Old Country Song

A Collection of Hits

13 Can You Burn

Hello and thank you for listening.  Here's a new single off of Joseph James 5.5.  It's now become the kick off song to our shows.  It's got a foot stomping kick drum, rock guitar and smoking piano groove with some sweet harmonica over the top.
With our 2nd charting single #24 onBillboard AC, we're truly making a run for it.
We're honored to be on a bunch of nice NY festivals this summer with Phil Lesh, Dave Mason and playing Carnegie Hall / Pittsburgh in the Fall.  Bitter End NYC just added on October 5th.  Very excited to be back after over selling our I-Heart show there back in May.
Please keep up with us at josephjamesnyc.com
We look forward to playing a city near you soon.
Thank you for your love and support.   
JJ

Better Day

1

Something there is deep inside us 
Beckons us to Love
 A spirit gentle & bounding
One night in the moonlight’s thrall 
Ten eternities worshipful 
By Fury’s counting
War in the morning 
& songs by the evening fire 
Compatriots drinking, adoring
Declared love ye who’ve shared blood in arms
 This is not your King’s due devotion
 No, nothing so boring
She hies to the Wood & its unknowable powers 
His face in the firelight, hours upon hours
 Is he just an animal the colour of flowers? 
History, see how Fury cowers!

2

Something there is deep inside us 
Beckons us to Madness 
A Figure crooked & hoary
Upright & condign to the sins 
Of these litterbug tribes 
& talent trebled, that was Fury
But now how would the King feel? 
What might the lover reveal? 
This un-goated Faun finds appalling
Our sunlight, our once-bright star 
Charming, confident, & kind 
Our fairy archer, our darling
Stumbling round some high wasteland 
Furs matted down by tears of the damned
 By the soot of the fire, by the blood of the Lamb
 Crying out: “Fury I nothing am.”

3

Something there is deep inside us 
Beckons us to Death 
For Whom we spend our lives rehearsing
However we imagine we exist 
By our own wits, no:
 It is only by His mercy
Slain in the schoolyard 
Decaying on some battlefield 
Grant some great reward to the deserving
In this shortened form
Horns shorn, more & more
 I abhor this grand illusion
 They imagine worth preserving
Atoms of betrayal alive in our lungs
 Horrible most of us, just miserable some
 “This is my dog, that’s my place in the sun...” 
What Fury is, why fear we to become?

4

Something there is deep inside us 
Beckons us to Song 
In a chamber like a heart’s, but larger
& to find a heart, tiny in all that darkness 
Takes unmatchable aim 
It takes a genius, it takes an Archer  
Exhume the villages! 
All the artists & arsonists
 Sworn in their boredom in the dark
We all sing now together as ghosts 
& only in the Song
 Do we remember who we are
Failing to fetch Her at first, carry on 
She stops & waits for you in the great beyond 
Just four things to each can e’er truly belong: 
Love, Madness, Death, & Song.

The Knowledge (band version)

Well it started out like any other day on earth,
everything accounted for assigned its worth
Its all that you’ve been working for, since your birth until you die

Grab a cup of coffee out the door so fast, gave you a kiss that could be our last,
I didn’t say I love you but you know that it will always be that way 

VERSE 2:
Step out the door, the air smells so fine
Spring thaw and the dandelions
I take one last look just to know that it is real

Then all in a moment I was beggin please
What i couldn’t plan for brought me to my knees
And as I lay there dying, a voice said to me now
Son what you wanna do with your last time here?

CHORUS:
And I said, play that song that I know so well,
And I’ll sing it out until my final breath
Its the one about love and stars and the way that takes me home
And even though we come and go alone, I know my soul’s part of a greater whole
Ima miss the sun, the sky, and the trees, but most of all I’ll miss you and me

VERSE 3:
 Open ends and words unsaid, little moments that never left your head
All come together to make the bed in which you’re lying
Cause all in an instant it could be the end,
And would you be satisfied with how its been
And as I lay there dying a voice said to me now,
Son what you wanna do with your last time here?


CHORUS:
And I said, play that song that I know so well,
And I’ll sing it out until my final breath
Its the one about love and the stars and the way that takes me home
And even though we come and go alone, I know my soul’s part of a greater whole
And Ima miss the sun, the sky, and the trees, but most of all I’ll miss you and me
And Ima miss the sun, the sky, and the trees, but most of all I’ll miss you and me

You & Me

Lyric: Kevin Reardon & Bobby Joe Peace; Music: Kevin Reardon 

Verse  
Yesterday I drove the gravel road to the house where I was raised  
We moved away when I was twelve but I never forgot that place
Growing up we didn’t have much but our house was full of love
My folks both had to work and they made sure we had enough
It wasn’t much to look at with a creaky old front porch
But to us it was our castle, never needed nothing more  
We took care of each other, stood tall with what we owned 
So, I bought it and I’m moving back and I’m proud to call it home
I’m proud to call it home 

Verse 
Then I got back in my truck, drove down the old main street 
Some storefront names have changed and there’s a brand-new factory
My old town went through tough times, jobs up and went away
But folks were just mule stubborn, wouldn’t give up on this place
From ashes, rust and dust, they brought it back to life
But some things there were lost, progress claims its price 
Now I live here once again, gonna give back what I owe
We’re building our town’s tomorrow and I’m proud to call it home 
I’m proud to call it home

Bridge
I travel for my job all across this big ol’ land 
Meet people of every race and creed, doing all they can
I see towns like mine renewed with self-less sacrifice 
A time to every purpose, folks doing what is right
 
Verse 
So, when I hear some people saying there’s something wrong with the USA
I don’t see that we have lost our edge or that we’ve lost our way 
I can’t deny there’s work to do, we all got to play our part
But I know we’ll pull together from the strength within our hearts
Whether city, town, ranch or farm, no better place on earth  
With the freedom to believe and our belief that freedom works 
So, I’ll shout it from the rooftops, let the whole world know
Our USA is here to stay and I’m proud to call it home
Yeah, I’m proud to call it home 

Outro
It’s great to live in the USA
Great to live in the USA, great to live in the USA and I’m proud to call it home
It’s great to live in the USA
Great to live in the USA, great to live in the USA and I’m proud to call it home

Proud To Call It Home

Art of Simplicity

Colasurdo - Don't Be A Dope

Something Like Summer (D. Allen / J. Arthur / C. Fradin)

I wrote this song in the late '90's with Hall of Fame writer Tom Shapiro. Jason Sellers is singing on this fab demo.  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Shapiro

Love Like a Wheel

Demo co-written by Khris Berry/Tony Acosta/Travis Myles

contact petropoliskhris@gmail.com for information to record 

Words and Music © Khris Berry, Tony Acosta, Travis Myles

God Sent

That special someone that you fell in love with but never told her until it was TOO late! What might've been is all that's left to ponder!

BREAKIN' MY HEART

Joe Vulpis is an award-winning music producer, keyboardist and song-writer.
Currently with his 2nd single off of Joseph James 5.5 charting on major market radio.  Keep up with us @ josephjamesnyc.com.  IG/TT:  @josephjamesnyc  
Thank you,
JJ


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Better Day

Joseph James (Vulpis)

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