They say he’s frozen many hearts
I think he has no soul
He took you away from me
When I didn’t think you’d go

He said he knows how to treat a woman
And that he’s not afraid to cry
It seems to me you’ve fallen, for snowman’s lies

    He’s a snowman and he, can’t be true
    He’ll say anything to, Get to you
    He’s cloudin your heart, deceivin your mind
    I’m tellin ya girl, I know his kind
    He’ll, use you up and then, throw you away
    And promise you things that, I’d never say
    Then he’ll take everything he can
    Cause he’s a snowman

Ya know I’ve tried to tell you
You don’t believe it’s true
You tell me I’m just jealous-and that I
Haven’t got a clue

Cause he knows just how to treat you
And that he’s not afraid to cry
It seems to me you’ve fallen, for snowman’s lies

    He’s a snowman and he, can’t be true
    He’ll say anything to, Get to you
    He’s cloudin your heart, deceivin your mind
    I’m tellin ya girl, I know his kind
    He’ll, use you up and then, throw you away
    And promise you things that, I’d never say
    Then he’ll take everything he can
    Cause he’s a snowman
 
       The girls all love his smile
       Their moms think he’s so nice
       But deep within the snowman’s chest
       Lies a heart of ice, cause 
    
    He’s a snowman and he, can’t be true
    He’ll say anything to, Get to you
    He’s cloudin your heart, deceivin your mind
    I’m tellin ya girl, I know his kind
    He’ll, use you up and then, throw you away
    And promise you things that, I’d never say
    Then he’ll take everything he can
    Cause he’s a snowman, snowman

    He’s a snowman

©   3/00   J. Michael Tracy   All Rights Reserved


Snowman (s)

(verse)
I love this land that I was born in
Cause we can be what we can be
-A place where we, can make our dreams come true
--We can speak our minds--and we’re livin’ free yeah

We try to show the world a better life
---And help them understand
These things that we have here—are ringin’ loud and clear
For every woman, child-------and every man
(chorus)
   -We’ve got happy—and we’ve got sad
   -We’ve got good—and we’ve got bad
   -We’ve got rich—and we’ve got poor
   -We’ve got less---but lots of more yeah

   -We have hot---and we have cold
   -We’ve got young---and we’ve got old
   -In this land of Red, White and Blue
   -It’s why we love America
   ---And we’re comin’ ta you
(verse)
Everyday hero’s put their lives on the line
-Americans----through and through
---They keep us safe, in this land of the free
Away or here at home---cause this is what they do

-Thanks to them-we’ll see the stars tonight
----And we’re thankful just to be
Alive and kickin’----to face a brand-new-day
-Cause in this land of ours—that’s how it’s spose to be
(chorus)
   -We’ve got happy—and we’ve got sad
   -We’ve got good—and we’ve got bad
   -We’ve got rich—and we’ve got poor
   -We’ve got less---but lots of more yeah

   -We have hot---and we have cold
   -We’ve got young---and we’ve got old
   -In this land of Red, White and Blue
   -It’s why we love--America
   ---And we’re comin’ ta you

(tag)
   --That’s why we love--America
   ---And we’re comin’ ta you
  
 -------Ta you
   
We’re comin’ ta you
   
-------Ta you
   
We’re comin’ ta you


-------Ta you
   
We’re comin’ ta you


©  6/00   J. Michael Tracy & Barry Doyle   All Rights Reserved


Why we love America (s)

(verse)
Drivin’ down this lonely road
Tryin’ to find my way back home

Could it be I never will
Girl I hope you’re waiting still
(chorus)
So Girl won’t ya tell me
You’re still waiting there, with open arms

Girl won’t ya tell me
You still care for me, and our love goes on
(verse)
Don’t know how I came this far
I only wanted to be with you

Could it be I never will
Girl I hope you’re waiting still
(verse)
Drivin’ down this lonely road
Tryin’ to find my way back home

Could it be I never will
Girl I hope you’re waiting still
(chorus)
So Girl won’t ya tell me
You’re still waiting there, with open arms

Girl won’t ya tell me
You still care for me, and our love goes on

(instrumental verse)

(verse)
Don’t know how I came this far
I only wanted to be with you

Could it be I never will
Girl I hope you’re waiting still
(chorus)
So Girl won’t ya tell me
You’re still waiting there, with open arms

Girl won’t ya tell me
You still care for me, and our love goes on


©  7/97  J. Michael Tracy & David Hill   All Rights Reserved


Won't ya tell me (s)

