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When I Was A Little Kid
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When I Was A Little Kid (Buddy Mondlock)
When I was a little kid
I’d climb up on the roof
I’d lay there on my back
And look up at the stars ‘cause they were proof
That the world was full of mystery
God and space and time
And all of it was mine
At least for a little while
Up there by myself
At the bottom of a bubble
As big as the universe itself
That came to rest
Right where I lay
At the end of every day
When I was a little kid
But then the bubble popped
And those kinda thoughts got dropped
They rolled right off that roof and never stopped
Until they hit the ground
Twenty one years down
Never even made a sound
When I was a little kid
I’d balance on this fence
School shoes on sharp pickets
‘Cause kids have more daring do than sense
And that’s well known
At least by me
On my way home
From school in the afternoon
I’d take the secret way
Back yards and bushes
Like running through a maze
And half way was that fence
Looking like nine feet tall
One day I just did it
All the way across and didn’t fall
When I was a little kid
But that fence got knocked down
When the bulldozer broke ground
For the shopping mall that took a piece of my town
No more secret ways
Just another parking space
No way to even find that place
(Instrumental Break)
But here I am again
With a few of my old friends
With a couple little kids of their own
And those kids have eyes
As big as summer skies
And I bet they know the secret way home
When I was a little kid
I’d climb up on the roof
I’d lay there on my back
And look up at the stars ‘cause they were proof
That the world was full of mystery
God and space and time
And all of it was mine
When I was a little kid
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The Edge of the World
04:04
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The Skin
04:15
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Mud
04:07
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Mud (Guy Clark/Buddy Mondlock)
Down by the creek where the water goes slow
The Green Backed Heron and the Moccasin know
All things come to him that waits
Yet he is lost who hesitates
(Life and death dancing around in the mud)
The light comes down through the limbs and the leaves
And dapples the water between the reeds
The air tastes green the bank gets soft
Right about then your shoes come off
(You got to get it between your toes, the mud)
Mud pie, mud in your eye
Mud on a snake bite don’t you die
You take a little rain, take a little dirt
You make a little mud - get it on your shirt
Earth and water make a mighty fine mix
Some say that was God’s best trick
He went down to the creek to play
Made girls and boys and laughed all day
(Some say we all just crawled out of the mud)
Mud pie, mud in your eye
Mud on a snake bite don’t you die
You take a little rain, take a little dirt
You make a little mud - get it on your shirt
When I die please bury me
Down by this old muddy creek
Let the crawfish have their way
It’s mud to mud and that’s okay
(We’re all just slogging through the mud)
Mud pie, mud in your eye
Mud on a snake bite don’t you die
You take a little rain, take a little dirt
You make a little mud
Wipe it on your shirt
© 2002 by EMI April Music, Inc./Major Bob Music/Laughing Guy Music
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Fence In A Storm
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Fence In A Storm (Buddy Mondlock)
Fence post standing there weather worn
Barbed wire up against a summer storm
The wind comes up
The sky blows around
The fence stands still
While the rain comes down
Everything happens at the very same time
But people want to make the world wait in line
This comes first
That not yet
But it rains when it rains
And the world gets wet
CHORUS
I don’t know
Why everything don’t go slower
I can’t see
But somehow I’m supposed to show her
She’s so tired and it makes her sad
Walking ‘round all the time feeling bad
She had a plan
She had it down
But the world keeps knocking
That girl around
She knows money can’t buy you love
But love can’t always keep you’re head above
Waterfalls
Come crashing down
And the girl in the barrel
Hears that roaring sound
(CHORUS)
Fence post never seems to have a care
Wonder how long that fence been there
Three tornados and a hurricane
The wind blows through
And that fence remains
(CHORUS 2X)
©2007 by Major Bob Music, Inc./Laughing Guy Music (ASCAP)
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How It Goes
04:36
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The Birds
02:47
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The Birds (Buddy Mondlock)
The birds move with grace and ease
Dodge wires and branches with no fear
Then hover high above the trees
The masters of the atmosphere
Every feather in it’s place
Form and function balancing
Strong as steel and fine as lace
To carve the air with a flashing wing
Some wear their colors on their sleeves
Yellow, red and indigo
Some are hiding in the leaves
They’d rather be invisible
The birds move with grace and ease...
