Hey Day Song for Joni V2

Big Blue Train

Everything’s been folded
Got my suitcase in my hand
Now this big blue train is a rollin’
From the places where I’ve been
I don’t know where I’m a goin’
It’s a snowin’ in the wind
The things that I’ve been a knowin’
Whoa  oohh….
Now all old and broke and spent    (I’m just gonna take it in)

Maybe in the next town
I will find the One
Who’ll help me with my story
Help me get along
I’m not askin’ for too much
Just a little patch of light
To open up the darkness
Of this strange mysterious flight

Oh no I’m not gonna make it
Train’s fallin’ off the track
‘though cold soaked and shakin’
Somehow Someone brought me back….        Michael McGuane Reliablebowmusic 12/8/15


Big Blue Train  - - - Reliablebowmusic

The Truth of You

South wind blowin’
V’s of geese flowin’
To the north…to the north
Sunshine’s higher
Hope is that Mighty Flyer
That hopes you are alright
Thoughts of you
In lines and curves
And scribbles
That can’t convey
The Truth of You….

Your tired eyes
Speakin’ out 
Is your world still on a string
Are your turnstiles caught
In winterlong
Where has gone your spring
Thoughts of you
In lines and curves
And scribbles
That can’t convey
The Truth of You…That’s You

Through your fog 
Of loneliness
And borrowed tunes
Will you roll another number
Find the traces of New Mama
Who will finally get your muse
Thoughts of you
In lines and curves
And scribbles
That can’t convey
The Truth of You

You were right next door
You showed me so much more
Flying rockets
And playing those guitar strings
You helped me find my wings…..

Solo……
South wind blowin’
V’s of geese still flowin’
To the north….Don’t you see the
Sunshines higher
Hope’s that Mighty Flyer
That hopes your’re alright
Thoughts of you
In lines and curves
And scribbles
That can’t convey
The Truth of You….

michael mcguane reliablebowmusic  2016  for Danny

The Truth Of You - - - Reliablebowmusic

Alien Star

Through the strings
Of my guitar
Flows the melodies
Of the ages
Of every living song

Hear the wheels roll
On my car
Down the road we traveled
So familiar
Yet so far gone

See the evidence 
Of space
All the waves of oceans
And cosmos
We still can’t trace

See the lines 
Upon your face
Share the timeless story
Of the journey
Of endless grace

Through the strings
Of my guitar
Flows the melodies
Of the ages
Of every living song

Hear the wheels roll
On my car
Down the roads we traveled
So familiar
Yet so far gone
Like an alien star

See the evidence
Of space
All the waves of every ocean
Every cosmos
We still can’t trace

See the lines
Upon your face
Share the timeless story
Of the journey
Of endless grace

Through the strings 
Of my guitar

Michael McGuane  Reliablebowmusic   June 8th 2016


Soft Soul Man  - - -  Reliablebowmusic  - - -  Reprise

A song for the times ahead....John Truth Experience hails from Binghamton NY area and the following members...Mark Stacey/Joel Huizinga/Rick Czebiniak/Jack Stacey/Michael McGuane.

freedom for all

woody guthrie
amplified
leapt over the wall
takin' it all bird by bird

thaddeus stevens
a massachusetts boy
grewd up fundamental
we had no better friend at all

sojourner truth
had a mighty thirst
for all walk of the childrens
she had a way of talkin' tall

talkin' tall
walking even taller
heedin' that call
walkin' that mighty holler
freedom for all

abraham l. 
met with frederick d.
to help save the nation
searchin'  for the forest and the trees

mlk
was not a holiday
but there was no finer doctor
 to help to cleanse that wound of that disease

Jesus fell asleep
in the fisherman's boat
'midst the stormy sea
found the men standing on their knees

heedin' their call
he was standin' tall
calmed all their weather
He said Boys...won't you follow Me

july 25 2015    
michael mcguane reliablebowmusic

Freedom For All - John Truth Experience

Ghosts of the Many

Who's that coming across the border
Who's that looking out our bell tower
Is it the Ghosts of the Many who came before us
Tell us who's that watching over us now

Who's that coming across the water
Who's that settling up free from the slaughter
Is it the Ghosts of the Many who came before us
Tell us who's that watching over us now

Who's that spread out over the land
Who's that trying to make one last Stand
Is it the Ghosts of the Many who came before us
Tell us who's that watching over us now
Who’s that watching us now….Who’s that watching us now

Who's that fighting us with their words
Who's that trying to bind us with their cords
The Ghosts of the Many who came before us are asking
Who's that watching over us now
The Ghosts of the Many who came before us are asking
Who’s that watching over us now

Who’s that watching us now…..Who’s that watching us now
The Ghosts of the Many….

Ghosts Of The Many - - - Reliablebowmusic

this came about after talking with a young woman who works with her Father on their farm. She has a way with those beautiful cows. She shows us videos of her interactions with them...It is quite evident that the Cows love her and she them as they follow her around and are full of high jinks. She has also helped deliver calves. This is a song for her and the spirit of the family farm. 

Somehow She Knew


Somehow she knew 
Somehow she knew
Somehow she knew them

It was a clear sunny morning
Dew had misted off the ground
She was sittin’ on the tailgate
Of her Daddy’s family farm
Lookin’ all around her
Green hills turnin’ red and gold
Felt the peace steep inside her
She wanted nowhere else to go…..no no

She began to wander
In her element of bliss
Sparrows on the fence posts
Deer so close enough to kiss
Off and in the distance
Came Someones that she knew
Then multiplied their number
More than two by two by two by two by two……

Somehow They knew her way
Whispering each other day by
Her offering of kindness
Brought them into play
Somehow She knew Their way

They came to tell the story
Told since the olden times
They sometimes needed someone else
Help carry on their kind
Just now was that moment
One was lying on their side
Out of breath…close to death
Past worried for their pride

She didn’t skim the surface
Dove into the bottom of the deep
The brilliance of her light shone
When all seemed dark and bleak
Opening her hands out
Reaching in to pull them through
Both came crawling out a shaky start
Then walking out brand new brand new

She had a way
Not everybody do
Communing with the
Children of the Moo

Somehow They knew her way
Whispering each other day by day
Her offering of kindness
Brought them into play
Somehow she knew Their way

Michael McGuane Reliablebowmusic 10/3/16

Somehow She Knew - - - Reliablebowmusic

Michael McGuane guitar/vocals/writer
Dan Olsovsky production/vocals/ and all other instrumensts