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Wish You Were Here Waltz 04:19
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Wish You Were Here Waltz As I sit tonight by my fire and I gaze at the stars The sky and the objects it holds seem so near yet so far I can imagine that you, like the stars, could be near Though you're far away my love burns like this fire my dear CHORUS: Wish you were here Waltzing under the stars The stars are so bright, the sky is so clear How I wish you were here Tonight the stars fall and trace lines of light in the night sky I wish their beauty would last as they race past my eye Our time together seems brief as I think of you dear As the meteors race, I remember your face, and I wish you were here Chorus The sparks from the fire seem to leap out to join the stars My heart leaps with them to follow the sparks clear to Mars Somewhere tonight with my hopes in the world of my dreams We'll waltz the wish you were here waltz through the stars, and I'll sing Chorus
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Great Grandfather 03:25
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Great Grandfather As a young boy, he was raised in Minnesota As a young boy, he played beside the tracks As a young boy, his father was an engineer One day his father took his train and never did come back CHORUS: Sometimes I think I hear a train grumbling down a valley I believe I hear an whistle blowing off a head of steam Or is it just deep waters that flow beneath a trestle Or Great-grandfather coming to me in my dream As a young man he never finished high school As a young man he began to ride the trains As a young man the railroad found out he was colorblind The day he lost his railroad job, my grandpa’s life did change Sometimes you’d think he’d heard a train grumbling down a valley You’d think he’d heard a whistle blowing off a head of steam Or was it just deep waters that flow beneath a trestle Or great grandfather coming to him in his dream? Sometimes I believe that big machines are in my bloodline Grandpa taught me how to crush a penny on the tracks And I don’t know why I’m moved by the rumble of a freight train Or why my blood runs cold each time I hear a whistle blow Great-grandfather died beneath a trestle He drowned in deep water when the trestle timbers broke As a young boy, I swam Great-grandpa’s river I’d hear the rumble of a freight train each time Great-grandpa spoke cHORUS, repeat last line: Is it Great-grandfather coming to me in my dream?
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Jesse 05:10
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Oh Jesse CHORUS: Oh Jesse, why'd you have to run so far Oh Jesse, who made the times we live in get so hard Oh Jesse, don't you know that I love you Oh Jesse, I'm hopin' that you love me too A man came from the bank last Saturday He put the house we live in up for sale He told me that I'd have to move out Last week my unemployment options failed Oh Jesse, how's the weather there in old Kabul? Oh, Jesse, this world is makin' me a fool CHORUS I hope that you are doing well there You told me that they pay you well You sent me an email a few hours ago Said they tried to put you in their jail Oh Jesse, now you say you're on the run You say if they ever catch up with you they're gonna shoot you down in cold blood CHORUS We saw you on our computer just a week ago You really looked good to me Little Johnny asks about you every day You're the man that Johnny'd like to be Oh Jesse, Johnny and I miss you so Oh Jesse, how I wish you hadn't had to go CHORUS
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Papa 04:27
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Papa Papa always said he'd take it with him Though it turned out that it wasn't all that much Mama said they'd end up in the poorhouse They never learned to have a golden touch But they did alright Papa always lived close to the country He loved to get his hands down in the soil Mama'd worked the harvests with her sister She'd learned to can the crops that came from papa's soil And they did alright CHORUS: Papa was a healer I was never sure just how he got to be The times that papa lived in Had robbed him of a piece of empathy Those times weren't easy But he did alright How's a man like that get so damned crazy? He was a bigot though he struggled not to be Almost eighty working on a reservation Before he learned to have a little empathy I guess he did alright Papa blamed poor people for his problems Or the government who gave it all away He never seemed to care if he got wealthy You'd never guess it if you heard the things he'd say He thought that he was right CHORUS: Papa was a healer I was never sure just how he got to be The war had torn his mind up It took going through a war myself to see That it isn't easy But we do alright Papa loved the quiet of the mountains He'd take an easel and he'd sit and paint for hours You could see his love of landscape in his paintings And the colors of the brightest mountain flowers It made him feel alright I hope that papa knew how much I loved him He wasn't perfect, but he tried his best to be The little boy who dogged him all around his garden Thought there was no one else on earth he'd rather be On this winter's night CHORUS: Papa was a healer I was never sure just how he got to be The times that papa lived through Had served to build his sense of empathy Those times weren't easy But he did alright Those times weren't easy But he did alright It's still not easy On this winter's night
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Alternate Universe 03:51
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Alternate Universe Sometimes the words are broken The pieces can't be made to fit They wander around through a universe Where you couldn't make sense of it The colors are bright, and the light shocks your eyes Then the dance goes around, and around You find yourself in a looking glass world Where your alternate universe abounds You look through the clouds to the planet You marvel at the greens, and the blue The red lights that dance on the eye of a needle Wonder what is their meaning to you You think of the kind of conditions You lived in when you were a child Where you'd run through the water barefoot and naked It Was a time when you could see wild Now you can't get to the middle You think you can see to the end The beginnings forgotten, the path is forsaken It's a long ways in back of a bend Every year finds there's more people The planet gets stressed a bit more What makes you think I don't notice Or why you haven't thought this before I won't be leaving this planet I'm certain that I won't survive Yes, I'll be returning to carbon and gas Nobody gets out of here alive Still I'm reminiscing a future Where a human race grew to survive Still sometimes I wonder just why I should care I guess it's the thrill of the ride REPEAT FIRST VERSE, END
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County Durham 05:20
