Legacy from our Parents STRENGTH Cho: Strength is a quality hard to define For it comes in a number of ways And it takes different shapes in the people we love Sometimes it’s an ember, sometimes it’s a blaze My Father could carry my brothers and me On his back and we laughed ’til we […]
Audience: Teens
Animal Crackers
Passive Aggression – a funny little music box love song with a twist! ANIMAL CRACKERS Animal crackers Trapped in a box I let ’em out cause I love ’em a lot Animal crackers Glad to be free You’re funny and cute and You love me! Animal crackers Y’love to play I make you walk and […]
What If?
Scaring Ourselves – something to try when your fears take over! WHAT IF? I’m not scared, but sometimes, when it’s late at night The wind blows and the trees start scratching On my window, I get frightened Because I sleep upstairs, and I know no one’s that tall! I start thinking, what if, it’s not […]
My Little Clock
Respect for Our Time MY LITTLE CLOCK You’ve got a big clock I’ve got a little clock too Your clock’s for your time Your big clock pushes you When you’re in a hurry My little clock’s pushed aside Y’make me use your clock Y’don’t care about my clock’s size When your clock is ticking Then […]
Clean Out The Attic
Family Baggage CLEAN OUT THE ATTIC My Great Great Grandpa made his own leather bag Back when he was still young And it’s been in our family for one hundred years Handed down from father to son It’s bottom is torn, and it’s stained and it’s worn With the secrets of family affairs But we […]
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New Ground
Spirit NEW GROUND The leaf falls from the tree The sap runs deep Snow in the winter Covers seeds that sleep Sun melts the icE And the warm Earth gives Water to the sprouts And the green world lives. Chorus: Watch for a sign Keep your heart alive The spirit breaks new grounD Whenever something […]
So Long
Knowing When to Go SO LONG I’d like to go on singing But I know I have to go We’ve gone through ev’ry song I know You’ve held the harmony I know it’s time, I know it’s time to go, Thank you for the laughter, And the tears you shed on me. Instrumental I won’t […]
My Brother Threw Up On My Stuffed Toy Bunny
by Barry Louis Polisar Loss of a Buddy MY BROTHER THREW-UP ON MY STUFFED TOY BUNNY Chorus: My brother threw-up on my stuffed toy bunny You better not laugh cause it really isn’t funny It was lying in my bed while I was sound asleep But it could have been worse, yeah, it could have […]
Gone For Good
Anger and Blaming GONE FOR GOOD Intro lick [b8&e7/b7&e5/b3&e3/b1&e0/d9&g7/d7&g5/d5&g4/] [lo-e0/e2/e3/d2/d0/a2/a0/e3/-D7(x5453x)-C#7(x4342x)- D7(x5453x) An old brown cow was sittin’ in her pasture eating grass When she looked down at the ground, she saw a black bug walkin’ past. She watched him push and struggle with that little twig he’d found Then she raised her hoof and mashed […]