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Last Thing On Your Mind
05:19
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Last Thing On Your Mind © Chuck LeMonds 2021
Somewhere in Wisconsin
Standing under northern lights
It’s -26 below zero
Stars are shining so bright.
I am poor as a country church mouse
I see no way out of here
If someone had only told me
Where I’d be in 40 years.
Dreaming the dream of a young man
In the hot and humid summertime
You think it will never get cold again
It’s the last thing on your mind
It’s Friday night in Colfax
He’s 3 sheets to the wind
Trying so hard to get somewhere
But got no money for the fare.
Take your hat off
Take your boots off
Sit yourself right down
You have traveled far and wide
A boy from a Midwest town
Red Cedar River, Mississippi
Blue Danube delta songs
It’s a shame you couldn’t
Be here with us
But we missed you all along.
You’d have to be crazy
You’d have to be so blind
To leave this all behind you
Hoping that you’d find
A pot of gold at the end of a rainbow
The mystical garden of Eden
A holy man sitting under a tree
Who never tells you what he’s thinking.
I miss the skunk smell
You may laugh…….well
I miss the monarchs too
I miss the smell
Of summer nights
Along the river with you.
It’s a shame you couldn’t
Be here with us
But we missed you all along
We knew that you were,
Somewhere out there
Singing all your songs.
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What Is Freedom?
06:04
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What is F-r-e-e-d-o-m ? © Chuck LeMonds 2022
You make your choices
Each and every day
Your heart is your compass
Showing you the way
It’s the water that you drink
It’s been there for the taking
But when the well runs dry
You’re gonna feel your earth start shaking.
What is f-r-e-e-d-o-m to the hungry
What is f-r-e-e-d-o-m to the poor
What is f-r-e-e-d-o-m to the lonely
What is f-r-e-e-d-om
Will it open up the doors
Will it open up the doors
To all people.
Don’t wave no flags
Don’t march the troops
That will not help you now
With that which you pursue
If you really want it
If you really do
Better take a deep look inside
Get to know how you’ve been fooled. Chorus
Pockets full of sand
Hourglass in your hands
Reeper man knows when
There’s nothing left to lose
How much do you want?
How much can you handle?
It’s a well-known gamble to hope
Someone will set you free.
Chorus
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3. |
The Zen Grin
06:08
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The Zen Grin © Chuck LeMonds 2020
Don’t ever 2nd guess your will to stay alive,
Even when you can’t pay the bills and their piling up high.
One thing you can count on, and that’s for sure
If you don’t like the weather, it’s gonna change real soon.
Chorus:
Bow your head and thank your maker
For even in the hardest rains
The sun is always up there shining
Though you can’t see it through your pane.
It may break your heart, in a thousand little pieces now
Feels like you must dig your own grave
But it’s stillness and the unexpected
That brings the mystery close again.
That brings the mystery close again
Like a Dervish spinning in silence
Round and round and round you spin
And when you stop, you can start all over again.
Bridge:
Hard to know what the future holds,
But that’s always been so true
Always been so true
For me and for you
Hard to know what the future holds,
But I hope I’m holding you,
Always been so true
For me and for you.
Verse 2:
These days it seems like the, world is coming unglued
Can’t get there from here, even if you’re wanting to
I wouldn’t trade you in for a room full of gold
Cause that would make me, just about the biggest, fool in the world.
Chorus
That brings the mystery close again
Like standing in a forest in a pouring rain
Round and round and round you spin
And when you stop, you feel the Zen grin.
Bridge
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4. |
Take It All Away
07:29
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Take It All Away© Chuck LeMonds 2020
One thing at a time
Take it all away
Two things at a time
Take it all away
All things I have cherished
Take it all away
Can I live without it
Take it all away.
Never needed much sleep
Take it all away
Stayed up for the sunrise
Take it all away
Now you, go to sleep so early
Take it all away
No northern star at midnight
Take it all away.
Chorus
It’s a long long walk to the promised land
Looking for salvation every step of the way
I’ve loved you all these years, and though we’ve shed some tears
We’ve kept it on the sunny side. (3x)
Get a, hard on from your kisses
Take it all away
An animal that can’t be tamed
Take it all away
All night in some danky place
Take it all away
5 more songs til sun up
Take it all away.
Fame & fortune coming
Take it all away
Got a, Bengal tiger by the tail
Take it all away
Light house on the water
Take it all away
Stars are falling, make a wish
Take it all away.
Chorus
Climb a ladder to the stars
Take it all away
Just try harder, you can make it
Take it all away
All things I have cherished
Take it all away
Can I live without it
Take it all away.
Nothing left to prove
Take it all away
It’s good enough for you
Take it all away
Leave the fear behind
Take it all away
Surrounded by a sea of love
Take it all away.
