in the kitchen glass breaks just then the lights go out

Let winter chase butterflies
Let the child believe in lies
Let the road run by my door
I can't stay here anymore

I won't , I won't look back at my dream burning on the side of the road
Sometimes it just goes like that
Falling or flying , star or stone

Close the window just can't hear the highway anymore
Lay beside me and let our fires burn until the dawn

A telephone was ringing a heavy price on the other line
Outside the window a comet shoots across the sky
Between love and hope and money
There's loss and pain and honey
So take a spoonful every time

And if you don't like what you see
Don't come running to me
Cause i'm bound to my own way
I'm a million miles away

I won't i won't look back at my dream burning on the side of the road
Sometimes it just goes like that
Falling or flying , star or stone

Vibration & Light Suite...("eyes of the world" feel)

Fools suffer gladly in the face of fate
So I'll leave it up to chance
If it's all the same I'll leave the way that I came
Not afraid to join the dance

Tears of worry where a smile has been
Prophecies come to pass
Bathed in secrets washed in sin
A mystery to take to task

CHORUS:
Vibration, love & light
Peace thru your darkest night
Vibrations, light & love
Peace in the valley

Another omen on an angry wind
Another debt to pay
At the end you must know where to begin
Another book another page

Tread lightly through the darkened space
Keep a candle on the path
Do not stop until the morning breaks
Take the cloth out of the bell

CHORUS

Beyond the hills, beyond the dales
Beyond space, arriving there

The time has come my brother, time to weep and moan
The inward exodus from our earthly form
Time to hear the music emitted from the spheres
Time to dance like children on our diamond tears
Set fire to the sails, cut the horses free
Run the ship aground and let what ever be
Find a hole in the wall
One that no one knows it there
Pass on to the other side
Of the great nowhere

To lose your wisdom, to lose your way
Forget the dignity that you traded away
Traded for money, traded for gold
Traded for shadow that you now own