Lyrics
The Devil Just Laughs
Look down, east to west
These human beings have made such a mess
Ever since Adam met Eve
I’ve endured hypocrisy
‘Cause all they ever do
Is bicker, fight, blame and screw
A good flood is overdue
And that is why the Devil just laughs
You know ol’ Lucifer
We cast him out and he fell down to Earth
And ever since he’s been raising hell
It’s plain to see he’s doing well
‘Cause we got books and rules
But he’s got gold and precious jewels
Remember that golden calf?
And that is why the Devil just laughs
Sometimes it’s hard to be
Good angels like you and me
I know that He’s the man
But tell me, tell me……explain His plan
Tell me Gabriel
Are we not better than those demons in hell
We got armor, sword and sling
Unfurl those righteous wings
‘Cause Revelations say
There’s going to be a judgment day
But we just sit and wait
Forgive sin, clean the slate
Open those Pearly Gates
And that is why the Devil just laughs
Born To Blog
I once was so shy
I avoided people’s eyes
My tongue got twisted
The words I could not find
But then I discovered
A place called cyberspace
Say what you want
They’ll never see your face
Life is grand
Behind my fire wall
Incognito, unmitigated gall
‘Cause I will trash you
If you dispute my views
I’m like a boxer
I leave ’em black and blue
We can say what is on our mind
We just type the words
We’re always online
‘Cause it’s so easy
We’re all intertwined
Born to blog
Every day and night
Born to blog
It’s a God given right
I’m so clever
When I get into my zone
My specialty
A sharp sarcastic tone
The words flow free
When I put down these clowns
I feel majestic
Like I’m wearing a crown
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We like to squabble
We like to make a scene
About what was said
About what we mean
With strong opinions
We righteously take aim
Even when facts dispute
Our exaggerated claims
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If I Could Be With You
There’s a fire light in a distant home
Burning bright but you’re all alone
‘Cause I’m so far away
Outside of Santa Fe
At night I sing my songs in another town
I love the road but it wears you down
And I would be alright
If you were here tonight
I want to hold you once again
And feel the love that’s deep within
Like a sail that yearns for wind
If I could be with you
And I think of you in your cotton dress
Your shoulders bare where my hands caress
I miss your tender kiss
I hunger for your lips
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And the bus keeps rolling
Past factories and farms
And I count the days
‘Till I’m back in your sweet arms
Back in your sweet arms
You’re the moon and stars on a summer’s night
The golden sky of dawn’s first light
You are the song inside
You are the reason why
Sarah Jane
She was seventeen and some said half wild
Lived up Wilson Creek ’bout half a mile
Her momma raised her up the best she could
Taught her to survive in those deep Pisgah woods
Worked together turning corn into shine
Sold white lightning out beyond the county line
Sarah Jane
Eyes of green and hair of auburn red
Sarah Jane
The boy you love is gone
Now who will you wed?
She met him up the river past Swinging Bridge
Fishing his favorite spot below the ridge
She liked him better than those boys from school
He was kinder towards her and nobody’s fool
Swimming naked under poplar and pine
Learned to make love, how to take her time
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It was late November with a cold grey sky
The road was dangerous, patches of ice
He was heading home from working late
His tires hit the ice, he could not break
As his car crashed the rusty railing gave
The river below became his watery grave
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Her momma said her grief was her cross to bear
Momma said that this world was anything but fair
That boy died too young but you have his seed
And that boy will surely live on, in your baby
And when her time came, she bore a healthy girl
Had the boy’s eyes and little auburn curls
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Max Patch Round
Instrumental by Russ Wheelock & Laura Smith
Kiki Wanka
My name is Kiki Wonka
I’m the biggest of us all
My sisters stack inside me
From the tall down to the small
Our father is from Russia
He carved us with his hands
So carefully he painted
We’re the finest in the land
When someone looks inside of me
They always are amazed by what they see
They look again and down again
They find a dozen miniature Kiki’s
My name is Kiki Wonka
My eyes are aqua blue
I’m known as a Matryoshka
I’m Russian through and through
We really are enchanting
A shining indigo
With flowers that adorn us
Red and green and gold
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My name is Kiki Wonka
I’d love to be your stacking doll
Please come free my sisters
From the tall down to the small
Leap Of Faith
Don’t jump into that river
Don’t jump into that river
Don’t jump into that river for heaven’s sake
There’s rocks that you can’t see
Submerged beneath old trees
And that current will carry you away
Away, away, that current will carry you away
Open up your eyes
Don’t be hypnotized
If you make that jump
It’s just a leap of faith
River’s wide, river’s deep
Current’s fast, canyon steep
And how do you know what lies downstream
Things are seldom what they seem
