Here's a sampling of my songs from the past 15-20 years.

Tunes With Words

If I Ever Lost My Head

Butter Dish (lyrics)

Why would you want a butter dish?
Does butter even care?
Butter needs a butter dish
Like fish need underwear
It don’t need a dish of its own
Just put in on a plate
And take it off your Christmas list
My young and bonny Kate

Why would you want a gravy boat?
Does gravy like to sail?
Gravy needs a gravy boat
Like it needs the Holy Grail
It don’t need a boat of its own
Just put it in a pot
And take it off your Christmas list
Be glad for what you’ve got

Why would you want a coffee urn
Has coffee earned the right
To have a private dwelling place
To loiter day and night
It don’t need an urn of its own
Just put it in a jar
And take it off your Christmas list
And kiss it au revoir

Why would you want a sugar bowl?
Oh for the love of Pete
Sprinkled from most anything
Is sugar not as sweet?
It don’t need a bowl of its own
For any bowl will do
Take it off your Christmas list
There won’t be one for you

I’ll give you pretty things my love
And tie them with a bow
I’ll light a beautiful Christmas tree
With cândles all aglow
I’ll give you shiny diamonds
And I’ll be your humble slave
But you’ll not have a butter dish
Until I’m in my grave

Oh dry your teary eyes my love
And look beneath the tree
Santa was more generous
Than I can ever be
For there a silvery gravy boat
A sugar bowl I see 
A coffee earn of porcelain
And a butter dish for thee

Butter Dish

Gloom Rock.  Sue on bass and backing vocals.

Much Too Happy

From the Nineties. Janice sings back-up vocals. I played all the instruments and lead vocals.

There's A Place

Recording on a tiny Korg digital 4 track several years ago, but I no longer have this machine or the original file, so I'm unable to work directly on the original tracks.  Using Logic software, I added strings, flutes, electric piano, fart sounds, kick drum, and synth bass to the mp3, and enhanced the sound as best I could.  Totally rearranged the song to feature strings more, and to draw out the bridge and ending.  I really love this song a lot.  The lyrics are silly but sincere.  

I Want You All the Time

Silence is nice every once in a while
Turn off the world and all that commotion
Just close my eyes and pretend that I'm sailing
All by myself in a ship on the ocean

Here comes an Albatross, simple and free
Where are you going?  where do ya fly?
He follows my ship as I drift in the sea
He dives and he soars way up high in the sky

He's flying around and he won't go away
It's nice for a while but now it's annoying
Still up there shrieking, hurting my ears
He poops on the deck and I wish he'd get going

Now I am screaming with blood on my face
He's ripping my flesh with his talons of doom
I run around blindly, fall into the sea
And sink to my my death in a watery tomb

Silence is nice every once in a while
Free from the worries of ever-day strife
Sit and relax for a minute or two
But too much serenity can cost you your life.

Silence

Here's another song from the mid to late '90's featuring my sister Janice and me on vocals.  I've spruced it up a bit with new percussion, electric guitar, and some vocal effects on the "chanting" section near the end.

Dry Socks

This song was written just before Susan and I started dating, in 2004.  I was hanging out at her place with a couple of friends, and Sue was washing her car.  I'm not sure why we didn't help her (maybe a shortage of sponges), but it was fun to watch. 

Wash My Car

Happy feelings make me glow
First my face and then my toe
All my hairs down to their stubs
About as sweet as grizzly cubs
Kiss the world and make it smile
Let it hold your hand a while
Put your tongue into the ear
Of flowing rivers, fresh and clear

Oooh happy feelings
Oooh happy feels in the air
Little flowers in your hair
Do you have a few to spare
Happy feelings everywhere!

Pinch the butt of happiness
Make it scream, "My God!  Oh yes!"
Be yourself until it hurts
While thunder cracks and lightning spurts!
Sleep a while in muddy groves
Deep beyond the hidden coves
Happiness is to be had
So have a happy day, you cad!

Oooh happy feelings
Oooh happy feels in the air
Little flowers in your hair
Do you have a few to spare
Happy feelings everywhere!

Tunes With Words

The Rolling Slowdowns