Sugar City on a drunk Make or break that's for sure Chips are down, life in a trunk Sugar City be the cure Rolling out of Sugar City Off my feet on Bullet Street Gamblin' joints showed no pity Personal best beat retreat I took them on and I lost Now it's time to avoid the cost It's a hard road to walk I know With a hat-full of rain and snow With...Learn More

Eagle Mountain Deep in the night A smuggler's plane Flying low Crashed in a storm Lay out of sight Buried in fresh Winter snow Ascending high Descending higher Good times roll 'round the bend Well they all got rich Then they all got poor Before that summer Came to an end Early in spring Before climbers found it Their backpacks The talk of the...Learn More

I walked a mile, ran a mile Hitched a mile, paused awhile Smiled like a neon sign Those coming on whistles blowing down the line Tramplin dust through every town Stormcracked and scuffled down Thanks for these boots of mine Those coming on whistles blowing down the line There's a land I'm thinking Big pictures they appeared Wide open spaces For...Learn More

Holy Agnes walks around, on the beat Tent show gospel, Piccolo Pete Hustling every chance and all they chance to meet Shuffling away on dancing feet Wowee what a night, what a night It's a weird old city alright Hustling every chance and all they chance to meet Shuffling away on dancing feet Turkish mocca rocking room, Efa the rider Tobacco...Learn More

There's peace in the valley There's nobody here Been this way For many a year I cross the bridge Hear birds sing And the hilltop invites No one to nothing Abandoned Out of mind Stuck in their ways Those left behind Abandoned For all to reclaim Had its time, never again I'm growing old I try to keep up But I lag behind With a half empty...Learn More

I gotta get my kin away from here Situation's gone past all my worst fears Authorities have flipped, the work's all gone Gotta get my kin away Better get our stuff together no delay Nothing for us to return to back home anyway Seems the whole damn country's gone down the chute Better get our stuff together Something on the horizon looking...Learn More

Come on over to the shack Place beside the railroad track You can see its smoking stack When the blues come, jump the jive When you're down, ain't got jack When you're feeling out of whack It's the place that'll pull you back When the blues come, jump the jive We could dance together Every Saturday night Like birds of feather Nestle up close, I...Learn More

You were passing through you said But took a long time to go You were easy on the eye Even easier to know Talked as fast as those cars The ones that few can afford to drive Part of your manic charm That brought the days alive Three random verses Were all that you left I've no title yet I couldn't take you away from all that On me you did...Learn More

Step aside For the heavy rollers Give the bird To the crazies that holler Many country miles Left to roam In a place Where nobody goes In a place Nobody knows Hard scrabbling man A-travelling home How times have changed Nobody Not a soul No one buys The desperate smile Least my boots Can see out the miles Getting blinded By flashing chrome I'm a...Learn More

A symphony of guns through the canyon Ragged pony men hunting for the head Of an outlaw from distant sands Gang of four he led from those lands North to steal a fortune, now his gang lay dead Picture palaces, souped up cars, cathedral shopping malls Best food, clothes and shelter, them folk got the lot The weary sheriff shouted, 'Game's up You've...Learn More

Glad to be in for the long run Comforting to know you're near Winds and storms are rising Getting bigger every year Glad to be in for the long run Got a little homely house under a hill Where the lights go out when day is over And we sit back perfectly still So many days spent together girl I couldn't know you better if I tried I can't imagine...Learn More

Eyes to the right The general's coming Fanfare blows, drums exploding Eyes to the left My father's sighing Mother cries, her shoulders shaking Eyes straight ahead All I see, all I see Is what's in front of me and so One look up to the heavens and go Eyes to the right Flak is flying Diving blind, forward driving Eyes to the left A body's...Learn More