Chorus
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Human Touch
04:17
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Human Touch © Jackson Brown, Leslie Mendelson
You can call it a decision
I say it's how we're made
There's no point in shouting from your island
Proclaiming only Jesus saves
There will always be suffering
And there will always be pain
But because of it there'll always be love
And love, we know, it will remain
Everybody gets lonely
Feel like it's all too much
Reaching out for some connections
Or maybe just their own reflection
Not everybody finds it
Not like the two of us
Sometimes all anybody needs
Is a human touch
Everybody wants a holiday
Everybody wants to feel the sun
Get outside and run around
Live like they're forever young
Everybody wants to be beautiful
And live life their own way
No one ever wants to let it go
No matter what they do or say
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6. |
See The One You Love
04:34
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See The One You Love Chuck LeMonds 2023
Did you see the one you love
looking back at you
passing on the street car
down line number 2.
Or sitting at the café
watermelon and red wine
she’s looking over his shoulder
sending you a smile.
Did you see the one you love
waking next to you
sitting at the table
watching what you do.
Did you see the one you love
standing close to you
leaning on your shoulder
whispering what to do
Did you see the one you love
See the one you love 3x
Pick a bouquet of wild flowers
wild and full of dangerous truths
gonna take em to the one I love
and the one I love is you.
There’s more pretty girls, then you could ever know
round every corner, high and low
you can’t close your eyes, and they won’t go away
that’s another story for a rainy day.
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Long Black Veil
05:30
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Long Black Veil by Danny Dill / Marijohn Wilkin
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed beneath the town hall light
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me
The judge said "son, what is your aliby?
If you were somewhere else, then you wont have to die."
I said not a word, though it meant my life,
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife.
Oh, she walks these hills in a long black veil.
She visits my grave when the night winds wail.
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me.
Oh, now the scaffold is high, eternity is near
She stood in the crowd and she'd not a tear
And sometimes at night when the cold winds blow
In a long black veil she cries over my bones.
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me.
Oh, she walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me.
Nobody knows. nobody knows, but me.
Nobody knows but me.
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All My Tears
03:59
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All My Tears © Julia Miller
When I die don't cry for me
In my fathers arms I'll be
The wounds this world left on my soul
Will all be healed and I'll be whole
Sun and moon will be replaced,
with the light of Jesus face
And I will not be ashamed
for my savior knows my name
It don't matter where you bury me
I'll be home and I'll be free
It don't matter ….where I lay
All my tears be washed away
Gold and silver blind the eye
Temporary reaches light
Come and eat from heavens store
Come and drink and thirst no more
So weep not for me my friend
when my time does end
For my life belongs to him
who will raise the dead again
It don't matter where you bury me
I'll be home and I'll be free
It don't matter anywhere I lay
All my tears be washed away
All my tears be washed away
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9. |
Side of the Road
04:08
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Side of the Road Chuck LeMonds 2023
Pick me up from where I lay
I can’t seem to move
my old body just won’t do
what I tell it to
I took a walk on this sunny day
like I do most every day
when a storm arose on the horizon
and took my breath a way
Everybody looks so troubled
everybody looks so scared
but I hear a bird on the fence post
singing in my ear
Young man, young man don’t worry
as you lean into my face
blowing air into my lungs
offering up a saving grace
By the side of the road,
side of the road
I took my last breath,
by the side of the road. 2x Chorus
Cars drive by and some do stop
to see what’s going on
and the rain clouds are moving in
and the bird just sings his song
You can see that I’m an old man
and so today I will not cry
as I took my last breath by this road
and fell in the grass and died.
Now I wish I’d picked wild flowers for my wife of 50 years
and left them on the table in a glass to hold her tears
tell her that I’ve gone to that place that we both know
and I’ll wait under the Linden tree listening for the wind to blow.
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10. |
Time Is Slipping Away
04:24
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Slipping Away © Chuck LeMonds 2023
Time is slipping away
Time is slipping away
You can’t stop it
I can’t stop it
Some would try to, if they could
But I don’t want to, unless you would
Come and slip away with me.
When I hold you close to me
There’s no time to waste
I tell you how I love you
With each kiss I place.
Chorus
Nothing is so important
It can wait a day or two
Let’s embrace our sweet illusions
And dance the whole night through.
Chorus
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11. |
This Is The Kind of Love
05:27
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Chuck LeMonds Austria
Chuck LeMonds’ music is a kind of Country Soul gumbo of blues, folk, funk and country with poetic lyrics that call to be heard. In times like these, the music and songwriting of Chuck LeMonds has the effect of a soothing balsam for the soul, or that of a plow turning over fresh soil in a field waiting to be planted in spring. ... more
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