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bookmark_borderThe Stop at The End

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LYRICS
It’s not really the fall
It’s not really the fall at all
The descent from the top
Doesn’t hurt at all
In The End, it’s the sudden stop!

When you hear the thunder roll
Know you’re not lightning’s toll
It’s not the loud clap of the cloud
It’s that bolt that gives the jolt

Never tire of hearing a screeching tire
Unless at last, it ends with a crash
When you call this a near miss
Experience bliss

Will the power devour?
Our chances are…
Our chances our are chances
Advice: think twice
Before doing rain dances

The Stop at The End.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: B7 E / D A E / B E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderGoing Down

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LYRICS
You can sense the clouds’ power
As they tower
Ominous must
When the could bursts bust
It’s going down
The falling down

Belittle Chicken Little?
The sky IS falling
Man, this is no boy
Wolf calling

Hey diddle diddle man in the moon
Can you tell me soon
Need a cat with a fiddle
Dogging on spoons
Answer the riddle
Is it going down
Is it coming down

Going Down.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, PA
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Em G Am D / D Em
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderLeave Well Enough Alone

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LYRICS
Sure, cause all of that jive
Dive into a bee hive
Confess, what a mess
Caught in a state of undress
Now, I hear you moan
Leave well enough alone

Would of, could of, should of
Left well enough alone
Now, the ego is prone
Relationship we call “our”
Is a delicate flower

Leave Well Enough Alone.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E Em7 / A G E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderPromised Place

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LYRICS
IF you ask me
IF you ask me why
Bound to make me cry
IF you ask me
IF you ask me why
I’m just going to die
OH, Lady, please take me
To that promised place…
In the sky

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: F# A B / C#7 B A F#; 120 BPM Blues
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderHold The Nuts

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LYRICS
We’ve got enough nuts
… but what about the jam?
Enough if’s, and’s & butts
But where’s the jam
That’s where I am
If we’re going to get a…
Sand… which?
Land… which?
Understand which?
We’ve got “a” nuts,
Be nuts
See nuts
D, e, f, gee, h, I, j, k, l, m, n, o, pee
Nuts
But where’s the jam
I though you said there was a jam?
Now, here I am….

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Electronic
Chords: B Bb; 109, 100 and various BPM Dance #1
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderNo Brainer

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LYRICS
Have you heard of “no brainer”
This no brainer is a strainer
Scratchin’ my head
Over what he said
Living in delusion
Lively up yourself, don’t be no dread now
Beating on a horse already dead now
Seems to be a lack of marrow
’cause the cavity is too narrow
Solid bone from ear-to-ear
Lack of gray matter I do fear

No Brainer.mp3

No Brainer Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: A C A / D G A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderHell Or High Water

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LYRICS
Come it hell
Because, well
In high water
What’s the matter
If you’re nailed down
You’re going to drown

Wading in… into the flood
Covered by… covered by mud
Better run around
Hatches battened down

When the water’s on the rise
Puts perspective on your size
Soaking in it… up to my eyes

Seems like all will dishevel
Now that we’re past flood level
Come high water
Come it hell

Hell Or High Water.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Em D / D Eb Em / C D Em
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderSuperman

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LYRICS
Do you hear what I hear?
What we need here
… is a superman
More powerful than a loco’s motive
Able to stop a speeding bull$hit
I hear what we need here is a superman
Up, up and away
Here we go
What do you say
Do you know?
Nothing to fear
Grasp the cape of superman
Someway, somehow
What we need now
… is a superman
Look up in the sky
No need to ask why
Not fowl nor fuselage
At large
… superman

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: Am Em Am / D Am
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderOrnithology

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LYRICS
An amazing thing
To hear her sing
Giving choice
Wisdom wealth
With a voice
Yet no mouth
It comes out
… comes about
Travelin’ in time
Through space
Weaving sublime
Queen Anne’s lace

A beautiful thing
Listen to her sing
A soulful “nice”
Heartfelt stealth
With a voice
Yet no mouth
It comes out
… comes about
Travelin’ in time
Through space
Weaving sublime
Queen Anne’s lace

A lovely thing
Sing anything
Picture poise
Nature’s health
With a voice
Yet no mouth
It comes out
… comes about
Travelin’ in time
Through space
Weaving sublime
Queen Anne’s lace

With a voice
Yet no mouth
It comes out
… comes about

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: E7 E / A D G / D G / D G A / A C E / E C A D G; 99 BPM Digi-rock Beat
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderSpace Tripping

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LYRICS
Pack up your O2 and gravity
If you want to come with me
’cause where we’re going
There is no trace
Steadfast in the vast
Depths of space

Matador, open the door
Take the bull by the horns
Less your entrails they adorn
Will we ever, ever learn?

