Family Tree My Fathers House Darrell Scott (EMI Music/House of Bram Music, ASCAP) I was born and raised in my father's house Can catching rain in the kitchen He said a good song never comes to those who chase It comes to those who listen And I'd listen to him Waking up in the middle of the night I know he thought we were sleeping And with an old melody and a guitar in hand Somewhere between dreaming and weeping He'd sing a walk on the wildside lasts a lifetime for me I grew up quick in my father's house Mama she gave him no daughters Just a look in the eye of a woman in need To be free of a love grown harder So she hit the road in a Galaxy Ford The one that my daddy had bought her And she crossed the tracks and never looked back She was hummin' a song he had tought her She sang a walk on the wildside lasts a lifetime with me There was this big black trunk in my father's house Where he kept all the ledgers he'd write in And I broke into it before I moved out To see if I could find out more about him There were letters written, never sent to my mom It's a wonder it never killed him And there were lines, and songs, and poetry Damn near as good as Hank Williams Sing a walk on the wildside lasts a lifetime with me Rhonda's Last Ride Darrell Scott (Famous Music/ChuckWagon Gourmet Music, ASCAP) She was found in her bedroom with a note on the wall Saying take me or leave me, it don't matter now at all Her passing made the papers though there weren't much to say Just a girl of the night takes her life at midday She was fond of the ladies and good to the men And she could take you 'bout anywhere that you'd never been Though I never touched her we'd walk every day Heading west down Sunset talking our lives away CHORUS Said she could walk on the waterbed, shoot out the lights Take you up to the limits, push you over the line Said if you wanna see God, brother, close your eyes... This one's for Rhonda's last ride There's a town in Nevada, just across the state line Where Rhonda grew up ahead of her time Why, if I had to say, it's her daddy to blame Old desert rat Cody set her childhood to flame And there were GI's and truckers and ghosts of the road On their way up to Vegas they'd lighten their load There was many a lover but nary complained And it was many a man who'd call out her name CHORUS I'm not here to tell you she died out of shame In her last chosen moment, her lips cursed no name Not Cody nor Jesus, not a cry out for love She told me to tell you that leaving's enough CHORUS Lazarus Dies Again Darrell Scott and Marcus Humman (Famous Music/Chuck Wagon Gourmet Music, ASCAP & BMG/Floyd Songs, BMI) Rise up Lazarus, get out of that grave Rise and shine Lazarus, clean up and get a shave Martha is weeping, she's been gnashing her teeth Can't you hear her wailing, rise up and stop her grief The dogs are sniffing, the children are scared Now, Martha is laughing "brother you've been spared" She's cooking a goat, calling all her friends Oh rise up Lazarus and live again (again, again) CHORUS Rise up, rise up He's a local celebrity they all buy him drinks He's an authority on death they ask him what he thinks Did you see my mother there? Or see a great white light? Did you fight with the devil on that eternal night? He goes on a lecture circuit Hosts his own T.V. show Has his pick of women wherever he goes He advises politicians, he dines with kings Gets a record deal and he starts to sing (and sing, and sing) CHORUS Then Jesus gets in trouble and goes to trial Lazarus gets wind and lays low for a while The network pulls the plug, the record deal heads south He hides out in the cave behind Martha's house And they weep, they cry and moan for their friend All the lies the injustice and how he meets his end They cry for a while then he starts to grin "My God Martha, he's gonna rise again (again, again) CHORUS After the burial they just move away Get an apartment in Cairo and live out their days He works on chariots and keeps his secret well hid And never talks about what Jesus did The years roll along, they both get on the pension And he often thinks of his former attention On the night he lay dying he calls out to his friend "Oh Jesus can you hear me?" Then Lazarus dies again Double-Headed Eagle Darrell Scott & Marcus Hummon (Famous Music/Chuck Wagon Gourmet Music, ASCAP & BMG/Floyd Songs, BMI) We had a fight And I walked the street for hours When I returned she was sleeping on the floor Spo I entered her dream As a double-headed eagle One head said to the other one Oh, I need something more I need open skies Where the sun is always rising To see the my shadow on the mountain And know that you're not there CHORUS A double-headed eagle Has got one set of wings Two eyes to heaven And two eyes that cling to all earthly things Oh love don't cry We will meet each week for dinner We will talk about the children And the new friends we have found Then she woke up I said "Babe you were only dreaming" Then we made love like love would never come again Mahala Darrell Scott (EMI Music/Full Light Music, BMI) She's the sweetest when she's sleeping I've watched her many times She'll wake up and she'll catch me Looking straight into her eyes But she never seems too worried She knows it's just my way So I hold to her and kiss her And start another day with Mahala I've watched her grow to love me Like a poet would watch a deer Sometimes she can't get enough of me Sometimes I can't get near But we wait for one another Like a farmer waits for spring Through the long dark nights of winter I could face most anything with Mahala BRIDGE And if you have a broken heart she'll gladly take you in She'll hold your hand and talk to you and love you like a friend She'll show you things you've never known before And when you're finished healing You will want to stay some more With Mahala I hope she stays beside me 'Til she can make it on her own And live a life that's worthy Of the seeds of love she's sown But 'til then I'll turn the light on just to see that she's still there And if I were a praying man, Lord knows I'd say a prayer for Mahala When There's No One Around / Will The Circle Be Unbroken Darrell Scott and Tim O'Brien (Famous Music/Chuck Wagon Gourmet Music and Forerunner Music/Howdy Skies Music, ASCAP) / trad. When There's No