BRIGHTER DAYS

COUNTRY GHETTO

I see the look in your eyes I know I'm simple and plain

A  country boy can't survive too many ways in your game

So  you can say what you will about your helping hand

I know I'll never be more than just your dumb white trash

Life in a country ghetto

Love  touches us all yes we're black and we're white

Out  here in the cut still living side by side

So never mind what you've seen and just forget what you've heard

Another  ignorant redneck just some Hollywood words

Life in a country ghetto

No I'm not tame

The only voice that speaks for me speaks from this clay

Little  boy you ain't never take a dime from the man

Starve to death before you live by a government handout

They call us poverty

Life in a country ghetto

A WOMAN

In the morning she'll show you how much she loves you ⁄

And when the night comes you need to show her too ⁄

You got to touch her in that way don't you ever stop loving her ⁄

And that's how a woman wants to be loved by her man ⁄ ⁄

Now any old fool can stay through the good times ⁄

And any old fool can run out on her ⁄

So you got to buckle up and face that stormy weather together ⁄

And that's how a woman wants to be loved by her man ⁄ ⁄

There's a place Lord there's a place where a man can't go ⁄

She said, "you better not put your hands on me ⁄

Unless you, unless you're ready to love me" ⁄

And that's how a woman wants to be loved by her man ⁄

And that's how a woman got to be loved by her man

BRIGHTER DAYS

Don't stop even for the right thing

Does it matter what I say?

My whole world was by that river

Flowing off to meet the sea each day

I don't want to move away

You look at me and you say "what's wrong boy?"

What else do you want me to say?

I don't want to leave tomorrow

Been and gone but I belong here now

Your big world can wait another day

Brighter days where did they go?

I am hopeful for where I'm going

But I belong in The South

That was where I was born a poor boy

Living life like there's no end in sight

Even so I've done without

Brighter days where did they go?

Boy, you're about to hit the bottom

I feel alone, I feel I'm moving there

To a land you never saw and I see you're about to hit the bottom

Lord help me move away to a land you never saw

And I've seen

Brighter days where did they go?

AIR

This is the world in which we live

This is all take and no give

Every comfort for you, you, you

Only gonna do you blind

A whole lotta people can't see that high

This is the house that which we built

This is the place where we found guilt

Break a bad habit let it go

It's harder still you know

Want a little peace of mind?

Then grab the lowest branch

And start to climb

We've been walking on air y'all

We've been walking on air

The invitation's in

If it beats all git out then do it again

Less than pleasant then put it to shame

Only gonna do you blind

A whole lotta folks can't see that high

We've been walking on air y'all

We've been walking on air

WAR

My shell is hard, my hooks like steel

My wings are fire and you cannot break my will

All these years you've tried to kill me

Boy you ain't made a dent

See I'm a Georgia warhorse and I ain't easy to kill

A bigger man than you he stepped on me

He put me under shoe just to see

What it'd do to me but I always roll out alive

See I'm a Georgia warhorse and I was built to survive

You gonna get more than you bargained for tonight

Cause I was born with a smile and a heart of stone

See I'm a Georgia warhorse and I ain't easy to kill

Well I'd like to take, this time to say

Its been a pleasure but I must be on my way

Cause man ain't built any jail, lord he can keep me in

See I'm a Georgia warhorse and I ain't easy to kill

LOCHLOOSA

Homesick but it's alright

Lochloosa is on my mind

She's on my mind

Homesick but it's alright

Lochloosa is on my mind

She's on my mind

I swear it's ten thousand degrees in the shade

Lord have mercy knows

How much I love it

Every mosquito, every rattlesnake

Every cane break, everything (Oh, yeah, yeah)

Every alligator every black water swamp

Every freshwater spring, everything (Mm, mm)

All we need is one more damn developer

Tearin' her heart out (Oh, yeah, yeah)

All we need is one more Mickey Mouse

Another golf course

Another country club

Another gated community

Lord, I need her

Lord, I need her (Oh, yeah)

