by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Hip-pocket flask at the ready Step-light downed by the glass, yeah Honey, what's that nail doing in my head? Just a minute ago I was shooting from a saddle Yeah, I got a spur and a horse high shooting

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Taylor had a wife, she was married to the mirror Make her glass-eyed lover buy a drink and then another round 'Round the kitchen table lined with cigarettes from years ago Last night one fell onto the

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

The sidewalk coughed up weeds and cracks A book, a magazine and a penny and a dime Oh, and Carl looked behind him making sure the scene was empty Breathed a sigh of bewilderment noting that it was No

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Make a dent in the shovel, run the mud through a sieve Paste your hopes on a windmill blade, plant it up on the hill Pencil sharpened with a putty knife, pretty girl as a pretty nun Maybe you wake and

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Bouncin' across the lake of ten years Like a stone tossed from the burglar's hand Holdin' my breath, then I'm sinkin' Waves in circle like a memory slowly fade away, slowly fade Remember me, when you

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Ginger had dyed her hair red to fit her name Burny pocked his arms with a pack of Camel Lights Long sleeves outdoors to keep the kids from crying And Ginger climbed the high wire just to make them che

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Brother Sinner & The Whale

Cold, long and weary; the winter's gone dead. Busted up ol' overcoat, coverin' my head. One more season of tryin' to lay it down. "Damn ol' life," I mumble, to no one around. Through a million m

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Wonder flood the valley, tunnel feed the soil Free advice with constant wit, never to recoil Bums rush o'er the high grass field with shoes of plastic lace That untie at the first step, not the last t

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Drive down baby like showers of rain Can't you hear my fair girl call my name? Can't you hear my fair girl call my name? She calls so loud, it's so plain I walked on down to the station Tears falling

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Tried my hand at company, wine poured out for two Blue charade that I have made while lying next to you Take the next thing home, my dear, leave me to my ways The only clothes that seem to fit are the

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

It was not two days, night and a day And I look back at the man I was before A sorry stranger banged up on a shore Your warm arms tore the walls down Your warm arms tore the walls down A devil with t

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Watch it bounce like water, meat under the stone Throw up a leg and try to beg your way back home Smell the coffee boil in the corner pot Everything's in it but I can't make it stop "I ain't been drin

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Bourbon soda over ice in the basement shade Got it made, no one here, just the beer man's dog Howlin' at the moon heat, gnawin' on a bone Waiting for Marty to get home, home, home Waiting for Marty to

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

This makes as much sense as a frog on a chain A leper knocking trees down with his fist Twisting my ear like I'm a school yard churl You know I wanna sit beside that long legged girl Wearing overalls

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Miscellaneous

Jenny keep the closet warm I'll need somewhere to hide Bees are swarming around my head Digging in my side They laugh and taunt and prod me Tear at the walls around me Here in my eternal shell I laug

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album 15 From Rykodisc - 1998

When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder (traditional) When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more And the morning breaks eternal, bright and fair The chosen ones will gather over on

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Roll Away the Stone

When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder (traditional) When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more And the morning breaks eternal, bright and fair The chosen ones will gather over on

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Brother Sinner and The Whale

You and I've got trouble, oh, there's trouble everywhere I'm calling on the Lord, c'mon may a brighter day fall across your way, and soon I don't know your trouble and you surely don't know mine I'm

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Brother Sinner & the Whale

You and I've got trouble, oh, there's trouble everywhere I'm calling on the Lord, c'mon may a brighter day fall across your way, and soon I don't know your trouble and you surely don't know mine I'm

by Kelly Joe Phelps on album Roll Away the Blues-Very Best Of

well met, well met said an old true love well met, well met said he I've just returned from the salt salt sea and it's all for the love of thee come in, come in my old true love and have a seat with