I love to watch them work the room
Cool and full of confidence
How I wish I could sing that tune
But I observe from a distance
The birds move with grace and ease
Dodge wires and branches with no fear
Then hover high above the trees
The masters of the atmosphere
©2007 by Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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Nobody Knows Nothing
03:56
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Nobody Knows Nothing (Jim Tullio/Buddy Mondlock)
CHORUS
Nobody knows nothing
Nobody figured it out
Nobody knows nothing
Nobody knows what it’s all about
Everything you see around here’s for sale
Everyones’s telling you the check’s in the mail
Preacher, teacher and president
Is what they say really what they meant?
You hope it is ‘cause it’s already spent
It’s gone
(CHORUS)
God made the world in seven days
Big bang came along and blew it all away
Newton, Einstein and Paul Dirac
The quantum Farmer’s Almanac
You think it’s real then it fades to black
Then it’s gone
Long, long gone
It’s gone
Long, long gone
(CHORUS)
All you got when you get here is DNA
All you leave behind is what you do and say
In between it’s crazy eights
When to jump and when to wait
It all comes down to love and faith
Then it’s gone
Long, long gone
It’s gone
Long, long gone
Nobody knows nothing...
©2007 by Tools Music (BMI)/Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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Big Fish, Shallow Water
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Big Fish, Shallow Water (Buddy Mondlock)
It’s flat out here and telephone poles grow
All along the road to Refugio
Copano Bay turns brown and grey
When a norther blows in
To the sun brown family fishing in the shallows
I’m just wind and the sound of wheels
That don’t slow down, going ‘round and ‘round
And it never ends
CHORUS
Try to pull a big fish
Out of shallow water
Somewhere
Under there
Past the twilight towns through the white strip windshield
Billboards burn in the winter wheat fields
Stealing fire from electrical wires
That dim the stars
Wash me down ‘til I’m bathed in the blue light
Television glow of a motel midnight
Sight unseen you can buy your dreams
With a credit card
(CHORUS)
In the dishwater dawn it’s NBC
And an IED and a casualty count
Mountain of youth
The president’s truth in a body bag
Meanwhile there’s a family dreaming on their new home
Fishing by the road with everything they own
In an Olds 88 with Mexican plates
And an American flag
(CHORUS)
©2007 by Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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Understudies
03:56
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11. |
Hour By Hour
03:31
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12. |
Baby Cries
03:02
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I Count You My Friend
03:57
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I Count You My Friend (Buddy Mondlock)
CHORUS I count you my friend
Nothing complicated about it
I count you my friend
Will this change?
I doubt it
I guess I knew you all along
Even though it ain’t been long since we met
But something tells me I’m not wrong
Friends like you I don’t forget
And have you noticed how the light has changed
A little brighter every day now it seems
I tell you now that’s nothing strange
It looks that way when it’s shining off dreams
(CHORUS)
When the going gets a little rough
And they’re lining up to box our ears
We won’t even give ‘em our best stuff
We’ll send ‘em back in cry baby tears
And when the beauty of this world won’t sleep
And it tries to wake us up and make us cry
We won’t be afraid to laugh and weep
We’ll be safe in each other’s eyes
(CHORUS 2X)
©2007 by Major Bob Music, Inc./Laughing Guy Music (ASCAP)
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Buddy Mondlock Nashville, Tennessee
Buddy Mondlock writes songs. He does it so well that some great songwriters have recorded his songs on their own albums. Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith, and Janis Ian, to name just a few. You might’ve heard his song “The Kid” (recorded by David Wilcox, Peter, Paul and Mary and Cry, Cry, Cry) and maybe even sung it yourself around a campfire. He draws you into his world. ... more
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