Author: TK Major

Rambler

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Left my home and my woman
about forty years ago
mostly don’t know when to quit
but then I packed up my losses
and stumbled out on the road

[ch]
Well I’m a rambler, I’m a gambler
I’m just a shambles of a man
I’m stumbling; my lifes crumblin
I’m just another loser on the lam

If the stakes are low then the time is right
I’m a fool for a penny-ante game
May be gambling with my life
but it’s all small change just the same

I’ve been beaten, I’ve been cheated
I’ve been shot at from Arkansas to Vietnam
I been shafted, I been laughed at
I been out-casted but I still don give a damn

(c) 1975 Thomas K. Major
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Notes/Memo

[C] Left my home and my [G] woman
[F] about forty years a-[G]-go
[C] mostly don’t know when to [G] quit
but then I [F] packed up my losses
and [G] stumbled out on the [Am] road

[ch]
Well I’m a [F] rambler, I’m a [G] gambler
[F] I’m just a [G] shambles of a [Am] man
I’m [F] stumbling; my life’s [G] crumblin
[F] I’m just another [G] loser on the [Am]  lam

If the stakes are low then the time is right
I’m a fool for a penny-ante game
May be gambling with my life
but it’s all small change just the same

I’ve been [C]  beaten, I’ve been [G] cheated
I’ve been [F]  shot at from Arkan-[G]-sas to [Am] Vietnam
I been shafted, I been laughed at
I been out-casted but I still don give a damn

(c) 1975 Thomas K. Major

 

Spit in the Ocean – ’25

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Spit in the Ocean

You must think you’re oh so very
terribly important
with your car, your house, your maid,
your butler and your porters.

But seen from the stars
you’re the same as all of us are.
And it might seem a queer notion
but we’re all just spit
in the ocean.

Hop upon a plane
run around the world
Tokyo, Paris, Rome, Berlin
and they’re all full of your kind of girl.

You can have all the ones you want
you can play with people’s lives.
You can have all the rope you want
but soon enough they expect that noose
to be tied.

Seen from above
just another slightly balding head
a little bit of dandruff on the shoulders
but you’ll be dead
soon enough, anyway.

Hiding in your villa
on the Dalmatian Coast.
Your blue ribbon Afghan hound at your feet
the one that you prize the most.

But your baby’s got the rabies
and he’s gonna bite your foot.
Is there there no end to the indignities
through which a human being
must be put.

You must think you’re oh so very
terribly important
with your car, your house, your maid,
your butler and your porters.

But seen from the stars
you’re the same as all of us are.
And it must seem a queer notion
but we’re all just spit
in the ocean.

Seen from the stars
Just another chunk of rock in space.
little ones crawling about on it
but they’ll be gone
soon enough, anyway.

(C) 1975, T.K. Major
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Notes/Memo

 

What Promises Mean Today

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I Know What Promises Mean Today

I know what promises mean today
I don’t care I believe in you anyway
Don’t care what anyone says
I’ll believe in you unitil I’m dead
At the rate things are going
That cuold be any day
I don’t care I believe in you anyway

You say your my love
my sister my brother my friend
I’m surprised you don’t claim be
my mother my father and the priest at the end

And I still don’t care what all that people say
I’ll be loveing you till Im put in my grave
but at the rate things are going
that could be any day
I don’t care I believe in you anyway

I know what promises mean today
I don’t care I believe in you anyway
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Notes/Memo

I Know What Promises Mean Today
G D C ~
I know what promises mean today
G F C ~
I don’t care I believe in you anyway
D F
Don’t care what anyone says
C G
I’ll believe in you unitil I’m dead
F
At the rate things are going
F G
That cuold be any day
F F C
I don’t care I believe in you anyway

You say your my love
my sister my brother my friend
I’m surprised you don’t claim be
my mother my father
and the priest that they send at the end

Am Em
And I still don’t care waht anyone says
Am Em
I’ll be loveing you till Im put in my grave
G F
but at the rate things are going
em
that could be any day
G F C
I don’t care I believe in you anyway

 

A Bird Hung in the Sky

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I STOOD UPON A HILL

A bird hung in the sky
dipped and whirled and then it spun
A bird hung in the sky
dipped and whirled and then it spun
It flew between the clouds
and dove right into the sun

I stood upon a hill
looked up into the sky
I stood upon a hill
looked up into the sky
The sky turned black
as the sun burnt into my eyes

Don’t the city sure look strange
cars scattered all around
The city sure looks strange
cars scattered all around
Don’t the people look funny
lying there dead on the ground

 

[gallows humor joke verse below, Halloween 1986]

Six years underground
Six years of living hell
Six years underground
ever since the ionosphere dispelled
Our old friend Mr. Sun
turned out to be the Fiery King of Hell

©1973,1986, TK Major

[first three verses written circa 1973, last verse Halloween
1986]
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Bold and Rational Men

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Bold and Rational Men
(1973-5?)
[as sung]

[So,] come now y’ bold and rational men
and march y’ straight ahead
y’ fear not the fire of the dragon
nor the carrious teeth of death

And come now, lad
fear not the gods
you’ve often said we’re all alone
d’n’cha see your where your path must lie
straight into the unknowable
good speed now
you’re on your own

But wait now put your hand on the earth
and see where your life flows from
this good dark earth
is the mother of us all
y’know you are her son

and come and gaze into the sky
see how dark and deep
you are the prodigal lost in time
lost in a dream kept sleep

