There are a lot of songs that didn't make it on the first one. and pieces of songs I am still working on. The really early songs really sucked and I have lost a lot of the papers they were writen on. But I guess there are more to be written.

Here are clips in Real Audio format:

The Songs:

• small file  -  Big File When I was Young
  when i was young i used to believe
  love was as strong as cherry tree
  but washington came sneaking
  and he set me free

  you can talk about this you can talk about that
  but the pot's boiled dry and the bottom's getting black
  ain't no need to wonder
  if i will be back

  cause down at the leve the river is rising
  and you ain't doing nothing but criticizing
  you better watch that river
  before it flows a new way

  'cause it's been raining for so many days
  but now the sun is shining and i'm on my way
  you've got to be nice
  if you want me to stay

  there's sugar and salt seems mighty nice
  you'll get both now that's my advice
  you'd better think about it
  cause i'll only try twice

  one'll get you two two'll get you four
  watch me baby walk out your front door
  i'll see you pretty mama
  on the other shore

  one'll get you two three'll get you five
  i'll be walkin' right down the line
  see you pretty baby
  on the other side
  
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• small file  -  Big File Tasajara

  you know i dream of grandeur
  sometimes almost every day
  but i can't let those dreams
  get to much in my way

  'cause the road is mighty twisted
  right where i sit
  and it's such a joyful time
  to see where i fit

  heading into high ground
  with a chain tied to my back
  but if i don't think about it
  there ain't to much i do lack

  two days from tassahara
  not such a mighty long way
  i won't be here tomorrow
  but it's nice along the way

  people say "hey look boy
  "you better do things our way
  "you ain't gonna get nowhere
  "you could be a big boy some day"

  but if i just sit here strumming
  and thinking of a tune
  i ain't got time for nothing else
  on this sunny afternoon

  so i just sit here and watch that river flow
  where it's deep it's mighty clear
  but this time of year
  it's moving kind of slow

  chr.
  
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• small file  -  Big File Stonehenge

  i found a map on some paper
  to a place in my mind
  left on my notes
  by some friends who were very kind

  there´s no one left to visit
  they´ve all gone away
  but when I was in trouble
  they were all there to say

  come over to out house and stay
  from out porch watch the sun set away
  there will soon be a very brand new day
  and we´re sure you wonÕt feel this way

  on a hill by the golf course
  by the field and the magic forest
  with the black berries on the back porch
  turn at the rainbow in the driveway

  sit and wait for the visits
  from the people that no one knew
  who just stopped by to say thanks
  to someone whoÕd lead them up that way

  chr.

  i stopped by for a visit
  and amy was just moving out
  the phone bill wasn´t paid
  and no one else was left about

  except the dragon in the corner
  my tears up on the shelf
  the black berries for breakfast
  the mirror and myself

  chr
  
  
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• small file  -  Big File One Love

  so many women pass this doorway
  they keep walking through
  how can i tell if you will love me
  how can i tell you will be true

  how can i tell if you will love me
  how can i be sure
  will you be the one and only
  to make me so secure

  one love
  one love
  o---o
  one love
  one love
  cause i´m walking through a lonely lonely world

  i don´t want no fancy woman
  caught in a spell of her own way
  all i want is someone to talk to
  for many, many, many, many days

  in your eyes i see a fire
  but burning what to fuel
  you won´t find this man still pleading
  i wait until you say you will

  chr.

  i´ve seen so many bridges burning
  with line and ties only I have built
  cause if my mooring is to be the founding
  you must help weave the magic quilt.
  
  
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• small file  -  Big File Simple Song

  this is just a simple song
  i´d like to sing for you
  but if you´d like to sing along
  i hope you sing it too

  cause there is something very special
  and I hope you feel its true
  about singing all together
  its time for singing something new

  cause its time to see the difference
  between the laughter and the rain
  its time to hold someone´s hand right through
  the sunshine and the pain

  and if you aren´t strong enough
  to hold on for the refrain
  just remember that there´s someone else
  who´ll need your help again

  so sing a song for the world as one
  and a song for all the wrongs to be undone
  cause if you think it´s silly to be singing on a song
  wait until you lift your voice and you start to sing along

  ror there are might armies
  who wander through our land
  but there´s a stronger army
  in the heart of everyman

  and there´s nowhere you can hide
  so you´d better join the band
  cause if we´re singing all together
  maybe they won´t come again

  cause well be singing on the songs of our live
  weÕll be singing all the songs of our lives
  and our hearts will be so filled
  there won´t be time to hurt or kill
  we´ll be just working on our
  harmonies together

  
  
