Songs -- Writing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 781 Collections and/or Records:
Non-Music Notes and Assorted
Series
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The archives of Texas singer-songwriter James McMurtry include a career-spanning (from 1984 up to and including his 2021 album, The Horses and the Hounds) collection of personal papers and original song lyrics, press clippings, photographs, master audio recordings, and video cassettes. The collection is divided into nine series, with Series I-VIII comprising all of the papers, notepads and photographs (and some small personal items) and Series IX all of the audio and video recordings. ...
Dates:
1984 - 2021
Found in:
The Wittliff Collections
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James McMurtry Papers
Notepad with lyrics for “Bad Enough” and “Restless”
File — Box 4, Folder: 10
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:
2005
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
Notepad with lyrics for “Canola Fields,” “Blackberry Winter”
File — Box 5, Folder: 20
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:
2021
Notepad with lyrics for “Cutter,” “Long Island Sound”
File — Box 5, Folder: 9
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:
2015
Notepad with lyrics for “Deaver’s Crossing,” “South Dakota,” “Just Us Kids”
File — Box 5, Folder: 8
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:
2015
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
Notepad with lyrics for “Long Island Sound,” “Cutter” and other unknown songs
File — Box 5, Folder: 7
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:
2015
Notepad with lyrics for “Melinda” and multiple other unknown songs (“Dressed for the occasion”; “You never knew …”
File — Box 2, Folder: 12
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:
1995
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
File — Box 8, Folder: 20
Series Description
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1984 - 2021
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)
File — Box 8, Folder: 22
Series Description
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1984 - 2021
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)
File — Box 8, Folder: 21
Series Description
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1984 - 2021
Notepad with lyrics for multiple songs, including “Haskell County”
File — Box 8, Folder: 24
Series Description
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1984 - 2021
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)
File — Box 8, Folder: 18
Series Description
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1984 - 2021
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 …”
File — Box 8, Folder: 19
Series Description
From the Series:
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.
Dates:
1984 - 2021
Notepad with lyrics for “Off and Running,” “Rachel’s Song,” “One More Winter,” “Lost in the Backyard,” and unknown (“We never did it for the money”; “Mary Ann”; “Quit the race …”)
File — Box 2, Folder: 15
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:
1995
Notepad with lyrics for “One More Winter,” “Saint Mary of the Woods” (one verse), “Iolanthe,” “Levelland,” “Fuller Brush Man”
File — Box 2, Folder: 14
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:
1995
Notepad with lyrics for “Right Here Now,” “Lost in the Backyard” and multiple other unknown songs
File — Box 2, Folder: 18
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:
1995
Notepad with lyrics for “Saint Mary of the Woods” and “Broken Bed”
File — Box 3, Folder: 27
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:
2002
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
