Love on the Run

(by K. Brown)

El sonido de la risa, y las guitarras.
Deriva en las calles
Escucho los latidos de tu corazon

Todo sentimiento de miedo o peligro se desvanece.
Hacia la noche
No hay nadie que venga por nosotros esta noche.

The sound of laughter, and guitars
Drifts out on the streets
I listen to the beating of your heart

All sense of fear or danger fades away
Into the night
There is noone who comes for us tonight

Chorus 1
Oh Corrina
My lovely one
How is it we are bandits on the run
We are only lovers
In each others arms
Our only crime is love

Chorus 2
We are only lovers
In each others arms
No consequence to anyone

I watch you as you sleep now
Your face no trace of guile
An innocence that no mask can disguise

Softly touch your olive skin
A gentle kiss upon your lips A gentle kiss but not goodbye
This cannot be our longing last goodbye If this must be, then let the bullet fly

Oh Corrina …

The dawn creeps in the window
I watch you as you rise
And rub the sleep out of your eyes

Who knows what the day brings
By night again we hide
But for now I have you by my side

Oh Corrina ….

Morning will come soon now
We saddle up at light
The sun to warm our faces as we ride

Quickly now Corrina
The Federales come
Once again we must hurry and take flight

(in Open G  ... S. Stills Spanish Suite for reference)

An Old Man's Lament

(by K. Brown)

In the time of my beginning
The sun, it ruled the skies
There for all to wonder at
Companion mountains high
But, that times become so distant
I can’t recall now if I try
The sun extinguished, mountains levelled
Empty in the sky

In the days that I was younger
I drew water from the well
I was forever thirsty
And could not get my fill
But the more I kept on drinking
I could not break the spell
Until I found, that it was me
At the bottom of the well

(chorus)
I’ll wait for you my darlin’
I’ll wait for you my love
In the time of my deliverance
From the waters of the flood
I go to cross that river now
Body spent and terrified
But I’ll wait for you, and my redemption
On the other side

The land, we raped and pillaged her
Her people we did maim
In the name of God and Country
We left her ground blood-stained
We explained our lapse of sanity
By saying it was just and right
But those words seem cold and useless now
As I stare into the night

The time it goes so quickly
Like a flock flushed to the wing
All this time that I’ve been living
Seems like only yesterday was Spring
I did not care to listen
To the prophets on my way
So now it is I say to you
Step lightly on the day

In these days as I grow older
Bent and mystified
I question, then if left to me
Would all be justified
But I never raised my voice to cry out
Louder than a sigh
I cannot tell you what to do
For that you must decide

Note: This song ultimately rewrote itself as "Allies", also posted here on this blog.

Barstool Blues #1

(by K. Brown)

I’m sittin’ here waitin’ for my ship to come in
But it’s hesitatin’, and my heads in a spin
Maybe I should just go on home

When I walked in this evening I was feelin’ O.K.
But the longer I sit here, I’m just wastin’ away
Maybe it’s time to go home

You know my wife and my kids
They’re all countin’ on me
To fulfill my obligation to their American Dream
But the dream they’re all dreamin
Somehow ain’t comin’ true
Just not sure anymore if it was my dream too

No shine on my shoes
Kickin’ dust up the street
I’m like yesterday’s news
Can’t find the beat
Seems like no sense in just sittin’ here
Singing these blues
So I’m going home

They say lifes in the living, and I suppose that it’s right
But the thing they don’t know is how I wound up here tonight
Maybe I should just go on home

I’m not sure when I detoured, should of zigged when I zagged
Nothing really gets clearer unless you’re  half in the bag
I know it’s time to go home

When I wake up tomorrow
And she asks me where have you been
she'd say you go to hell
I'd say, I already been
And you know I'd be right
Could be that’s why I came in here tonight

No shine on my shoes
Kickin’ dust up the street
I’m like yesterday’s news
Can’t find the beat
Seems like no sense in just sittin’ here
Singing these blues
So I’m going home