(verse)
You might think you know me, but you don’t, no you don’t
You might think that I’ll come back but I won’t, no I won’t

I think that I might know my self, much better than you
The way you talk about me, you’d think I was a fool
(verse)
You might think that I can take what you do, to my heart
You might think I’m pretty dumb but I am, very smart

You forget that I’m a man and, I got my pride
I think you’ll find it’s you that’s on the outside

(chorus)
   Cause I ain’t gonna think of you, what you say or what you do
   You’re lyin’ eyes have been too cruel to me, yeah, yeah
(instrumental ½ verse)

(chorus)
   No I ain’t gonna think of you, what you say or what you do
   You’re lyin’ eyes have been too cruel to me, yeah, yeah
(verse) 
You might think you know me, but you don’t, no you don’t
You might think that I’ll come back but I won’t, no I won’t

You tell me I’m behind the times, and over the hill
Goodbye for good this time, cause I’ve had my fill
(chorus)
   Cause I ain’t gonna think of you, what you say or what you do
   You’re lyin’ eyes have been too cruel to me, yeah, yeah
(chorus)
   No I ain’t gonna think of you, what you say or what you do
   You’re lyin’ eyes have been too cruel to me, yeah, yeah


©  6/99  J. Michael Tracy  All Rights Reserved


You might think (s)

(verse)
When I was four years old, Daddy left us alone
Chose another life, found another home

You would not give me up, and, walk away
Cause that’s not in your heart, you made sure I knew that
(pre chorus)
Every day of my life, you were there for me
But now
(chorus)
  You live in a yesterday, where I can’t go
  You ain’t comin’ back, and I miss you so
  I won’t be leavin’ you, until you’re free
  I promise Momma
  You can count, on me
(verse)
You bought my first guitar, with some money you’d saved
From your second job, and you never complained

You worked so hard I know, just so I could play
And now it breaks my heart, that you don’t remember
(pre chorus)
Every day of my life, you were there for me
And now
(chorus)
  You live in a yesterday, where I can’t go
  You ain’t comin’ back, and I miss you so
  I won’t be leavin’ you, until you’re free
  I promise Momma
  You can count, on me
(instrumental verse)

(chorus)
  You live in a yesterday, where I can’t go
  You ain’t comin’ back, and I miss you so
  I won’t be leavin’ you, until you’re free
  I promise Momma
  You can count, on me

©  10/00   J. Michael Tracy   All Rights Reserved


You can count on me (s)

(verse)
----My friends say you deceive me but---I don’t really care
They look at us and wonder why----I’m still there

---When you walked out they bet I wouldn’t
----See ya no more

---Imagine their surprise
----To see you at my door
(chorus)
   I really missed you
   Just let me kiss you
   --Ya knew I’d take you back—with no strings or ties

   I’m really taken
   There’s no mistakin’ cause
   --It just ain’t life without your good lies
 
   Your good lies
(verse)
---I know I’m not the only fish----in your sea
And no one understands that Baby-----better than me

---When you left Thursday night, I thought,
----I wouldn’t see ya no more

---But what a nice surprise
----To see you at my door

(chorus)
   I really missed you
   Just let me kiss you
   --Ya knew I’d take you back—with no strings or ties

   I’m really taken
   There’s no mistakin’ cause
   --It just ain’t life without your good lies
   
(bridge)
    ----Sometimes life don’t always----treat you nice
    Ya gotta make it interestin--by mixin’ in a little spice
    Oh yeah
(inst. verst)

(chorus)
   I really missed you
   Just let me kiss you
   --Ya knew I’d take you back—with no strings or ties

   I’m really taken
   There’s no mistakin’ cause
   --It just ain’t life without your good lies

(tag)
      Your good lies

       Your good lies

        Oh yeah                                     



©   6/01   J. Michael Tracy   All Rights 


Your good lies (s)

(verse 1)
Sailed away—to the Islands
I need’n to be free
From all the pain and heartache
That life bestowed on me

My future seemed uncertain
But it proved to be untrue
I bless the day you found me
Cause somehow girl you knew
(chorus)
   7 days in heaven 
   Is what you gave--to me
   7 days in heaven
   Beside your gentle sea
   Sailing to your sunset
   Dockin’ in your bay
   7 days in heaven
   Took this man’s pain away
(verse 2)
You took me in my fortress
Coaxed me from my shell
You helped me to believe again
And escape my private hell