Bring along friction and relativity
Alien diction for clarity
’cause where we’re going
There is no trace
Steadfast in the vast
Depths of space

Hoping that one of us is genius
Alas, this giant rocket science
And where we’re going there is no race
Steadfast in the vast
Depths of space

Space Tripping.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Progressive Folk
Chords: C G / Am Em / Em Am
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo

Vocals, Guitar

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderRed Sky

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LYRICS
Red sky in the evening
Wailers’ delight
Red sky in the morning
Give wailers a fright
Learning to heed warning
She’s telling you, “Here’s a clue!”
Natural forecast is coming on fast
She’s telling you, “Here’s a clue!”
Natural forecast is coming at last

Red sky in the morning
Wailers take warning
Red sky at night
Give wailers delight
She’s telling you, “Here’s a clue!”
Natural forecast is coming on fast
She’s telling you, “Hear’s a clue!”
Natural forecast is coming at last

Red Sky.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Country Folk
Chords: C G / C G D A C E A / D A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, Pennsylvania on the 2018 summer solstice.
Vocals, Guitar

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderRunning Low

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LYRICS
Can you run to the store
And get some more?
Wouldn’t you know
Supplies run low
Don’t want to cry
Thinking I’ll die
The depth and breadth
Of starving to death

Look at the shelves
There’s nothing there
Open the cupboard
Completely bare
Go to the pantry
There’s nothing to see
From country to city
Somebody feed me?

Cornucopia spilling
Yet, somehow less filling
Cup runneth over
Yet, I’m left sober

Running Low.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Country Folk
Chords: F# C# / F# A / F# A B F#
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Written and recorded at Lake Wynonah, PA on the summer solstice. (2018)
Vocals, Guitar

From the album Overflow

bookmark_borderEast Earl Birthday Whirl

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East Earl Birthday Whirl.mp3

LYRICS
Gonna give it a whirl
In good ‘ole East Earl

[chorus]
What’s “birthday” mean to you
Going to Shady Maple, too
For an all you can eat
Birthday treat

My, oh, my
Pie in the sky
You can have your cake
And, eat it, too
Sampling apple dumpling
Can the belly take
More than two
Are you telling me
All you an eat for free?
[chorus]

Travelin’ miles
For service n’ smiles
Another run around the sun
When it’s all said and done
Can’t wait ’til next year
When my birthday draws near
Heading back to East Earl
For another whirl
[chorus]

Please come again!

East Earl Birthday Whirl Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
A song about getting a free Shady Maple Pennsylvania Dutch Smorgasbord meal on your birthday in East Earl, PA.
Style: Alternative Rock / Country Blues
Chords: E A B7 E / A E A E B7 A G E
Tomcat Bob: Banjo
Rick: Bass
Daniel: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

Recording: live / original take / digital 1-track stereo
East Earl Birthday Whirl.mp3

bookmark_borderGeneration Germination

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Generation Germination.mp3

LYRICS
Grab your hoe
Come on let’s go
What we reap is what we sow
Probably should water good
Adding to the neighborhood

[chorus]
Generation germination
Pant my seed
Grows like a weed

Hey, maybe our baby
Falls close to the tree..
Guess we’ll see
Probably
Sprout nine months out
Isn’t that what life’s about
[chorus]

Sometime soon… around noon
Shady Maple’s fork and spoon
Pops, son n’ me… family three
Generations dinning happily

Generation Germination Instrumental.mp3

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock / Country & Western
Chords: G D / C D C D G
Tomcat Bob: Banjo
Rick: Bass
Daniel: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

Recordings: live / original take / digital 1-track stereo