Calamity Jane (1/11)

 

Punchin thru the fog, where the sea meets the sky

Tillered hand till now working sails on the rise

One more gulp of Kingston, for scenarios to change

One more push to Biscayne, on my Calamity Jane

 

Sometimes you’re dealt a diamond, when you needed a spade

Sometimes a hunter’s bend, when a reefer won’t stay

There’s never some deeper water, when you run her aground

The horror of empty pockets, when the cocaine boats in town

 

Chorus

 

The stars are glowing diamonds a sailor’s delight

A trace of island girls form their haloes at night

Well I left my Malindas down by Pelican Cay

One more push to Biscayne, on my Calamity Jane

 

There’s a certain will that chills your bones deep inside

Old venues were vast in virtues that you left behind

Mariner’s tales are woven through thick and through thin

Jamaca farewells still wailin in the water I’m in

 

 Chorus

 

Well, I’m passing Mathew town, down to Dead Man’s Cay

One more gulp of Kingston, send this bottle away

With this note of endless love across every wave

Posted Captain Ron to Annie, on my Calimity Jane

Posted Captain Ron to Annie, on my Calimity Jane

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Abigale Tempest (2/11)

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                          The Abigale Tempest, a commissioned whaler

                          With blood and scars from the sea

                          My mystical skipper, with scars of his own

                          Handed her over to me

 

                          He said there’s too much killin

                          Of men and our mammals

                          Never an end of our wars

                          Just take all the people

                          Who live for each other

                          With hopes of each other

                          With hopes you can even the score

 

                          Some peddle potions and liquors from islands

                          With jewelry from under the sea

                          Wide-eyed others bearing gifts from their homelands

                          Etched faces of you and of me

 

                          War ladened heroes lost medals of honor

                          With crutches and canes by their side

                          Wives and the widows step lightly and lonely

                          opes of happiness soon to arrive

 

                          New moon calling the wind is a whisper

                          A blanket of blue on the sea

                          The sound of the silence of wood on the water

                          Is making its own melody

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                          There’s a light up ahead pointing towards horizons

                          Of amber waves glistened in gold

                          The fair hair of a maiden from some other voyage

                          Bades sailors to stories untold

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                          There’s an unwritten rule, you get what you ask for

                          But always give back to the sea

                          There’s only a few who question that logic

                          You’ll never go sailing with me

 

                          The Abigal Tempest will always be sailing

                          With traces of you and of me

                          The Abigale Tempest will be leavin for the islands

                          To give peace an tranquility

Harley Dreams (3/11)

 

I heard the news this mornin, that I’m headin north again

The road a little lighter when you leave with a friend

I won’t be needing this and have no use for that

I left a tooth brush in the holder, cause I might be comin back

 

I’m no stranger to the highway, left some sand in Omaha

I’ve been replaced down in Dallas, disgraced by Johnny law

He left me torn and tattered, too tired to hoarse to scream

I’m just another hobo, hanging on to a Harley Dream

 

Jump a rollin railroad car, when the jingles kinda low

I said goodbye to sweet Lolita and Atlanta long ago

I’m just hanging on to a hurricane of nuts and bolts and gears

Consolidated sleepless nights, going, gone, I’m here

 

Chorus

This train knows where it’s going, it’ll take you for a ride

If you miss her conversation, jump on the other side

 

Sunrise in the rolling hills and sunset by the sea

The wanderlust of Jersey girls in the moonlight followed me

I have no use for roamin hands, my fingers play guitar

Emotion snappin silver strings, tell them who you are

 

Chorus/Break

 

I’ll head to Pennsylvania, where a family’s always there

I left a trail of broken hearts and bottles everywhere

You know your life’s a changing, when the world leaves you to choose

To pave your road to paradise, slave your road to use

 

1st Verse

 

I’m just another hobo hanging on to a Harley dream

Siren Song (4/11)

 

When the days were young

And the nights were long

I got a little taste, called the siren song

So ship ahoy maties

There’s stew in the pot

Girls on the brain

And the rum hits the spot

 

Hatchet Jak was a roofer by trade

Jack in the sack tendered the maids

And Jack in the back, lived in the stern

And Captain Jack was sailing to learn

 

Chorus

And it’s that she blows

And twiddle dee dee

She’s the only crew I’d take to the sea

Well it’s shiver my timbers and twiddle dee dum

I’m sure you can come
If we have enough rum

 

There’s John at the bar

Who places the bets

And Jeff at the helm

Who owns this old wreck

And Joanne at the bar

Whose heart I betroathed

And Jerry and Bobbie

Who take off their clothes

 

Chorus

 

If we run out of rum

We’ll go sailing for more

Jimmy Hardees our skipper when we come ashore

Nothing is sacred when something is said

We’ll put on our haloes and craw into bed

 

Chorus

 

This tune started out called the Siren Song

We’d catchem and kissin if the just tag along

We’re sailors for hire and drunkards at best

We’re drunkards for hire

And sailors at rest

 

Chorus

Steel Dealer (5/11)

 

Lay down the track, don’t ever look back

That’s the kind of life on the railroad

Lay down your blues, and lace up your shoes

Your time’s not being used for the makin

 

