Kelly Joe Phelps

Ginger dyed her hair red to it her name Burny pocked his arms with a pack of camel lights Long sleeves outdoors to keep the kids from crying And ginger climbed the high wire just to make them cheer. Trapeze float in a buttercup parade With clowns and

Drums are still playing I can see them marching close This he walks like a shadow and that he dances like a ghost The one that looks like jimmy lord he scares me the most River rat jimmy and Jehoshaphat Playing boyhood mumbly peg a six inch bowie bla

Hard time here and everywhere you go Times is harder than ever been before And the people are driftin' from door to door Can't find no heaven, I don't care where they go Hear me tell you people, just before I go These hard times will kill you just dr

I'm afraid I've gone the wrong way again, Walking away from Calvary and right back into sin, Them ol' demons, no, they don't like me at all, They love to beat my heart to hell, everytime I fall. Why do I choose to suffer when I can live with God? Lon

It's a ditch, okay, I have shoes and a blanket My head resting light on a stone Though it's hard it's still rounded with a pocket for Brains or what goes for in halls under roof tile We'll sing another blistering ballad for grandma Melody sweet till

There are some that blindly and happily plow While the tractor screams "Feed me some oil" The scraping of gears and the gnashing of teeth Fall softly on full ahead ears A frown may give away something right A smile can hide crooked affairs The s

katy - the boy who trapped the sun katy's down by the cellar door calls for me to go back down to the clover singing soft and low singing soft and low my little one's mother is holding him and crying she hears katy call my name and i can see her dyin

I just want to hear somebody else whine. If you've got tomorrow, I've got a blade. We can dig a hole into an old book. Keep our secrets there. I know of another place beneath some overgrown vine. I can cut them back and help you down. There I'll list

Well met, well met said an old true love Well met, well met said he I've just returned from the salt salt sea And it's all for the love of thee Come in, come in my old true love And have a seat with me It's been three fourths of a long long year Sinc

Bourbon soda over ice, in the basement shade Got it made, no one here, just the beer man's dog Howling at the moon heat gnawing on a bone Waiting for Marty to get home. Marty's in the bath house yanking out the gray Getting older ain't a party it's a

You can go out and destroy, What's already spent. You can blame on your hat, The faults in your head. The more you pass through my pores The worse it gets. At or in, What place did you think Your mind would fit? When did you realize That you couldn't