And she's gone away

If my grandfather could, lord, see her now

He'd lay down and die, lord yeah

Lord, he'd lay down and die

'Cause every minute, every second, every hour

Lord, every day, she's goin' away

Lord, she's goin' away

I'm homesick but it's alright

Lochloosa is on my mind, my mind, my mind

She's on my mind

Homesick but it's alright

Lochloosa is on my mind, my mind, my mind

She's on my mind

I'm homesick but it's alright

Lochloosa she's on my mind, my mind, my mind

She's on my mind

Homesick but it's alright

Lochloosa she's on my mind, my mind, my mind (Mm)

DIRTFLOORCRACKER

Looking for something to prove

Looking for something to say

We eat our grits and

We don't mind sweet in our tea

All they've ever known their TV taught them

Mercy for the wise, all they've ever known

Call me dirtfloorcracka

But them words just feel me with pride
You seem so pleasant

You've got something to say

But them words you speak deep down

Loving to irritate, we're not that fooled by ya
This hard head ya see

You keep your money coming

We'll feed ya cheap cornbread and

Them grits keep flowing baby

Psy-collard greens and my mama said

"Hey boy listen to what they mean"

All they've ever known their TV taught them

Mercy for the wise, all they've ever known

Call me dirtfloorcracka

But them words just feel me with pride

We got the soul but you

Don't want the feeling, ain't right

We go them moves but you

Decide to pull it tight, you think you got but it

It's like the road you say you about to move it 40

We got the record playing

All they've ever known their TV taught them

Mercy for the wise, all they've ever known

Call me dirtfloorcracka

But them words just feel me with pride

ORANGE BLOSSOMS

Well I snuck to her window to leave her a note

Will you come meet me at the back of the grove?

All the trees were in bloom that sweet smell in the air

We were trebling together we were young we were scared

True love is hard to find

I can smell those orange blossoms

I can see her standing here

When I smell those orange blossoms then I'm there

We swam in the lake we watched fire flies by night

She was my princess and I was her knight

But her daddy didn't like me He ain't like how I look

He said leave that boy be and that's all that it took

True love is hard to find

I can smell those orange blossoms

I can see her standing here

When I smell those orange blossoms

Then I'm there

But I remember her vow How she wouldn't forget me

And all these years later I can't even remember her name

True love is hard to find

I can smell those orange blossoms

I can see her standing here

When I smell those orange blossoms

Then I'm there

Where did she go?