(C)1973, TK Major
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Notes/Memo

V
Dm C C Dm
x2

Ch
G Dm G Dm
G Dm F C Dm
F eC Dm Dm

Bold and Rational Men

Come now y’ bold and rational men
and march y’ straight ahead
y’ fear not the fire of the dragon
nor the carrious teeth of death

And come now, lad
fear not the gods
you’ve often said we’re all alone
d’n’cha see your where your path must lie
straight into the unknowable
good speed now
you’re on your own

But wait now put your hand on the earth
and see where your life flows from
this good dark earth
is the mother of us all
y’know you are her son

and come and gaze into the sky
see how dark and deep
you are the prodigal lost in time
lost in a dream kept sleep

(C)1973, TK Major

V
Dm C C Dm
x2

Ch
G Dm G Dm
G Dm F C Dm
F eC Dm Dm

 

Burning and Bitter

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Burning and Bitter

Burning and bitter
are my thoughts tonight.
I can taste the poison
of the lies I heard tonight.
I have seen my soul
like the falcon you gunned down in flight.
— You’re a sorceress,
you’re a whore,
but you’re oh so sweet in the night

Thirty pieces of silver,
(it’s) not an awful lot.
Thirty pieces of silver,
it’s all the hanged man got.
— He just served his mistress,
you know, Kali, that other god.
Life, death and change:
he was human; it was his lot.
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The Day My Cigar Went Out in the Rain

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You were wrapped up that day
in an old fur coat
we were splashing in puddles
in the lane

that was one day
I won’t never forget
the day my
cigar went out
in the rain

I was going to send
for the letters I wrote
to see what life
was like in the past

The times that we laughed
and the times that we cried
fall away from the light
so fast

Where are the puddles
that we splashed in that day
I went back
but I couldn’t find one
where is the love
we thought we were making
now that our time is gone

Old:
now that our time is done
Alt: now that that time is gone
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Carrot

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Carrot

(In the Course of Events)

In the course of events
I’ve seen my goals hanging just like a carrot in front of my nose
In the struggle for those higher attainments, hell,
I’ve been to the top
and I’ve seen the drop on the other side

And I don’t care if your money’s no good
I don’t care if both your legs are wood
I don’t care what your ma says to do
Just come away with me

It takes time to get where you want to go
and its never quite the same when you get there
but there’s still a couple things I’d like to try with you
and you never can tell it might work out all right

You can sit and talk about life all day
as much as you can talk your questions wont go away
it’s a conversation that leads me to say
just come away with me

I’ve been burned before
and I’ll get burned again
I guess that’s the same for everyone
I know what I need
I know what I want
I know what I get —
they don’t always correspond

You can sit and talk about life all day
as much as you can talk your questions wont go away
it’s a conversation that leads me to say
just come away with me

(C)1974 TK Major
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CLASSIC VERSION:
Carrot

(In the Course of Events)

In the course of events
I’ve seen my goals hanging just like a carrot in front of my nose
In the struggle for those higher attainments, hell,
I’ve been to the top
and I’ve seen the drop on the other side

And I don’t care if your money’s no good
I don’t care if both your legs are wood
I don’t care what your ma says to do
Just come away with me

It takes time to get where you want to go
and its never quite the same when you get there
but that doesn’t stop me cause there’s still a couple things
I’d like to try with you and you never can tell
it might work out all right

You can sit and talk about life all day
as much as you can talk your questions wont go away
it’s a conversation that leads me to say
just come away with me

I’ve been burned before
and I’ll get burned again
I guess that’s the same for everyone
I know what I need
I know what I want
I know what I get —
they don’t always correspond

You can sit and talk about life all day
as much as you can talk your questions wont go away
it’s a conversation that leads me to say
just come away with me

(C)1974 TK Major

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I Called Your Name

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y’know I called your name
when I was afraid
but you were upstate
and you didn’t come
though I thought you might

there was a time when I’d play any game
just to be alive
there was a time
long enough to wait
time enough to wait
time enough to bring it back
and stash it away

a man thought you were the queen
did not mean a thing
but I thought it did
and if you were the queen
I wondered
and I wondered
how you kept it hid
and how did you steal
that shining light
how did you steal that blinding light
how did you steal that shining light from me
how did you steal that pure white light from me

Copyright 1972
T.K. Major
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Little Blue Vacuum Cleaner

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The Finity Blues

Got yer little blue vacuum cleaner
got his paregoric got his Carolina* [own Dust Preener]
got that San Antone
Got that Dorothy Malone

ch: Got the finity blues
Walking round the city in his highway shoes
[got forever and got nothing to do
Got it all, got nothing to lose]

Everything he see he suck it right up
nothing left to do he turn on himself
everything that’s outside must be in
everything is known, you just begin again

[everything that’s outside must be in him
everything is known, or maybe it’s all just beginning

Got that Einstein Circular Space
got a little black hole–he want a big taste
Got the world inside his head
Where will it go when [he finds out he’s] he’s dead

Welcome to Samsara now go home
welcome to my universe–here, God is on the phone
You’re welcome to wonder what it’s all about
But please don’t try to tell me when you find out

(C) 1973,1996 TK Major
(Transcribed from memory with minor revisions Jan 2 1996)
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Notes/Memo

aka The Finity Blues