One Around This is the song that nobody knows I couldn't begin to describe how it goes But it makes me cry and laugh right out loud It's the song I sing when there's no one around This is the man that nobody sees He wears my old clothes and he looks just like me And if he learned how to fly he'd never touch down It's the man I am when there's no one around CHORUS It's four in the morning, I'm lying in bed With a tape of my failures playing inside my head The hardknocks and heartaches, things I don't know I listen and wonder, where will it go? This is aglimpse of the child within He's so immature but he's still my best friend He's just one of the boys who gets lost in a crowd It's the kid I am when there's no one around CHORUS This is the dance I do everyday I let my soul lead and it takes me away And it leads my steps to higher ground It's the dance I do when there's no one around Will The Circle Be Unbroken I was standing by my window On a cold and cloudy day When I saw that undertaker For to carry my mother away Well I told that undertaker Undertaker please rive slow For the lady you are hauling Lord I hate to see that woman go CHORUS Will the circle be unbroken By and by Lord by and by There's a better home awaiting By and by Lord by and by Well I followed close behind them I tried to stand up and be brave But I could not hold back my sorrow When they laid her in the grave CHORUS Will the circle be unbroken By and by Lord by and by Please tell me there's a better home awaiting In the sky Lord in the sky I went back home but my home was lonesome Since my mother, she was gone All my brothers and sisters crying Lord what a home so sad and lonesome CHORUS She Sews The World With Love Darrell Scott (EMI MUsic/ Full Light Music, BMI) My love she takes a needle and a thread With abox of cloth she keeps under the bed And she makes a form where there was none A house, a square, a star, a moon, a sun She sews the world with love We sleep beneath a comforter she made From some old faded jeans of mine she saved And it warms us on a winter night And cheers us in the summer light because She sews the world with love BRIDGE And if she ever leaves me it'll be her final rest I'll spend my days knowing that I have loved the best And if I go before her and leave this world below I leave my music for posterity But my love will get my clothes We made a child in the first part of the year And on a singer's pay we've had our share of fear But we'll wrap the the babe in swaddling clothes With quilts and shirts and pants and hats she sews She sews the world with love I Never Had A Sister Darrell Scott (Famous Music/ Chuck Wagon Gourmet Music, ASCAP) I never had a sister Me and four brothers made up the family It was high school that I missed her To tell me what the other girls never saw in me I got married when I was twenty More like sister really And less like a lover But it didn't last too long We sang our black swan song She moved to Florida and I ran for cover I sometimes had a mother Seems like she left me too when she left the old man She'd come back with my baby brother They tried to hold to something that they never really had So twice a month at her mobile home manor Forced to face each other by acourt decree I learned to love my mother When I finally figured out that she loved me I never had a savior Though I'd pray to beat the devil Through the lightning and the thunder A temporary change of behavior I'd lift my prayer's up to the ceiling But the cracks would make me wonder Now I wander through the woods by the river And make my altar out of earth, stone and wood There's one thing 'bout a savior If you ain't lost, a savior can't do you any good If you ain't lost, a savior can't do you any good Family Tree Darrell Scott (Famous Music/ Chuck Wagon Gourmet Music, ASCAP) Dancin in the living room, cuttin' up a rug Dancin' with a baby looks more like a hug Livin' in a house made of saw mill wood Roll Over Beethoven never sounded so good CHORUS Hey, hey baby, baby let's go Where we get the money, honey, I don't know One more baby's all right by me We'll just add another limb to the family tree Raisin' up babies is our new sport You're one day late and I'm a dollar short Now maybe it was planned or maybe it was a goof But a cat just has to dance on a hot tin roof CHORUS Well the lawn mower's broke and the tax is due And if I find another tick I'm gonna come unglued We got hand me-down clothes, hand me-down shoes We got the big-belly-mama-here-we-go-again blues CHORUS The Hummingbird Darrell Scott (Famous Music/ Chuck Wagon Gourmet Music, ASCAP) A farmboy from Kentucky Hills Learned to play guitar for his backpoarch thrills Lean a ladderback chair on a windowsill And look out at the stars He must have got it up in Michigan He and his brothers were pickin then When he moved to Gary he took it with him That Gibson Hummingbird guitar Oh how that guitar would ring Dad would close his eyes and sing Silver Haired Daddy would always bring a tear to his eyes I was all of five years old My brother Don and a kid down the road We just did what we was told to get outside and play Someone wrapped it in a coat And we took it to the swamp just to see if it'd float But a Hummingbird is not a boat And it sank straight away When he got home that's when he heard What we'd done to that Hummingbird And he looked at me and never said a word Just went out back to see And there it was in all it's mess With the cattails and the redwing nests And there he laid it down to rest for all eternity One of these days you know what I'll do Get a Hummingbird guitar and a brother or two Underneath a Kentucky moon, give him back his childhood dream It won't make up for thirty-two years And it won't dry up a swamp of tears But it's better than a case of beer and a fifth of Jim Beam My Father's House(reprise) Darrell Scott (EMI Music/ House of Bram Music Music, ASCAP) Now I'm making payments on my father's house I've patched up the holes in the ceiling And he's moved out west to live with the best With a restless heart still healing Now I got me a wife and I got me some kids They're calling me out the backdoor Saying come out and play, put that guitar away What you singing that old song for? I sing a walk on the wildside last a lifetime with me