Box 8
Contains 20 Results:
Songs, “dated” RH 84-85. Includes “It’s a blank space on the map”; “I’m goin’ now”; “I feel no great attachment” (loose pages), , 1985
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
“Here Be Dragons” (loose pages)
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
“Guadalupe” (loose pages)
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
“The Hell They Created” (By Todd Richards and Fred Koller), 1987
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
“He Knows Everything / The Mastermind” (By James McMurtry and Fred Koller)
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
Folder labeled “Liberty Bar and Mission Street, 85,” containing lyrics and notes from San Antonio, 1985. Songs include “Storekeeper” (later released on Candyland, 1992) and Unknown: “Get your guitar out and play, dear James” (loose pages), 1985
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
Folder labeled “San Antonio/Woodlawn complete lyrics” containing typed lyrics to four songs dated 1987. Songs include “Dancing in Starlight,” “A Long Way Down,” “Your Ex Old Man,” and “Song for a Deck Hand’s Daughter” , 1987
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
Folder labeled "San Antonio Ridgewood 85-86” containing lyrics for Unknown: “Winter in San Antone …” and Unknown: “The thug that lives upstairs …” and notes and two pages of a hand-written short story (loose pages) , 1986
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
Folder labeled “Waterford / Talkeetna ’84” containing lyrics for early songs including Unknown: “I remember as a child tossing a coin …”; “Catfishing, Arivaa Lake, Arizona”; “Cut Throat Musician”; and “The World on Hold” (loose pages), 1984
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
Folder labeled “Ranch House 84-85” containing lyrics for early songs including “Small Town Boogie”; Unknown: “New Year’s Eve and no one’s here”; “Your Ex Old Man”; Unknown: “Why some people live here, I don’t know”; Unknown: “How’d it get this way”; Unknown: “Just lookin’ for a song to sing”; Unknown: “Alone in the night …” (loose pages), 1985
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
Stray Lyrics, songs unidentified (5 folders): Loose pages of verses, phrases, notes for songs
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
Prose — five handwritten pages of an untitled short story
Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.
2 notepads with lyrics for multiple songs, including Unknown: “You’re not from around here …”; Unknown: “Attention K-Mart shoppers …”
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
Notepad with lyrics for multiple songs, including Unknown: “I didn’t mean to make you nervous …”; “Saint Mary of the Woods” (from Saint Mary of the Woods, 2002); “Gone to the Y” (from Saint Mary of the Woods, 2002); “Deaver’s Crossing” (from Complicated Game, 2015); “Memorial Day” (from Childish Things, 2005)
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
Notepad with lyrics for multiple songs, including Unknown: “Otra quera con guitar …”; “Bad Enough” (from Childish Things, 2005); “Just Us Kids” (from Just Us Kids, 2008); Unknown: “Gonna build us a dream house …”
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
Notepad with lyrics for multiple songs, including “Childish Things” (from Childish Things, 2005), “Saint Mary of the Woods” (from Saint Mary of the Woods, 2002); and personal notes and contact numbers
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
Notepad with lyrics for multiple songs, including “Every Little Bit Counts” (from Walk Between the Rain Drops, 1998); “Iolanthe” (from Where’d You Hide the Body, 1995); “Charlemagne’s Home Town” (from Childish Things, 2005)
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
Notepad with lyrics for multiple songs, including “Comfortable” (from Walk Between the Rain Drops, 1998); Unknown: “My brother swears he can hear the ocean …”; “Lost in the Backyard” (from Where’d You Hide the Body, 1995); “Right Here Now” (from Where’d You Hide the Body, 1995); “Every Little Bit Counts” (from Walk Between the Rain Drops, 1998); “Out Here in the Middle” (from Saint Mary of the Woods, 2002); “Iolanthe” (from Where’d You Hide the Body, 1995); “Fuller Brush Man” (from Where’d You Hide the Body, 1995)
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
4 Notepads with lyrics for multiple unknown songs, including Unknown: “Pieces of the picture”; Unknown: “Ramble about …”; Unknown: “Never trust what the grown-ups say …”; Unknown: “I could send you flowers …”
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
Notepad with lyrics for multiple songs, including “Haskell County”
Series III contains folders of legal-sized notepads, each containing lyrics and/or notes for multiple songs. Song titles (or first lines/key phrases) are listed on each folder.
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