HO CAKE

My Granny makes the best cracklin' ho cake

It tastes so good I can't wait to dip my plate

She's cookin' ham hocks in some white-acre peas

She's cookin' turnip greens and macaroni and cheese

Get on out my way I got to ease up to that pot

I like my cornbread while it's still piping hot

I love this food Lord, I can't get enough

Stick ya hands near my plate, you'll draw back a nub

I 'member it happened back in 1978

Daddy caught me tryin' to steal a pork chop off his plate

He snatched it back and I gave him a little sass

He quick whupped off the belt 'n started whuppin' on my ass

I learned a lesson 'bout what this food can do

It can talk yo ass in to turning black and blue

So all you kids keep yo' hands to yo' on supper

'Coz if you let that food do the talkin' yo' tail might suffer

I love smoke mullet, hush puppies and grits

I love them catfish and I love them popcorn shrimp

I love fried chicken and I love them collard greens

I love them black eye peas and them lima beans

I love that ox-tail soup with a little rice

I love them candied yams and sweet potato pies

I love it all Lord, I just got to holler

Tastes so dad, blame good I can't even swallow

THE SWEETEST THING

Down by the sea staring at the sunset

All those colors of light like a flame through the heart oh

But I never saw a sunset woman till I met you yeah

The sweetest thing

The sweetest thing

You're the sweetest thing

The sweetest thing

Down by the sea starring on the heavens oh oh yea yea

All those stars in the sky those beacons of light yea yea

But I never even noticed them until I met you whoa that why I say babe

You're the sweetest thing

The sweetest thing

You're the sweetest thing

The sweetest thing yeah

You're the sweetest thing

The sweetest thing yeah

You're the sweetest thing

The sweetest thing

Tell what is this lament? I can't tell you

I've been a dead man running, all of my life

And I never felt a thing woman till I met you

The sweetest thing

The sweetest thing

Girl I want you to know

You're the sweetest thing yeah

Girl you're the sweetest thing

The sweetest thing

Yeah, you're the sweetest thing yeah

The sweetest thing

Want you to know that

You're the sweetest thing

You're the sweetest thing

The sweetest thing

You're the sweetest thing

The sweetest thing

THE SUN IS SHINING DOWN

"How many more days can you hold out

How much longer can you wait?" she asked

There was a time I thought I, I could answer

But my tongue gets tied as my thoughts drift away

Glory, Glory - Hallelujah

The sun is shining, shining down

Glory, Glory - Hallelujah

I'm alive and I'm feeling, feeling fine

All those simple thoughts all those peaceful dreams

Share the space with a hard worked, hard worked day

But it's the little things, the little things not expectation

That make life worth living, worth living

Glory, Glory - Hallelujah

The sun is shining, shining down

Glory, Glory - Hallelujah

I'm alive, and the world Lord, world is fine

Glory, Glory - Hallelujah

The sun is shining, shining down

Glory, Glory - Hallelujah

I'm alive and I'm feeling Lord, feeling, feeling, feeling fine

ON FIRE

Well she's on the dance floor at your local jook

Trying to sweat a bunch of fools she done already took

But when that gal gets down you can't help but stare

Cause that frames lit and smoking like a signal flare

She's on fire

She's on fire

She's on fire

She's on fire

We tried to look away we all tried to be cool

But she had an ass as thick as an army mule's

She asked out for a drink just a batting those eyes

We all was reaching for our wallets man she's a light

She's on fire

She's on fire

She's on fire

She's on fire

With a smooth proposition she's got you in hand

I hear you say you don't care boy are you a man

She's on fire

She's on fire

She's on fire

She's on fire

HIDE & SEEK

Devil behind you, run run away

But you got to turn and fight, to live another day

Whisper in the saw grass, murmur in the pines

Lift your hands up and away, lift them off your eyes

Playing hide and seek, but my eyes are wide open

Playing hide and seek, but my eyes are wide open
A voice says you're right, another says you're wrong

Well who speaks and who listens the weak or the strong

Can you feel the fear, deep within the mind

There's no loss or gain in soul

Nothing real can ever die or feel it

Playing hide and seek, but my eyes are wide open

Playing hide and seek, but my eyes are wide open

Standing by the VJ, I can hear them sing

That the truth it must be lived

And to wake up from the dream of madness

Playing hide and seek, but my eyes are wide open

Playing hide and seek, but my eyes are wide open

Playing hide and seek, but our eyes are wide open

Playing hide and seek, but our eyes are wide open

Playing hide and seek, but our eyes are wide open yeah

SLOW, HOT & SWEATY

Its getting too fast now, a little too brash now

Got to slow down baby, one thing at a time

Make a little friction, while we get the slick on

Breathing nice and heavy, you're drawing me out

Slow hot and sweaty, turn it on

Slow hot and sweaty, ah baby let go

Slow hot and sweaty, slip it and slide

Slow hot and sweaty, can you feel it deep inside

Your skin is shining, can you feel me pining

For that little somethin', somethin', you always do

You sweet as a mango and steamy like the Congo

Woman I can't hold on much longer, hold on much longer
Slow hot and sweaty, turn it on

Slow hot and sweaty, ah baby let go

Slow hot and sweaty, slip it and slide

Slow hot and sweaty, can you feel it deep inside

Slow hot and sweaty, turn it on

Slow hot and sweaty, ah sugar let go

Slow hot and sweaty, slip it and slide

Slow hot and sweaty, can you feel it deep inside

Slow hot and sweaty, turn it on

Slow hot and sweaty, ah woman let go

Slow hot and sweaty, slip it and slide

Slow hot and sweaty, can you feel it deep inside uh

Break it on down now

KING HUMMINGBIRD

A crown of red, king hummingbird

There upon your perch, say the word

And I'll fall down on my knees and beg

For the life I took from you my king

Oh this empty thing I've done

Everywhere I go, I feel you there

Do you even know me?

Do you even care?

The deepest green, and rainbow blue

As delicate and light, as morning dew

Beating wings they whisper, a baby's breath

Filling me with wonder, for all that is

But I took careful aim and I made no sound

For no reason I can think of now

Oh this empty thing I've done

Everywhere I go, I feel you there