Daddy's Girl Blues

When I was a little girl

My daddy said to me

There’s nothin’ that you cannot do

Don’t let the world get down on you

Got a little older

Headstrong and full of sass

Daddy’d keep me in line

Would take no ’tude from Miss Devine

Taught me to tow the line

My daddy had a compass

I didn’t know where to go

He handed it to me and said

Lead with your heart but use your head

Know my daddy loved me

I was his number one girl

Loved me when I wasn’t strong

Knew no shame when I was wrong

Taught me I could stand tall on my own

When other men came a knockin

All hands to be precise

I could always fall right back on my daddy’s good advice

He’d tell me

These men

Have not walked in your shoes

These men

Most of them won’t have a clue

Some will wanna waste your time

Tell them no not on my dime

Keep your heart your soul and mind

As you move on down the line

Instrumental Solos

A simple man

Tall and handsome man

Took one look from him

To smarten up my mind

A second look from those brown eyes

I’d know things were fine

If I messed up really bad

Daddy’d look at me

Say girl don’t worry none bout that

You’ll do what’s right you’ll see

Raise a glass of red wine

To the man that shaped my life

It’s a debt I can’t repay

And for his life I’m grateful every day

I ask the lord when day is through

To shower blessings over you

Cause no one holds a candle to

The gentle man that I once knew

Book

People have so many faces

Some are hard, some are painted

Hard to tell with you as time goes by

Knowing you from day to day

Can’t put my finger on the gauge

You say read me like a book just turn the page

Life it has so many phases

Finish one, how it ages

Look the mirror doesn’t let us choose

You’re the book I can’t put down

I’m tied into your story line

I’ll read your book, I will be your muse

Kaleidoscopes and cotton candy

Imagination comes in handy

I’ll tuck in your book awhile

Every word a thoughtful prayer

Do will lose myself there

And the missing pages

I look/search I don’t see

Pages that you’ve hidden carefully

Guess I’ll pick you up again

A book can be a long lost friend

Words you craft seem to set me free

Hold you close In quiet spaces

Keep you out of careless places

Next to me in reverie

Turn the pages carefully

I will let you comfort me

Keep you close you’ll be safe you’ll see

Tag last time:

I will carry you and you will carry me

I will keep you close and you’ll be safe you’ll see

I will be your muse and you will capture me

Next to me in reverie I’ll turn the pages carefully

You’re the book I can’t put

Elmo

I’m a sucker for a man

Not GQ or elite

A little rough and tumble, the right amount of sweet

He’ll have that certain somethin’

Makes me want to treat him right

The touch that sets my soul on fire all through the night

Well Alright

He would be my confidante

On him I could depend

Every little step I take my bestie till the end

All these things you were and more my life one big complete

I carried you this way my friend down every street

Bittersweet

I’m on the Greyhound, headin’ back

A kid’s watchin’ Elmo

On her i-pad

You left me hangin’

