Something Like the Wind

He said, “You’re just a woman with a baby mind”

But I’ve got something on my heart tonight

And it’s wearing, tearing, pushing me around

Yeah it’s wearing, tearing, pushing me around

I’ve been standing by his side, slowly wearing down my pride

Oh how I wish I could be something like the wind

Oh I’d be blowing free and never coming back again

My mama she always knows when something’s wrong

The only one who knows my song

She says, “Oh now baby go be alone. Don’t be waiting by the phone.

Go out and be a woman. Show those men you are wholesome”

Oh how I wish I could be something like the wind

Oh I’d be blowing free and never coming back again

Oh how I wish I could be something like the wind

Oh I’d be blowing free and never coming back again

This Foxhound of Mine

This foxhound of mine

This foxhound of mine

He’s stubborn as a stone

Chewin’ up a chicken bone

This foxhound of mine

This foxhound of mine

This foxhound of mine

He’s diggin’ through the trash

And he eats it in a flash

This foxhound of mine

Now I’m chasing your tail

As you run down the road

Yellin, “You little shit get back here,

I love you so.”

This foxhound of mine

This foxhound of mine

Howlin’ at the moon

Diggin' holes all afternoon

This foxhound of mine

This foxhound of mine

This foxhound of mine

He’s trouble on four paws

Breaking every little law

This foxhound of mine

Now I’m chasing your tail

As you run down the road

Yellin, “You little shit get back here,

I love you so.”

And you run and you run and you run and you run

Oh you run and you run and you run

This foxhound of mine

This foxhound of mine

He’ll be giving me hell

Till his final farewell

This foxhound of mine

When I bury your tail

You won’t run down the road

And I’ll say, “you little shit get back here

I love you so”

Whooping Crane

Woke up to the sun

Beating through my window

It looks like a clementine

Reaching across the willow

Reaching across the meadow

I open up my window

Let the rays come in

I say, “hello mother nature

I’m going to let you in

I’m going to let you in

Mother nature calls to me

She says, “I’m feeling blue

All you people take from me

And there’s nothing I can do

No there’s nothing I can do”

See I know many mothers

Who don’t deserve that pain

See my mom’s happiness is gone

Like the whooping crane

Just like the whooping crane

Ooo

So I’ll go wanderin’

I’ll go to the river, lay my body down

I am decomposing

Like my mother’s frowns

Like my mother’s frowns

Mother nature embrace me

I can’t feel my head

I say, “hello” to the fishermen

I’m sorry that they take from you

I think so do I

I took all your nurturing

When Papa said, “Goodbye”

Take Your Time

You, you give it all for me

Your time and your body

So I can see

That I want you

I’ve got something on my mind for a minute

Time ain’t wasted when my days got you in it

Cause you take your time on me

So I take my time on you

Yeah you take your time on me

So I’ll give my time to you

Now, it’s getting late

And it’s just me

And my mistakes

I buried them deep

I wore my shame

I wore my shame

I’ve got something on my mind for a minute

Time ain’t wasted when my days got you in it

Cause you take your time on me

So I take my time on you

Yeah you take your time on me

So I’ll give my time to you

Cause I, I took a moment and I gave it all

And you, you took a moment and you gave it all

Autumn Wind

I felt the inner rhythm

Of this life I know

You’ll give your soul to the river

When it’s your time to go

Burning light of the water

Please do not leave me alone

I’ve seen a lot in this world

But grieving is nothing I know

I only know your body when it has a soul

I’ve never read the bible, but after this life I know

That you’ll come on over like the autumn wind

And I’ll see you again

If you leave your clothes in the closet

What will I do with them?

How will I take on the world

Of evil without your hand

God bless the grave yard digger

What will your tombstone say?

Bury you next to the river

Next to your mother’s grave

I only know your body when it has a soul

I’ve never read the bible, but after this life I know

That you’ll come on over like the autumn wind

And I’ll see you again

Raspberry Wine

He tasted like raspberry wine

I knew I’d be with him for some time

But that don’t mean no god damn thing

Don’t go out buying me a ring

And they say, “Hey, go for it! Tell him he’s worth it

Hey, go for it! Take him back home”

Home

He’s as full as the green mountain pine

But I’m as idol as a worm on a line

It wasn’t long before I started sneaking

Close your eyes love, there’s no peaking

And they say, “Hey, go for it! Tell him he’s worth it

Hey, go for it! Take him back home”

Oh what I’d do, oh what I’d do

For a place in the cold and a green mountain soul

What I’d do

He’s as full as the green mountain pine

But I’m as idol as a worm on a line

Hallelujah Without an Amen

Maybe this year we’ll cut our lawn

Maybe this year we’ll get all the neighbors to like us

Maybe this year, we’ll do something about that red door

We let the dog get to

He would scratch, he would scratch

And we wouldn’t let him in

Now he’s buried, buried, buried in the backyard

Poor soul, oh he’s just lying there

But he haunts us I swear

He’s howling at the moon

[Chorus]

Hallelujah without an “Amen”

And there’s nothing for us, nothing for us

Just whiskey rivers and red wine, Amen!

And they’re running through us

Running through us again

Soon the young one will head off to college

How I’ll miss her, how I’ll miss that soul

And the old one has moved out to Vegas

“How’s she doing?”

“Hell, I don’t know!?”

See my papa he, he’s a simple man

He just wants a woman to hold his hand

But he’s working, working, working so damn long

Always and Forever

I wake up each morning

Heartbeat like a drum

I want you, darling

I think you’re the one

You go downstairs

And start some coffee,

Let the dogs outside

I roll over and close my eyes

And dream of you for a little while

I finally wake up

You’re right out the door

We need more creamer,

We always need more

I weed the garden take a breath

And realize that it’s you

You’re the reason that I feel alive,

The reason that I do what I do

You come through the door now

You kiss my face

You always do that

You leave a trace

Of cigarettes and sweet regrets

That you are always doing

The foxhound finally takes a nap

The coffee is done brewing

The foxhound finally takes a nap now, baby

we can finally catch our breath now, can’t we?

Come this October I will be yours

Forever darling when you come through that door

Oh, close your eyes and picture us growing together

Tomorrow is like yesterday we are always and forever

Dirt

The tiller ruptures soil structure

Disrupt aggregate form

Agitate a natural infrastructure

Mincing all the worms

Breaking roots from mycorrhiza

Making pill bugs roll

Discompose the decomposers

Just to dig a hole

April

Cotyledons unfolding, as

The embryos of April form

Shedding winter coats and molting,

Sloughing sweaters and outer warms

Slipping from our socks and morphing

Hatching as our cells transform

Emerging as a little sapling

Unfurling like a pink newborn

April makes us feel like babies

In our new skin, feel the warmth

Exoskeleton starts forming

From callused heals and little thorns

Here comes winter with a vengeance

Crawl into my bed once more

Then the snow starts gently falling

button up my winter coat

Share a cigarette with silence

I’m freezing and I start to mourn

Shedding winter coats and molting

Spring is knocking at my door

Square Wheels

Sustain the story 

A repetitive view 

A constant sameness 

Similar 

The system works 

Why fix the wheel? 

"It's square", you say. 

But that's okay!

A work of art 

A bike that stays 

It does not roll 

Away 

Now there it sits 

Some say it quit 

Some say it put down

Roots 

One can assume 

Like me and you 

The bike would like 

to move 

"But what you don't see

That while I may not move, 

The world is moving 

around me"