Ten miles a day of steel to lay

You gotta hope and pray to your healer

29 years, of countless tears

In the eyes of your peers you’re the dealer

 

Break

 

Men lost their lives, just laying those ties

For a dollar’s worth of rye on the railroad

There’s not time for slack, don’t you ever look back

Your life’s a single track on the railroad

 

1st Verse

Dusty Walker (6/11)

 

He’ll see no happy sunrise

He’ll see no shining day

Or lovely ladies dancing by his window

Dusty Walker is my name

Hustlin gamblers is my game

And you’ll see me on the train goin back to Frisco

 

Newborn babies to their bottle

Like old sailors to the sea

Jokers in my blood are the finest melody

So let your devil’s answer

With their hands upon the wheel

I let my feeling echo

With the sound of cold grey steel

 

Chorus

I let my jokers slide

But his queens they came on heavy

And I left his kings lyin

With their faces towards the ground

 

1st Verse

Why We Shine (7/11)

 

Let’s celebrate my Christmas

With another killing spree

Let’s leave it up to humans

To screw up sanctity

I feel  your hearts are leavin me

When we/ve only just begun

Shove your lonesome politics

And shove your holy guns

 

I used to be a Pharaoh

A patriot, a thief

I tried to get to know you

Before you even breathed

I’ve taken on a hundred names

But they all remain the same

Jahova, Mohamed and damit

Are all relavent you say

I do as I pleases

 I’m on my 56 Jesus

I’ll spread him around

I’ll spread him around

 

I give you hope and promises

With love and peace and health

Why do we shine a Christmas

When we’re wishing for ourselves

Some men are too tall

Some men are built too fast

Some men never will

And some men never last

 

How can you trust humanity

When you cannot trust yourself

A little here and a little there

You’d sell your guns to hell

Your souls are problematic

Just waitin for the when

It’s only the beginning

One hour my world will end

 

I do as I pleases

I’m on my 56 Jesus

I’ll spread him around

I’ll spread him around

Comin Home Tonight (8/11)

 

Where the gulf waters flow and gulls dance on the sea

Were the clouds get their change, acting out their mysteries

And the wise men all know,  if their season is ripe

With the hail of the water, and the whale of the wind

He’ll be comin home tonight

He’ll be comin home tonight

 

And the sailor’s woman waits, with her shades slightly drawn

While her sea-legged stance tends to sway

With his song about her lover so true, and her seasons lookin bright

With the hail of the water and the whale of the wind

He’ll be comin home tonight

He’ll be comin home tonight

 

Chorus

Four days out and six days in, only his sails being chased by the wind

Blue skies ahead, while his labor of love keeps an eye out from above

And the sea begins to shout from the bold Northwest

Storms can’t be takin lightly when their souls being to crest

It’s the trust of the sea, like the trust in the Lord

Right All Along (9/11)

 

Lay down beside me

Take a good look and fall asleep

You’re my lady in waiting

My lady in waking, my lover

So I warm and unique

 

Chorus

So let’s all of our feelings so strong

And we’ll build us a mountain so high and so long

So no one will find us

With love here to bind us

It makes all the wrong things seem right all along

 

I’ll be more beholden

And a little more open somehow

I’ve seen my reflection on a lake of intentions

Which seemed pretty clear up to now

 

Chorus

I let my feelings so strong

And I built me a mountain so high and so long

So no one could find me with a bottle to guide me

It makes all of the wrong things seem right all along

 

Break/Chorus

Simple Days (10/11)

 

When the sunlight streaks across the water

And catches golden leaves of fall

When the only thing that matters

The emotions of it all

And you touch the one who loves you

To hold back old winters wall

As if trust and passion can survive cold stays

To simple days

 

When the forest holds its chill

And makes its waked presence known

When the only thing that matters

Is how you’re feeling so alone

When your lover turns her back

And puts her pillow cold as stone

As a reminder that she yerns her life

Away to simple days

 

Chorus

If ever was a time

When lovers felt so insecure

And the thought of runnin loose

Or running bout

Keep our eyes on the horizon

And your future on your dreams

Love and warmer weather

Tend to search each other out

Simple days

 

Break/Chorus

 

If ever was a safer place

Right here in this canoe

With its silent water gilded

With the hopes of someone new

Just keep this short reminder

When your searching for this clue

Of the only one who will love your life away

To simple days

Of the only one who will love your life away

To simple days

Don’t Wait Too Long (11/11)

 

Don’t wait too long, to tell me that you love me

Don’t wait too long, my life is all I have

Don’t wait too long fore this goose begins to gander

My time is in your hands and my race is almost run

 

Actors set the stage, while the scripts still being written

Time is never lost, when it’s someone else’s gain

I must be born a reader, cause my writtings getting rusty

The curtain always closes when you play your last refrain

 

Don’t wait too long, to tell me that you love me

Don’t wait too long, my life is all I have

Don’t wait too long fore this goose begins to gander

The curtain always closes when you play your last refrain

Well, the curtain always closes when you play your last refrain

Well, the curtain always closes when you play your last refrain