LIVING IN LIVE OAK

“Living in Live Oak”

By Frank Ellsworth Lockwood
Feb. 16, 1019
(To rhythm of Satin Doll)

VS 1
Living in Live Oak
You know it’s funny
Those incredible live oaks “
They still remain

VS 2
Mistletoe loaded
All parasitic
Those live oaks
Penetrated my brain

Chorus
Well if you’re living in Live oak
You’d better not leave it
Cause if you do leave it
You’re surely insane

VS 3
Loving in Live Oak
Under those big trees
Christmas tree kissing
Beneath the mistletoe wreath

Ending
Da, da da, da da
Da, da da
D,a da da,
Daaa, da da, dee.

Note: Deaf guitarist/songwriter Frank Ellsworth Lockwood grew up in the Live Oak District of Santa Cruz, California.

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Crying with me last night: A song by Frank Ellsworth Lockwood

Dream Song: (Eerie Music)
This is a song written by Frank Ellsworth Lockwood on January 17, 2014, inspired by a dream and re-written/edited on October 28, 2015.. 

Who was that crying with me last night?

Chorus 1
I thought I heard laughter
Seeping through the rafters:
A sound of barroom music
Drifting through the night.

Verse 1
I was dreaming of
Old songs of sadness
Dancing on the left,
Talking on the right.

Instrumental

Verse 2

Oh yes, I heard laughter

But I was crying,
Shrinking on my pillow
In oceans of blue music,
Drifting through the night.


Verse 3
Please, I think I'm dying,
And sinking in this sand.
Someone can't you help me,
And hold my hand?

As I go smirking through the night.


Verse 4
Before my head goes under.
Something makes me wonder.
Will anyone be singing,
My songs when I die?

Chorus 2
I heard God laughing.
Someone called it "thunder."
Eerie dreary music.
Drifting through the night.


Verse 5
My aching body tenses,

While they break someone’s senses.
Out in the woodsheds
And we all condoned.

Instrumental

Verse 6
Slowly I am sifting, all I've seen and heard.
Some lunatic was laughing, amused at the absurd
Sighs and moans, oh, sighs and moans.
Songs of sorrow, someone was sobbing softly
In bed with me last night.

Chorus 2

Ending
Who was that crying with me last night?

 #song #crying #dying  #godlaughing #spiritualsong #laughter #poem

The Radical at the Long Branch Bar

A song about a radical hiding out in a tavern in Eastern Washington, by Frank Ellsworth Lockwood

Spoken words:  "A radical, illegal alien from the Levant is believed to be living in Southeast Washington State.   If you see a man matching this description, please report it to the FBI.

(G) Well he eats fish tacos all the time, (Em) Eats fish tacos all the time. (G) Eats fish tacos all the (Em) time.  This (B7) radical friend of  (Em) mine.

(G) The souls of his feet just smoke the ground. (Em) The souls of his feet just smoke the ground. (G) The soles of his feet just smoke the (Em) ground.  This (B7) radical friend of (Em) mine.

(G)Eats with sinners and drinks red wine. (Em) Eats with sinners and drinks red wine. (G) Eats with sinners and drinks red (Em) wine.  This (B7) radical friend of (Em) mine.

(G) Knows every sinner from Palestine. (Em) Knows every sinner from Palestine. (G) Knows every sinner from Pales- (Em) tine.  This (B7) radical friend of (Em) mine.

(G) Went right down to the Long Branch Bar. (Em) Went right down to the Long Branch Bar. (G) Went right down to the Long Branch (Em) Bar.  This (B7) radical friend of (Em) Mine.

(G) He played like the devil on an old guitar (Em) Played like the devil on an old guitar. (G) Played like the devil on an old guit- (Em) tar.  This (B7) radical friend of (Em) mine.

(G) This radical friend of mine, (B7) From Pales- (Em) tine. At the Long Branch (G) Bar.


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