In The Dead of Winter

In The Dead of Winter

Came a time

When we hankered so

For love sublime

So we got ourselves down 

Near the sea

To a club they called

The Fox Lady.....

(Intro)  Am  Bb6  C  D7  Am  Bb6  C  E7

Am7  C  Dm  Am   Am7  C  Dm  Am

Bbmaj7  C6  Em7  Am  Bbmaj7  C6  D7  E7-9  E7

Am  C  Dm  Am

(Break)

D7  G  E7  C  (or, Am)  D7  G  B  Fmaj7-9

F  G  Em  C  D7  E7  B  Fmaj7-9

Am  Bb6  C  D7  Am  Bb6  C  E7

Am7  C  Dm  Am   Am7  C  Dm  Am

Bbmaj7  C6  Em7  Am  Bbmaj7  C6  D7  E7-9  E7

Am  C  Dm  Am

Silent Snow

In late winter comes a silent snow

And it changes everything we know

Cos now no longer 

Must I be alone....


Am  F  G  Am  D9  E7

Am  F G  Dm4  Bb  Em Am

(Break)
C  C  G  G  Bb  Bb  F  C  E7

Am  F  G  Am  D9  E7

Am  F G  Dm4  Bb  Em Am

Winter in Spring

Winter in Springtime

Means wondering why

They're no birds in the trees

There's no sun in the sky

Feels just like my heart

On your day of goodbye

(F)  Am C  Em  Am  Bm6  Dm/f  Em   G  C   Bb2-4  E7  Am

(Break 1) Am7   G   Dm   Em  F  Am
             
                Am7   G   Dm   Em  F  Am

(Break 2) Dm  F  Am  C  Em  E7

(Break 3) G2-7-9   F4-9  D4  C(G)  Em  E7

                 G2-7-9  F4-9  D4  C(G)  Em  E7

(F)  Am C  Em  Am  Bm6  Dm/f  Em   G  c  Bb2-4  E7

Coda (slowing) Am  Fm7  E2-7  Am9

A: Oh I roux this day

Q: What'd you exclaim when you burned your bechamel?

A: Samuel Peckinpaugh

Q: What’d you name your hybrid cat/bird pet?

A: The Inanity Defense

Q: How'd the Dummy get off?

A: Game of Thrones

Q: What's the new name for toilet hockey?

A: Right to Bare Arms

Q: What's the sleeveless dress amendment?

Just tunes this time

California Chopper
(E47)  Am  D7  Cmaj7  Bmaj7  Bbmaj7  Am

(Break)  D7  Am  D7  Bb C   E7

(Break 2) 


Eyeball Rock
Am  E7  F9  Dm  Am  repeat

Dm  G6  C  F  Bb  C  F

Dm  G6  C  Bb  F  G  Am

Am  E7  F9  G9  Am9 Am 

College Romance

Summernight

Such Is Life

Solstice

The End (Really)

Seashore

Winters Onset

Airplane Boogie

Hair Of Black
C  Em  F  Ab  C

C  Em  F  Bb  G

Em  Am  Dm7  G6 

C   E7   F   Bb  C  F  D7  F  G  C

Break : Dm  F9  Em  G  Am  Bb  F  G  G+

C  Em  F  Ab  C

C  Em  F  Bb  G

Em  Am  Dm7  G6 

C   E7   F   Bb  C  F  D7  F  G  C

C

Steam Loco
(B7) Em  B  G  C6  Am2  D6  Em  repeat

Break1:  Em  G   C  Dm  Am  Am Bm7 
                
               G  C  Am  Em  F9  C  Bm  D

(B7) Em  B  G  C6  Am2  D6  Em  repeat

Break2:   D  C#m  E7  B  Ab  Bb  C  D
                 
                 D  A  C  G  Em  Fm  Bb  D

[Alt break:   D  A (inv)  Ab  Eb  B  Cmaj7  A7  D  D+
                     
                     D  A  C  G  Em  Fm  Bb  D  ]

(B7) Em  B  G  C6  Am2  D6  E (not minor)

Cap'n Jo
(Intro: G9  G9  G9)  

G9  G9  C9  G9  G9  C9

Bm7  Em7  A9  C

A9  C9  D  G

Break1: D  Bm7   C  Am  G  Bm7  F  D7

G9  G9  C9  G9  G9  C9  

Bm7  Em7  A9  C 

A9  C9  D  G                    

Dream House

LYRICS

Cap'n Jo  I

Cap'n Jo  II

Summernight Jo

Why
C   Bm7  Am9  G9  Bbmaj7-9  F6  Dm7  G  

C   Bm7  Am9  G9  Bbmaj7-9  F6  Dm7  G  C

Break: Eb  Fm7  Ab9  Bb  Cm  Dm  F7  G

C   Bm7  Am9  G9  Bbmaj7-9  F6  Dm7  G  C

In from the Aether (instrumental)

