F Songs

Run wild,Run wild over me,In this dreamscape savannaOn a green and waving sea.Run wild, run forever,Run forever over meOn this steaming sweet savanna,In a green theology. So my mind blowsOut the windowsAnd the moon glowsOn my stream. Faces,There are faces that I know.In this room I’ll face the musicWhere my loved ones ebb and flow.Face […]

When I was just a childMy daddy’d go out and get the old cane poleAnd we’d go fishin’.Fishin’.Sit all day in the sun,Gonna have us some fun.We’re gone fishin’. You take them fishes homeAnd you eat ’em all upAnd you take what’s leftAnd you bury it out in the garden.The fish heads you’re discardin’.Helps the […]

“This is a little kind of a love song for anybody who ever had a relationship end with the phrase, ‘Let’s just be friends.’” -Typical introduction at live gigs Well I promised myself I would never believeWhat I heard, that I wanted to hear.Yes, I vowed I would never again,Fall where I had fallen.But then […]

She lived on relief,On the outside of town,Where the cops never tread,And the bullshit went down.Where the natives danced naked,In a gritty ballet.And they did all the things,That good people can’t say. Her name was Lorretta,Tho’ she’s been called much worse.Her ma took in laundry,And her dad drove a hearse.Her wit cut you sideways,But you […]

“I guess Jerry Garcia died last year. So I wrote this little song about him called ‘Feelin’ Dead.’” -Introduction from a live performance on 10 Aug 1996 “I was thinking to myself, at that point when I heard that Jerry had died, I wonder if anybody told him? Does he know? And so I took […]

“Prevailing wisdom says you must go to a coast to hit the bigs. Perhaps we are fools to think otherwise. This song is a good place to vent our spleens when we are overcome by the facts of life.” -From the liner notes of Flyover Land When I grew up there, it was called Midwest […]