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Contains 25 Results:

“Where’s Johnny” (loose pages)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Abstract From the Series: Series I, “Lyrics for Released Albums,” is divided chronologically into sub-series by album, one for each of his studio albums (and one live album) released between 1989 and 2021: Too Long in the Wasteland, Candyland, Where’d You Hide the Body, It Had to Happen, Walk Between the Raindrops, Saint Mary of the Woods, Live in Aught-Three, Childish Things, Just Us Kids, Complicated Game, and The Horses and the Hounds. Within each album sub-series, the lyrics — mostly hand-written on loose notepad...
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-153, James McMurtry Papers / Lyrics for Released Albums / Candyland

Notepad with lyrics for “Candyland” and “Vague Directions”

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Abstract From the Series: Series I, “Lyrics for Released Albums,” is divided chronologically into sub-series by album, one for each of his studio albums (and one live album) released between 1989 and 2021: Too Long in the Wasteland, Candyland, Where’d You Hide the Body, It Had to Happen, Walk Between the Raindrops, Saint Mary of the Woods, Live in Aught-Three, Childish Things, Just Us Kids, Complicated Game, and The Horses and the Hounds. Within each album sub-series, the lyrics — mostly hand-written on loose notepad...
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-153, James McMurtry Papers / Lyrics for Released Albums / Candyland

Notepad with lyrics for “Don’t Waste Away” and “Save Yourself”

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Abstract From the Series: Series I, “Lyrics for Released Albums,” is divided chronologically into sub-series by album, one for each of his studio albums (and one live album) released between 1989 and 2021: Too Long in the Wasteland, Candyland, Where’d You Hide the Body, It Had to Happen, Walk Between the Raindrops, Saint Mary of the Woods, Live in Aught-Three, Childish Things, Just Us Kids, Complicated Game, and The Horses and the Hounds. Within each album sub-series, the lyrics — mostly hand-written on loose notepad...
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-153, James McMurtry Papers / Lyrics for Released Albums / Candyland

Notepad with lyrics for “Save Yourself” and multiple other unknown songs (“The years have scarred our faces”; “You don’t know what’s out there”; “I’m down by the bayou”)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Abstract From the Series: Series I, “Lyrics for Released Albums,” is divided chronologically into sub-series by album, one for each of his studio albums (and one live album) released between 1989 and 2021: Too Long in the Wasteland, Candyland, Where’d You Hide the Body, It Had to Happen, Walk Between the Raindrops, Saint Mary of the Woods, Live in Aught-Three, Childish Things, Just Us Kids, Complicated Game, and The Horses and the Hounds. Within each album sub-series, the lyrics — mostly hand-written on loose notepad...
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-153, James McMurtry Papers / Lyrics for Released Albums / Candyland

“Angeline” (loose pages)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Abstract From the Series: Series I, “Lyrics for Released Albums,” is divided chronologically into sub-series by album, one for each of his studio albums (and one live album) released between 1989 and 2021: Too Long in the Wasteland, Candyland, Where’d You Hide the Body, It Had to Happen, Walk Between the Raindrops, Saint Mary of the Woods, Live in Aught-Three, Childish Things, Just Us Kids, Complicated Game, and The Horses and the Hounds. Within each album sub-series, the lyrics — mostly hand-written on loose notepad...
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / SWWC-153, James McMurtry Papers / Lyrics for Released Albums / Too Long in the Wasteland