Copyright 1994 Pine Barrens Music (BMI) Awake arise all you who slumber Daylight is driving the stars from the sky Every creature on earth one song is lifting F...

I remember well when I was but a child of tender years The day that I discovered the catalog from Sears The people in the pictures they made me stop and stare W...

I have no time for heedless hurry I have no time for the hustler's bluff I have no time for restless worry I have all the time in the world for love I have no ...

Annie's up at seven on a work day Brewing up a cup of peppermint tea Gathering her papers and lesson plans She grabs her keys Teaching arithmetic and Africa Geo...

Well mister I just overheard you talking through your drink How the Russians lie like rugs how they've pushed us to the brink Now sit right here beside me I've ...

She was riding on the airline leafing through their magazine They said, "We'll fly you to the homeland that you have never seen" Smiling tourists in the picture...

The baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky She feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies Some sleep beneath the rubble, some ...

I guess it must say something That I was the last to know I never saw the signals flashing danger Falling out of love with me Was hard on you I know To wake up ...

All my life Working at the factory The pay looked mighty good to me When my body was my own Doctor won't look me in the eye My youngest child asks why I won't e...

And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws The Fuhrer they say grows impatient "How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free After three years of kind...

The boy rolls the hoop past the barricade Pushing it fast with a stick that he made from a coathanger The hoop is a wheel of rusted steel from a junkyard bicycl...

You hear so many rumors sometimes you get confused But I read it in Time Magazine and I heard it on the news We'll see dramatic changes in the lifestyle we enjo...

I was born in the city hospital Torn from darkness into the light First man I saw was the first to hit me First woman I saw said hush don't cry I played with g...

We have cleared off the table, the leftovers saved, Washed the dishes and put them away I have told you a story and tucked you in tight At the end of your knock...

In the stillness of the alley waits a man with an open blade And he hurts the woman badly and within her plants his seed She can't shake the dirt and horror as ...

I remember the man Rising early in the morning Smelling of starch and aftershave Sometimes I would shave beside him With a plastic razor and a cardboard blade A...

High school daydreams come easy and free When you're a working woman whatcha gonna be? A senator, a surgeon, aim for the heights But the guidance office says lo...

I wake up early in the cool of the morning Magenta and purple over Casco Bay Sleepless with yearning reason returning I send you this song like a summer bouquet...

Ooh I can't get out of bed Let's stay at home instead I just want to play with you all day Good loving gives me a thrill But it don't pay the bills Somehow true...

When gravity's dragging you down Look up So you see yourself stalking the city Staring straight down at your feet You notice the scuff on your shoeshine You av...

My grandmother was born in 1900 On a farm in New South Wales She wed a dairyman Who liked to raise a pint of ale The first child came when she was twenty Five m...

By the light of the Tennessee moon From the bilious bubbles of a black lagoon They make a hound dog howl a SWAT team swoon Hot frogs on the loose They've multi...

Brick and wood, mortar and plane Labor's love, a little faith You can see the structure taking form Ancient tools, a new design Taking care, taking time We've s...

The echoes of childhood whisper violence Cold wind beating out of the past Rage in your throat, muffled silence Hold on, I will stand fast In the darkness your ...

If I were a moose and you were a cow Would you love me anyhow? Would you introduce me to your folks Would you tell your friends "No moose jokes!" If I were a mo...

If I were taken now I would remember the light in your hair The darkness at the center of your eye If I were taken now I would remember the small of your back T...

In the emerald cathedral In the valley of clouds In the span of the branches Two eyes keep the watch Where the hummingbird dances And the snake hesitates With t...

I pull out the choke, pump hard on the gas Oh, this wheezin' old bus is complaining The Dungeness winter is blowing its last It's cold, but for once it's not ra...

In nineteen thirty-who at a zoo in Los Angeles a polar bear named Larry performed for the crowd, they'd cheer aloud He'd go slipping and sliding, jumping and di...

The neighbor up the road brought the message Joe and May never had a phone Five children grown and gone to college Now they lived out on Pewaukee Lake alone And...

I'm an old woman typing Old as the year, seventy-eight Hear what I say I was born in Laurel, Mississippi, I live in North Carolina today With my grandson James ...