Note: Standard tuning D

Deep and Wide

(by K. Brown)

There’s a river flowin’ through my heart tonight
There’s a river flowin’ deep and wide
Nowhere for me to run from it
Nowhere for me to hide
A river’s flowin’ deep and wide

Gonna jump into the water, swim with all my might
Jumpin’ into that water deep and wide
Gonna take all of my strength
To find the other side
There’s a river flowin deep and wide

I see you standing on the shore
Save me from being all alone
My arms reach out to touch you
And I’m strugglin’ to take hold
The water’s sweepin me up fast
Got to keep you in my sight
Goin to swim this water deep and wide
Goin to get to you tonight

A river’s flowin through my heart tonight
A river’s flowin deep and wide
Goin to calm that river’s fury
You’re all I want tonight
That river’s flowin deep and wide

Nowhere for me to run from it
Nowhere for me to hide
That river’s flowin deep and wide

Dance a Ceili (Kaylee's Song)

(by K. Brown)
She's a twister blowin' down the hall
Did I just hear a screen door slam
Who moved my favorite rockin’ chair
Surely not the summer wind

She breezes ‘round the house all day
Who cares ‘bout worring anyway
No fear at all when nighttime falls
Better leave a light on in the hall

Hey there little girl
Don't trip on that moonbeam
Be careful little girl
You go slidin’ down that rainbow
Hey now little girl
Your momma’s callin’ after you
Hey now little girl
Don’t ride the wind and leave to soon

And dance a Ceili ‘round the room

Where does time go once you're gettin' old
Feel like that screen door rockin’ off it’s hinge
That summer breeze been rattlin’ ‘round the hallway
wait'in on when you'll be round again

When you think you'll be around again?

(break)

Like a twister blowin' down the hall
Did I just hear a screen door slam
Who moved my favorite rockin’ chair
Surely not the summer wind

She breezes ‘round the house all day
Who cares ‘bout worrin’ anyway
No fear at all when nighttime falls
But leave a light on in the hall

Where you been little girl
Trippin' on a moonbeam
Where you been little girl
slidin’ down a rainbow
Where you been little girl
Your momma’s callin’ after you
Be careful little girl
Don’t ride the wind and leave to soon

And dance a Ceili ‘round the room
Dance a Ceili 'round the room
Yeah, dance a Ceili 'round the room

For those that don't know ... a Ceili is just a Scottish party dance. (So is my Kaylee).

Hummingbird Flyer

(by K. Brown)

 

Tires on the whiteline
listen to 'em sing
Elvis on the radio
before he was The King
singin' That's Alright Mama
and man I’m goin’ higher
Wheels got to rollin’
It’s the Hummingbird Flyer

Roll on bird
man I'm goin' higher
Commited true believers
on that flyer

That bird rocks back and forth
Her music in the air
Got the sweetest sound this side of Graceland
Joyful everywhere
Tomorrow it won’t matter
If you’re broke and on the street
wheels got to roll on
To that Hummingbird’s beat

Roll on bird
man I'm goin' higher
Commited true believers
on that Hummingbird flyer

Take that long, lonesome ride
Until you find your glory
In the church of Mother Country Music
You will write your story
With a pocket full of songs
Boy believe in your own dream
Tonight you’re flyin’ high
gone ridin' with the King

The bird she keeps on flyin
She sings a song of truth
Of the many who have passed this way
Her music’s living proof
Tomorrow it won’t matter
If you ended up long gone
Those wheels just keep on rollin’
To that Hummingbird’s song

Roll on bird
man I'm goin' higher
Commited true believer
on that Hummingbird flyer

(Chorus)

Feel those wheels a rollin’
The Hummingbird flyer

Catch the last train to Memphis
On the Hummingbird flyer



Note: This isn't necessarily the first song I ever wrote ... but it is pretty close to that. There may have been one or two others long gone now ... I'd say this song was inspired by my acquiring the guitar of the same name. (Everybody writes an ode to their guitar ... don't they?)  Although recorded here on a completely different guitar ... go figure ...