So don’t you jump into that river
Jump into that river
Don’t jump into that river for heaven’s sake
There’s rocks that you can’t see
Submerged beneath old trees
And that current will carry you away
Away, away, that current will carry you away
Don’t listen to the lies
They’ll only cloud your mind
If you make that jump
It’s just a leap of faith
Better stop, use your head
Make some sense out of what is said
Don’t you follow these fools off the cliff
And all their fine rhetoric
So don’t you jump into that river
Jump into that river
Don’t jump into that river for heaven’s sake
There’s rocks that you can’t see
Submerged beneath old trees
And that current will carry you away
Away, away, that current will carry you away
You got to make up your mind
You’re going to have to decide
If you make that jump
It’s just a leap of faith
Don’t you jump into that river
Jump into that river
Don’t jump into that river for heaven’s sake
There’s rocks that you can’t see
Submerged beneath old trees
And that current will carry you away
Away, away, that current will carry you away
Open up your eyes
Don’t be hypnotized
If you make that jump
It’s just a leap of faith
Don’t listen to the lies
They’ll only cloud your mind
You make that jump
It’s just a leap of faith
You got to make up your mind
You’re going to have to decide
If you make that jump
It’s just a leap of faith
My Lover’s Eyes
Love is like a summer’s night
That wraps you in its arms and holds you tight
Its splendor so tender in my lover’s eyes
Stars will fall and stars will rise
We watch them dance across the night time sky
As I gaze amazed in my lover’s eyes
No one knows where life will lead
You take it one day at a time
But if you’re lucky someday you’ll find
The joy within a lover’s eyes
Your sweet love is a pure delight
It cuddles close to me with all its might
Completely, so deeply in my lover’s eyes
I was searching far and wide
For someone special to be by my side
And I’ll forever, I’ll treasure my lover’s eyes
The Kid And The Dragon
I was just a boy
Walking in the woods
I couldn’t have been more than 8 or 9
When I spied a sight I could not believe
A big ‘ol green dragon
Leaning on a tree
Smoke from his nostrils
Meandering in the leaves
He said please don’t run
Don’t be afraid
I assure you I just want to play
Do you want to fly together you and I
And sail across the heavens
And we can touch the sky
You can ride up here on my back
We’ll soar and glide so high
He’s the best friend a kid ever had
Nobody gives you no trouble
But don’t get in front of him should he sneeze
‘Cause that fire’s a thousand degrees
He showed me his house
He lived down in a cave
We liked to eat popcorn
He made in his Microwave
Had a hammock for a bed that he made from a tent
And he liked to hear stories
From books that I read
When you read to a dragon
You sit on top his head
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I remember the day
My dragon flew away
He said he had to go
The queen must be saved
She was locked inside a castle in the sky
By a mean ‘ol wizard
Who only had one eye
And the king commanded
Spread your wings and fly
He circled high above me
With smoke he wrote good bye
Delta Girl
Born in the Delta
Along the Missisip
With music playing in her ears
A blues and country mix
Her uncle played the fiddle well
Her mama mandolin
They taught her how to play them both
Before she could even swim
Now the fiddle was her favorite
She practiced all day long
And if she heard a tune just once
She could play the whole song
Her reputation traveled far
And with it came some fame
They billed her as “The Delta Girl”
And that soon became her name
And like the sound of heavenly wings
They love to hear that Delta girl
Make her fiddle sing
They love to hear that Delta girl
Make her fiddle sing
From Vicksburg to Memphis
She played all kinds of shows
Dance halls and revivals
And on the radio
Everybody shook their head
And stared in disbelief
How a girl so young could play so well
How such a thing could be
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The Delta girl is all grown up
Her traveling days long gone
Married with a family now
A house and a lawn
But In her chest are memories
Posters and playbills
Of when she brought the house down
And they’d throw her daffodils
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Highlands Of Roan
When I was a young boy in east Tennessee
My father and brothers, the sheep dogs and me
We’d climb up the high road to the top of Roan Bald
Through the long verdant summers and the glorious fall
To the highlands, to the highlands of Roan
To the highlands, to the highlands of Roan
My brothers enlisted and sailed off to France
They fought in the trenches but they never came back
My mother would weep, my father withdrew
And I’d walk for days on the ridge tops I knew
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I left the mountains when I was fourteen
Riding in box cars to New Orleans
I worked on a shrimper, I worked on a farm
I made me a living with my back and my arms
But all roads lead home
To the Highlands of Roan
When cold strangers’ eyes
leave you weary and wanting
For old familiar skies
What is a lifetime, but so many days
Of laughter and heartache and making your way
I still walk the ridge tops, me and my dogs
We amble through memories like ghosts in the fog
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