The times were lean, your eyes were bold And we fell right in together like beggars on the road And as the months turn into years with the passing of each day I...

There's a light in the hall There's a crack in the doorway lets it into my room Tells me everything tells me everything I curl up in a ball Try to slide in the ...

The times were lean, your eyes were bold And we fell right in together like beggars on the road And as the months turn into years with the passing of each day I...

I lost that pretty little gal of mine to Title Nine I found her in the stands but I lost her at the finish line She was so soft and sweet But now I find I can't...

CHORUS: It's been a long hard time It's gonna be a long steep clim But no one's gonna change our minds 'Bout what we gotta do And when the road gets rough Every...

I touch your hand It's not my hand you feel It's the touch of another man It's the touch of a dangerous time It's the blow that leaves no trace It's the face of...

I have seen you in the morning diving into icy blue I have seen you rise and shiver till the sun has come to you You have seen me swimming naked where the ripti...

The market place was bustlying in the morning When the army and the ORDEN made their strike Like a farmer killing chickens for the market They cut down every li...

The peace dragon sleeps in a cave in a cliff on a crystal sea It wakes when sunlight slips inside with a fine good morning breeze Then it snaps it's tail and cr...

CHORUS: Peace is the bread we break Love is the river rolling Life is a chance we take When we make this earth our home Gonna make this earth our home Feel the ...

CHORUS: People can we all get along Can we all get along People you know we're all stuck here for a while Let's try to work it out People I just want to say you...

Call us America's sweethearts -- We found a place in Roxbury Where we can meet the mortgage, go to church on Sunday I teach communion class and David leads the ...

Five convicts broke free from the Braden prison yard Five men armed and dangerous, five hearts stony hard They ran down to the bottom where the Hatchie runs bla...

Too many words too many sounds Too many attractions turn me around Too many miles in a chrome cocoon I never get anywhere I can't see the moon Too many commerc...

Little girl in Mary Janes You walked a fine line Party braids and pinafores Thank you for the very nice time They didn't ask what you were thinking They didn't ...

The world has gone crazy, the country's a mess You open your eyes and you just get depressed If you take what they give you, they'll keep all the rest Stand up ...

I went for a jog in the city air I met a woman in a wheelchair I said "I'm sorry to see you're handicapped" She says "What makes you think a thing like that?" A...

I remember her when she was shining bright Deep in her dark eyes there shone a dancing light She always used to say that she was not the marrying kind Until she...

We pass through these rooms without speaking Where the light throws a pattern of lace You say you don't know if you are leaving But there's no shadow of doubt u...

From the land of shooting waters to the peaks of the Coeur d'Alene Thimbleberries in the forest, elk grazing on the plain The People of the Coyote made their ca...

In the hills of Ayalon above the broken earth Two boys shout and play with a ball on a field of shrub and dirt Divided sons of Abraham exhausted embrace Prince ...

Dan Murrow is a mighty friendly man He's big and round like a bear He hugs his friends and his friends hug him Anytime, anywhere His patients would come for the...

CHORUS: I want a hug when we say hello I want a hug when it's time to go I want a hug 'cause I want you to konw I'm awfully fond of you I want a hug--what a won...

Northfield Minnesota frost upon the plow The barley and the soybeans are at the feed lot now Leaves as dry as paper crumble neath my tread Colors of October lik...

From the halls of Montezuma To the shores of Tripoli I have fought my country's battles I have faced every enemy I ain't scared of no Iraqi missiles I ain't sca...

We met in the quiet of the meadow We rambled hand in hand through the glade We lay entwined on a pallet Of clover and columbine made But now the forest fills wi...

Sometimes people ask what is it like This love that's holding me, unfolding me Sometimes people ask what's the difference That we see in your days It's not roma...

Kids in the schoolyard, cows in the field In a Pennsylvania town it's another day But at Three Mile Island something was wrong In the power plant not two miles ...

CHORUS: Too many people having too many babies Got to love them babies but there's Too many peopple having too many babies Got to love them babies but it's out ...

Lately you been traveling more than you are here As your dreams describe a circle growing year by year The postcard you send from Vancouver or South Bend Recall...