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• small file  -  Big File Stagger Lee

  could be on a rainy morning
  could be on a rainy night
  stagger lee and billy d. lyon
  had a great big fight
  he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  stagger lee said billy
  please don´t take my life
  i´ve got two lovely children
  and a very lovely wife
  but he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  stagger lee said billy
  i can´t go for that
  you won all my money
  and my brand new stetson hat
  he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  stagger lee shot billy
  he shot the boy so bad
  that the bullet went through billy d. lyon
  and broke the bar tender's looking glass
  he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  call down your undertaker
  call down your rubber tired hearse
  lay him down beneath the ground
  that will be his curse
  he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  say mister policeman
  how can it be
  that you arrest everybody
  but that cruel stagger lee
  he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  if your ever down in louisiana
  stop down by the lions club
  and ever step you'll be walking in
  billy d. lyon´s blood
  he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  could be on a rainy morning
  could be on a rainy night
  stagger lee and billy d. lyon
  had a great big fight
  he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  
  
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• small file  -  Big File Ain´t Got No Bones

  i´ve got a woman ain´t got no bones
  i stand her on her feet, but she falls down on the floor
  i give her everything i got, she only asks for more

  when its gone its gone its gone for good

  she talks all day she talks all night
  she says she fights for them women's rights
  but she plays the game with all of her might

  when its gone its gone its gone for good

  i got a dog he ain´t got no sense
  goes running through the forest
  right into the fence
  i sit to think about it
  but i must be pretty dense

  cause when its gone its gone its gone for good

  
  i got to hurry i got there too late
  all she wants me to do is to hesitate
  but now i´m driving she´ll have to wait

  when its gone its gone its gone for good

  i got an office eight miles high
  i sit there thinking but i don´t know why
  you may see me in the window

  just trying to fly

  cause when its gone its gone its gone for good
  
  
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• small file  -  Big File Children of Malcontent

  i´ve got a penny in my pocket
  a gun in my hand
  you´ve got a ring on your finger
  i´ll get it if I can
  i´ll sell it for a dollar
  sell it for a dime
  i´m never gonna worry
  cause i´ll never do the time
  I´m bigger than jessie james
  or al capone
  get out of my face
  leave me alone

  me an my brother
  walked into the store
  we took all of the money
  then we walked right out the door
  i was screaming at those bastards
  made ´em squirm just right
  i got so excited shooting everything
  i shot my brother's head that night
  i never talk about it
  i only run from the law
  i know i got it coming
  how could i tell my ma

  what i´ll do tomorrow
  what i did today
  what I did before this
  i really cannot say
  i´m gonna live forever
  everybody´s gonna pay
  things are gonna change soon
  they say the sun will shine someday
  but I´ve got my music and my best friend
  just tucked inside my belt
  when he hit the floor and looked at me
  i wonder how he felt

  
  
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• small file  -  Big File Patriotic Son

  so you want to be a soldier
  cause you like to shoot the gun
  and you saw the man on tv
  with the patriotic son

  you like to play with pistols
  and you want to be the one
  to protect this nations honor
  and you want to shoot someone

  i went to the movies
  and the audience did roar
  he shoot him with a smile
  and the blood dripped to the floor

  what is with this world on men
  with head stuck in the sand
  who are so fond of killing
  could just a easily lend a hand

  but we don´t live in lebanon
  or in san salvador
  we just like to go out shopping
  and rave about the stores

  won´t feel the fear at night
  from the knocking at the door
  you won´t lose that last lust of heat
  with the missile through the floor

  if you wake up on some dusty road
  such a long, long, long way from home
  and look out on the bodies
  and the blood and broken bones
  will you think you had some reason
  why you took the time to come
  or will it just come down to the fact
  you like to shoot the gun
  
  
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• small file  -  Big File Faces and the Names

  who frees their mind to under stand
  who drops their load to lend a hand
  who finds their life will be a stand
  who takes the time to mend the man

  who builds a fire inside their heart
  who sees a way and makes a start
  who lifts their eyes and takes a part
  who sings the songs and find the art

  ohh..ohh.. the faces and the names
  ohh..ohh.. the faces and the names
  ohh..ohh.. the faces and the names
  and who will remember

  who feeds the lips of hungry years
  who pulls their currage right from their tears
  who pits their patience against their fears
  who breaks their way through all these mirrors

  who tells the boy that he is a man
  who fills their heart and thinks that they can
  who builds the way and makes a plan
  who loses all and gets up again

  chr.

  and when so many people have died
  will you be here to say that you´ve tried

  ohh..ohh.. the faces and the names
  ohh..ohh.. our faces and our names
  ohh..ohh.. your faces and your names
  and who will remember

  
  
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