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Album: Sacred Gossip (2023)

by Chuck LeMonds

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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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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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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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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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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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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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This Is The Kind of Love 05:27
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released December 10, 2023

Produced by Chuck LeMonds

Recorded and mixed by Chuck LeMonds,
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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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