Dm9    Dm    Dm9       D    C6    G    Bb7    Dm

C6   G    Am    Bb    Cmaj7    Dm    (end)

BREAK1
F6    C   F6     C   Bb7   F   Bb7     A7-9 (back to start)

BREAK2
Em   Bb    F9    G7     Bbmaj7    Eb    A   A

Sunshine Moonshine

(Am)         Cmaj7                            Cmaj7
You're my sunshine, brings me way more than good luck
                  Fmaj7                                    G
You're the moonshine, runs my hemi pick up truck
             Bb          F                          C
And the way you sashay, blows me away

(Dm)         Fmaj7                                          Bb
You're that hot stock whose price rockets to the moon
Eb                Ab       C#         C                  G
You're a drydock for a ship wrecked by monsoon
             Bb          F                          C
And the away you make eyes wins my prize

You're a stranger, do  I dare to say hello
Flirt with danger, but of course that's my M.O.
And your floral scent is true heaven-sent

Taking pictures of you with my camera mind
Writing scriptures to an angel hard to find
Don't care if you can cook, just hold that look

BREAK1
(Dm)  Fmaj7   Bb   C   Eb  Ab  C#   G    Cmaj7  

BREAK2
Eb   Ab   Bb   C   Am   Em   F  G   Cmaj7


May 2012

A: Bland Rover

Q; What do you call a boring Jeep?

A: PETA bread

Q: What kind of carb do animal lovers prefer?

A: Deflation

Q: What are the European Central Bank and Tom Brady worrying about?

Top ten reasons to think about wintering in Florida

10. You fell in lust with your quartz heater

9. There’s more road salt on your truck than the mountain at the DPW shed

8. With a snowy cap and numb blue hands, you’ve been mistaken for a Smurf

7. You have pet names for each of your snow shovels

6. You catch pneumonia on Nantucket, nightly

5. Your electric heat bill exceeds the National Debt

4. Your outbreak of goose pimples is not from excitement

3. Snow plows have turned your front yard into a topsoil pit mine

2. The Winter Wonderland song sounds a funeral dirge

and...

1. You have nightmares involving Frosty The Snowman

In my house

C9                 C9
In my house I sit here dreaming
Bb9                        F
Sometimes waiting, always scheming
C9                  Bb9
For a rare and wondrous meeting
F                    G
With the one I love

C9                 C9
She calls long distance on the phone
Bb9                           F
From distant mountain parts unknown
C9                  Bb9
But how her voice it hits right home
F                G        C
Like angels from above


Eb4            
On the roof I hear it raining 
C#4
Like inside my heart is paining
A
For she keeps me from refraining 
F                                  G
To call her back with love

How much longer can I bear
The way she makes me so adore
(So gorgeous to me she does appear)
Then runs away and leaves me here
With silence nothing more

But though it's August, wet and dreary
No longer I'm old and weary
For her love it does inspire me
To sunny heights to soar

I see her blonde hair shining brightly 
And her spirit dancing spritely 
Treading I hope oso lightly 
On my treasure trove

All my friends say I should leave her
That's she poison. Still I'll grieve her
She tells lies but I believe her
Now and ever more

She's gone on a cruise,  I wonder
What strange spirit made me send her
I now know it was her father
Smiling from above

In my house I sit here dreaming
Sometimes waiting, always scheming
For a rare and wondrous meeting
With the one I love

Instrumental Break one
Eb - Gm7-9  - Ab - Cm7 - Fm - Ab -  Bb - Gm - Gmaj
Instrumental Break two
Eb - Bb - Cm - F7 - Ab -  C# - F# - Gmaj

© 1992

SOFT BUT STRONG

(Am)      C9
Oh why must I live so much
Of my life when I am young

(F)      Am9
For already in my dreams
I see faces that are gone

(chorus)(Dm9)
But somehow I'll keep on smiling
           F9                     Bb
Do my best at fate beguiling
         C                      E7                          Am
For I know what separates most right from wrong
             Dm                       F                   C9
And rewards come to those who are soft but strong

They all watch my sunny face
And blue eyes glowing bright 

But inside I sometimes feel 
Shadows creeping in the night

(chorus repeats)

Now you've landed in my life
 Like a shiny metal plane 
That will fly me high above 
All my sorrow and my pain

(chorus repeats)

And I see your crazy eyes
But I do know there inside
Is a soul that loves me so
That will always be my guide

(chorus repeats)

In your mind I see you've built 
A crystal palace high 
But you've lived there all alone 
Until I came walking by

(chorus repeats)

© 1992

A few new mondegreens

1. Words fail me  misheard as worst family

2. Fitbit misheard as zip-it

A: Time to get out of Dodge

Q:  What'd you say right after you smashed your Viper into a tree?