I woke up—one mornin
Reached out and you were gone
Now I believe in Angels
And  know that you are one
(chorus)
   7 days in heaven 
   Is what you gave--to me
   7 days in heaven
   Beside your gentle sea
   Sailing to your sunset
   Dockin’ in your bay
   7 days in heaven
   Took this man’s pain away
(outro)
   7 days in heaven
   Took all my pain away
                                                                    
©  10/00  J. Michael Tracy   All Rights Reserved


7 days in heaven  (s)

(verse 1)
My Daddy---was the coach--of an all white little league team
Cause in the 60’s---in the South- there was only white ones
‘Til a shy black boy came searchin---for his field of dreams
And the first black crossed the line—on Daddy’s Diamond
(chorus)
   Daddy never chose his players by their skin
   He didn’t---see the color—he saw the kid
   He loved kids—and Daddy was a kind one
   And everybody was welcome to play—on Daddy’s Diamond
(verse 2)
The other coaches pitched a fit-but Daddy showed the way
And it makes me proud that he was not the blind one
Cause he took a stand—and now a thousand kids can play
On a hundred fields that rose—from Daddy’s Diamond
(chorus)
   Daddy never chose his players by their skin
   He didn’t---see the color—he saw the kid
   He loved kids—and Daddy was a kind one
   And everybody was welcome to play—on Daddy’s Diamond
(bridge)
   It’s been fourty years since Daddy opened up that door
   Now any kid can cross that line--black and white, rich and poor cause
(chorus)
   Daddy never chose his players by their skin
   He didn’t---see the color—he saw the kid
   He loved kids—and Daddy was a kind one
   And everybody was welcome to play—on Daddy’s Diamond
(outro)
   And everybody was welcome to play—on Daddy’s Diamond

  
©  3/99  J. Michael Tracy and Tommy Murrah   All Rights Reserved


Daddys Diamond  (s)

(verse 1)
Look at me—ain’t it cool
Never been nobody’s fool
Finally found my place here in the sun

Worked like hell—all these years
Through the heartaches and the tears
Now I’m lovin life and havin fun
(pre-chorus)
Every night I stare in wonder at the starlit sky
Never took the time before
Now I sit and wonder why
(chorus)
Ok I’m no millionaire
But I have been most everywhere
Livin in this good old U.S.A.

I’ve found what I was lookin for
And I don’t need nothin more
Lovin life believe me I’m OK
(verse 2)
Someday I might--lose my hair
But that’s OK, I don’t care
It don’t really matter much to me

I’m doin things, I ain’t done
Finally found the girl that I believe in
And who believes in me
(pre-chorus)
Every night I stare in wonder at the starlit sky
Never took the time before
Now I sit and wonder why
(chorus)
Ok I’m no millionaire
But I have been most everywhere
Livin in this good old U.S.A.

I’ve found what I was lookin for
And I don’t need nothin more
Lovin life believe me I’m OK
(instramental verse)

(chorus)
(pre chorus)
Every night I stare in wonder at the starlit sky
Never took the time before
Now I sit and wonder why
(chorus)
Ok I’m no millionaire
But I have been most everywhere
Livin in this good old U.S.A.

I’ve found what I was lookin for
And I don’t need nothin more
Lovin life believe me I’m OK
(end chorus)
Ok I’m no millionaire
But I have been most everywhere
Livin in this good old U.S.A.

I’ve found what I was lookin for
And I don’t need nothin more
(outro)
Lovin life believe me I’m OK

Lovin life believe me I’m ok



©   9/00  J. Michael Tracy   All Rights Reserved


Believe me I'm OK  (s)

(verse 1)
The house is hot and the sky’s so clear
I said girl “Gotta great I deer”
Let’s hit the deck and kick off our shoes
Crank up the stereo and let’s cut loose

(chorus)
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   A cool breeze blows and it feels so right
   Getting’ down doin’ what we like
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   Kick up our heels in the full moon light
   If we get loud it’ll be alright
   Cause we’re dancin’ on the deck tonight

(verse 2)
We’ll go to town do the Boot Scoot Boogie
--Two step-in to the Chatahoochie
Jump down turn around Watermelon Crawl
Do the Achy Breaky Heart and pray the deck don’t fall

(chorus)
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   A cool breeze blows and it feels so right
   Getting’ down doin’ what we like
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   Kick up our heels in the full moon light
   If we get loud it’ll be alright
   Cause we’re-dancin’ on the deck tonight