Haven’t heard a word

Feelin’ numb and lost in Elmo’s World

You had much to recommend you

There’s things I could absolve

I just don’t have any time to wait till you evolve

We had dreams and now we don’t

I’ll have to find my way

I’m on the GH headin’ home

It’s been a day

Then there’s Elmo

Nothin’ more to say

New Year's Ditty

I think I’ll be fine

Trust that my mind

Won’t let me go where the darkness defines me

Know I’ll be tested

When new year rolls ‘round

6 years  

I’ve been alone in this town

My life has been blessed

Known where I’m at

Choices I’ve made hampered all of that

Know I’ll be tested

When new year rolls ‘round

I’ll be alone at the count down

If I believed in God I’d get right down and pray

If I believed in fate well then a fatalist I’d stay

Don’t know what to believe in but I do believe in me

If I’m gonna be alone

I’m damn good company

The party begins

 It’s a fresh start

The popping sound I hear quotes my beating heart

I’m standing alone

Hoping you’re near

Maybe next year

You’ll find me my dear

I know one day

We’ll find ourselves here

Springtime

Springtime

Hyacinth blooming

Tulips are peeking seeking the sunshine

Listen, thunder is rolling

Gone are the sleet and snow

Every moment New

Sun glistens on the dew

Showers upon us warm the Earth

Renewing life, gifting us birth

This time when life awakens

Deep in my heart

I hope for us all that we

Can give reverence to this harmony

And listen to the springtime

Every sense alive

Just let the moment guide

Springtime holds such bliss

That’s the thing

Living your life

Like it is spring

Listen

Whispering winds

Are sharing a secret

Murmuring through the trees

They say spring is always here

Inside each moment live each moment be each moment true

Wash Away the Wrong

Falling rain it washes over all

I want to stand beneath it when it falls

I want to feel the beads of rain land on my palm

The falling rain inside my hand to wash away the wrong

I could wish that I stood in the sun

That all the rain was warmed away and done

I’d like to feel the rays upon my back my neck my feet

I’m standing in the rain the sun cannot compete

Your smile lit up my soul it was like basking in the sun

It warmed me on the inside and my worries all were gone

From fences that I put up to an open mountain glen

The freedom of an innocent

I wish it here again

I will seek to cast my heart in flight

Stars in the sky will be my guiding light

The day will come the clouds will break the warming rays will make me strong

But for right now

The rain is coming down

Last Time

I’ll let the rain fall down on me and wash the wrong

The rain is coming down

What if I'd Met you Then

Sometimes when I’m wishing I had met you long ago

Somewhere in my checkered past could you have stemmed the flow

Of suitors more akin to lovers lost and not checked in

Men that I had thought were safe and turned out to be out of place

I often think what if I’d met you then

Sometimes when I’m searching for the answer to loves lost

Tossed away quite cavalier they’re gone and now forgot

How did I never see that when I lived in clueless bliss

There was a joyous soulful depth a true love could impart to this

I really wish I could have met you then

But as we know

Mistakes are made

Tears are shed and hearts protected

And what we really think is love

Is not what we suspected

Time has passed

But time stands still

Looking in your eyes

Found you now, let’s seize the day

Now time can’t stand in our way

So I sit and wonder

Gazing in your eyes

With a tinge of disbelief  begin to realize

Somehow it all aligned this moment when our paths combined

For the first time ever in my life I know it’s true

I couldn’t plan for this, life gifted you

I found that  special someone

And it’s you

Whitehorse, Yukon

Reflecting on the road I’ve walked less travelled

I guess I’ve done my best well I don’t know

I’m looking north to home there’s snow

A thousand miles to trek

This writer needs to pack things up and go

Reflecting on the Northern Lights in Whitehorse

Gods painting his reflection on the sky

I’ve been away for far too long

I’m looking to return

Please light the fire because I’m coming home

I wish that I could story tell like Joni

Give me Leonard’s skill to pen the word

Woulda coulda shoulda never moved me to the heights

Get me back to Whitehorse

‘Neath the dancing lights

The emperor she has no clothes to speak of

Sits on her throne believing in her prose

I’m looking north to home there’s snow

Thinking I should pack

What’s keeping me well I really don’t know

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I seek the peace that I can find

Where earth and sun light up the sky

I need to wrap this up and go/I need to finish hit the road

Back to the shimmring lights I know

To find myself beneath the lights that glow

What’s stopping me?

Well I don’t know

Cobwebs don’t make trusting friends I

Need to give my head a shake and then

Where would I go

Do you ever feel you don’t belong

You’ve worked hard to fit in and then as

 long as friends they laugh with you or share with you on Instagram or

Send you texts all new emojis, funny there’s no Trojan horse there 

Be so careful with what you let in

Wonderin'

Many times I’ve wondered

As I look at you just standing there

How I got this crazy lucky

Look at me I’m walkin’ on air

Don’t know why we fit together

Just the way we do

I know that I’m falling real hard in a really big way for you

Other times I’ve wondered

When we’re curling up as lover spoons

How we found this slice of heaven

Then your breath it steals ‘cross my skin

The meld of mind and heart we forge                          

Casts any doubt to sea

Darkness steals and slumber takes us

Where it is we need it to be

Forgive me when I’m headstrong

Love me when I’m hard to love

I know my imperfections flaw me

I’ll do my best to rise above

If you’ve ever wondered

When you catch my eye or touch my hand

If I could be with you forever

This I know and by this I stand

My answer, simple, there’s no doubt

My spoken words are true

There's nowhere else for me to be when I’m standing next to you