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I Can See Myself in My Guitar

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I Can See Myself in My Guitar

I can see myself in my guitar [C G F F]
I can see myself in my guitar
It’s getting kind of old but it’s shiny
I can see myself in my guitar

I can see myself in my car [Am G F F]
I don’t care what anyone says we’ll go far
I can see myself in my car [C G F F]
out in the country, we’ll go far, we’ll go far

I can see my self in everything [Am G F F]
ain’t nothing cosmic, it’s just there
I can see myself in you [C G F F]
and you know I see you everywhere

[and you know and you know and you know
til you’re tired of knowing]
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Notes/Memo

LA’s Not Such a Big Town

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L.A.’S NOT SUCH A BIG TOWN

Well, I hardly know where you’re coming from
but it ain’t hard to see where you’re going to
what you’re coming to)
Hey hey, Darlin’
I just can’t save you now

You hold on to me, so damn tight
then push me away — I walk home alone through the night
thinking about how
I’d be seeing you around

Hey, hey, Darlin’, guess I’ll be seeing you around
After all L.A. ain’t such a big town
Hey hey Darlin, I hope you ain’t feeling down
cause those blues will sit on your head
jack your heart and turn your life around

Now you always argue about everything
In your domain irrationality’s king
I got a list of topics
a mile long that can’t be brung up

You called me up on the telephone
and asked me if I was alone
I said yes —
you said good –and you hung up

Hey, hey, Darlin’, I guess yer feeling proud
after all) ya cataloged my faults told the whole
goldang world out loud
Hey hey darlin, I guess it ain’t so strange
You tore up my body,
broke my heart, and threw away my brains

Well, I tried to talk out all those things
but your inattentive condescendance stings
Hey hey darlin
there’s no point in talking now

Well I never had the money for diamond rings
nor the guaranteed returns wise investment brings
Hey hey darlin,
I guess I’ll be seeing ya around

Hey, hey, Darlin’, guess I’ll be seeing you around
After all L.A. ain’t such a big town
Hey hey Darlin, I hope you ain’t feeling down
cause those blues will sit on your head
jack your heart and turn your life around
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Notes/Memo

 

Mea Culpa, Baby

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Mea culpa, baby
means I’m guilty, I’m the one
I’m the one that broke your heart
but it wasn’t just for fun

I watched as your friends turned away
when you turned to me
I laughed as I left you alone
I set your little soul free

I’m not going to tell you
where I hid your heart
you’ll just have to figure out
who I am
You must go back to the start

I am everything you are not
I’m the other side of the line
Just a matter of push and pull
but the boundary always hides
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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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Notes/Memo

 

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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Notes/Memo