(bridge)
Those burgers on the grill---they show smell nice
Citroneller candles so the skeeters won’t bite

(chorus twice)
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   A cool breeze blows and it feels so right
   Getting’ down doin’ what we like
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   Kick up our heels in the full moon light
   If we get loud it’ll be alright
   Cause we’re-dancin’ on the deck tonight

   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   A cool breeze blows and it feels so right
   Getting’ down doin’ what we like
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   Dancin’ on the deck tonight
   Kick up our heels in the full moon light
   If we get loud it’ll be alright
   Cause we’re-dancin’ on the deck tonight



     ©  4/99  Tommy Murrah and  J. Michael Tracy  All Rights Reserved


Dancin' on the deck tonight  (s)

(verse 1)
Life had nothin’ to live for, and died as it came true
As I watched the one I’d loved, tear my life apart

You were happy and livin’ in ease and luxury
But you gave it all away to heal my heart
(chorus)
When I was feelin’ low, you lifted up my soul
The magic that you made became reality

I love ya more each day, so don’t you ever go away
The sky would fall, my tears would flow
Cause Baby you could never know
My world would end the day you went away
(instrumental verse)
(chorus)
When I was feelin’ low, you lifted up my soul
The magic that you made became reality

I love ya more each day, so don’t you ever go away
The sky would fall, my tears would flow
Cause Baby you could never know
My world would end the day you went away

(verse 2)
---A super hero, you became to me
You rescued me from a life of pain and misery

But I have one advantage, it’s somethin’ that I do
Yeah twice the love you give to me I’ll give it back to you
(chorus)
Babe when I was feelin’ low, you lifted up my soul
The magic that you made became reality

I love ya more each day, so don’t you ever go away
The sky would fall, my tears would flow
Cause Baby you will never know
My world would end the day you went away
(outro)
The sky would fall, my tears would flow
Cause Baby you will never know
My world would end the day you went away



©  4/98   J. Michael Tracy   All Rights Reserved


Don't you ever go away  (s)

My name is John Michael Tracy I write songs, jmtsongs.com , love photography, hunting, fishing and all of the outdoors. I was born on Jan. 11, 1957 in Elmira, NY.  I’m the oldest of six children, and my family lived, for most of my youth, in Athens, PA., which is right across the border from Upstate New York.   
	My parents had me take piano lessons when I was a kid, and when I was a teenager, I taught myself to play guitar.  Some friends and I had a country band, and we played local spots for a while.
	In my early twenties, I bought a 4-track recorder and enjoyed playing and recording songs that I liked from the Eagles, Jim Croce, Lobo, David Gates and Bread, Dan Fogelberg, etc.  I sent the recordings to my Grandfather, who had a band when he was young and performed all over upstate Pennsylvania and New York.  One day he asked me why I didn’t write my own songs.  The thought had never occurred to me, but once I’d considered it, it sounded like a great idea, and I told him that I bet I could do it.  
	After the first hundred songs or so, I called a few record companies to let them know that there was a new talent ready to take over the songwriting world, and they suggested I join NSAI first to help me hone my craft.  So I did.  In the mean time, I was sending quite a few of my songs to Washington to be copyrighted.
	A Publisher/Writer named Donn Hecht (most famous for co-writing Patsy Cline’s “Walkin’ After Midnight”) had someone working for him in Washington that noticed the number of songs I was copywriting.  Donn contacted me and asked me to send him some material. I did. He became my publisher, mentor and friend until his death in October 2002. He taught me more about songwriting and the business than anyone I’ve ever met.
	In the Spring of 2000, I wrote a song called “The South’ll Rise Again” and sent it to the nationally syndicated “The John Boy and Billy Big Show” as a gift, never imagining they’d ever do anything with it.  They were impressed enough to play it on the air, and it has been on their “Best Of” shows ever since.
	After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, I wrote a song called “Give’m Hell U.S.A.”  and  sent it to President George Bush and some of his staff.  Both President Bush and his Chief of Staff, Andrew Card, responded with really nice thank you notes. 
	I’m also a member of the local and National GTO clubs, own a 1970 Judge, and have written several “hot rod” songs that get regular play at many car shows and cruise-ins.
           My wife Kathy and I lived and worked in Nashville for a year and met many wonderful artists and songwriters who inspired and encouraged me.
	As the successful songwriter, friend and mentor, Jerry Vandiver says, “We write, because we have to”. The music needs to come out so we do what we love, and let it flow.

Snowman (s)

J. Michael Tracy

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