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Durham County CHORUS: When I dream, I dream of Durham That's a county where I long to be When I dream, I hear the piper's calling They all sing "come you home to me" I am a British deep sea captain As my father was long before me I make my life on the deep salt ocean Far away from Durham County My first mate takes care of my ship They are all good lads that work for me Hard working lads from across the earth Most places far from Durham County CHORUS The wind may blow, the waves may tumble Wash us across South China Sea In my heart, the waves will wash me Someday back to Durham County So sing you lads of a southern ocean Of a sailor tossed upon the sea Sing it loud. Won't you sing it clear boys? So they'll hear us in Durham County CHORUS I miss my wife, and my sweet young daughter May my love reach across the sea My loved ones keep the home fires burning At my hearth and home in Durham County The day will come when I'll retire I'll leave this life upon the sea I'll play the spoons, and my old tin whistle We'll sing the songs they love in Durham County CHORUS, repeat: They all sing "come you home to me" Won't you come home to Durham County
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Angels of the Road 04:23
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Angels of the Road We are just two orphans riding at each other's side We hold each other's hearts in hand, as through this life we ride We've been to the Northlands To the land of ice and snow We've been to the Southlands To the land of the orange groves We have seen the tyrant With a sword held in his hand We've stayed with the tenant farmer We've helped him till his land We have stayed with the gentle folk From a village in the south We've been to the land of the polar bear With the Eskimo hung out The darkness falls The cold wind blows You cannot find a shelter Any way that you could go You hold the crystal in your hand You feel the crystal's glow As it makes connection in your thoughts To the angels of the road CHORUS: You know they'll come To your minstrel soul They'll hear the song inside your mind It will make their cup seem full Yes you know they'll come Give shelter from the storm By the fire give you bread and wine And a place where you can warm It's only faith Something that you know When the world has given up on you There's a place where you can go They're the angels Angels of the road This world may be treacherous, this may only be a dream As the world changes faces, is not the way it seemed The dance goes ever faster Then the drummer slows his beat Though you try you cannot follow him Through the fire and the heat You stumble and you catch yourself It was a pebble in the road But your pack has started swinging You've unbalanced half your load You catch your balance once again Then you catch the drummer's beat Now the day has made you weary Every path leads to defeat and CHORUS Repeat: Angels of the road They're the angels, angels of the road. END
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Would You Hold My Hand 04:20
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Would You Hold My Hand Would you hold my hand When the cold winds blow Would you hold me tight Against the blowing snow Would you say you'll stay After the summer's gone Or will I wake one morn To find that you have gone Would you hold my hand Like you did last spring Would you kneel and say That I'm your everything Would you hold my hand Put on a golden ring Or would you ride away Sayin' you'll come next spring I would hold your hand Like I did last spring By this time you know That you're my everything I would hold your hand Put on a golden ring I would stay with you For a hundred springs Would you hold my hand Standin' by my side When the preacher man Asks, "Will you take this bride To be your wife to have, and to hold?" Would you say, "Yes Until the sands of time unfold"? I would hold your hand Standing by your side When the preacher man Asks “Will you take this bride To have and to hold And take her for your wife?" I would say "Yes, I would have her for all my life." Would you hold my hand If I would stand by you If you declared your love I said I love you too Then I would stand by you Until the end of time If you would hold my hand And tell me you'd be mine - tell me you'd be mine
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Whistlin' In The Rain 03:45
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Whistlin' In the Rain I left home half busted If I was broke then there I'd be But that was way back when a soul Could live for almost free You could get yourself a dollar Not stray far from home Mister if you've got a time machine That's where I'd like to roam CHORUS: Whistlin' in the rain Whistlin' in the rain I'd give a dollar for any dime you've got If I could get back home again Whistlin' in the rain Just whistlin' in the rain Tryin' to ditch this American Dream That's hung up in my brain The factory here went busted They moved it overseas Folks 'round here die early Of industrial disease Our brothers join the army Sisters try to marry well Here I am on my piece of land just two doors down from hell CHORUS I've learned to fix computers I can fix cars too You can learn most anything If it's what you have to do Buddy I'd best be moving You'd best to move on too When you get where you don't want to be I'll be lookin' back at you CHORUS The home town looks deserted Our old house looks broken down I've traveled half this country I don't know what I've found I'm not sure where I'm goin' I don't know what I might find When I end up where I end up I hope folks there are kind, 'til then I'm CHORUS
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If Peace Will Come 06:15
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If Peace Will Come The wars run long, the wars run deep Tell me, how long until the white dove sleeps? Our young men kill, our young men die Could someone please give me just one good reason why? Hear the bombs fall down, hear the children cry Hear the mother ask her god to give her one good reason why Feel the searing heat, and the concussion blast The children cry no more, the mother’s life is past   CHORUS: If peace will come, must it lie in wait? Is peace a ghost, a puff of smoke, Is war our chosen fate? If peace may come, may peace run long May peace run like a river deep inside this song   The sweat shops come, they hardly ever go You say you don’t, but most of you know Slaves live their lives, in bondage die Could someone please give me just one good reason why? The poor man laughs, see him dance with joy He’s known that he’d be poor like this since he was just a boy See the rich man smile, hear the rich man lie You’d never guess the rich and poor would share the same blue sky   CHORUS The skies turn brown, and the oceans die The species disappear, the causes we deny The icecaps melt, and the waters rise Could someone please give me just one good reason why? If peace may come, if freedom reign Will the rich man come to see injustices we see so plain? Or will his arrogant stand bring us all to naught? Must the earth perish underneath the weight of all he’s got?     CHORUS, repeat last line.  
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Big Floppy Hats 04:31
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Big Floppy Hats By Steve Nebel copyright 1996 Musk Ox Music BMI I had a dream last night - A dream about a world gone mad Pollution standards were relaxed There was lots of money to be made They were talking ‘bout building big cars They’d logged the forests of the national parks Slave labor was the order of the day They said that kept them off of welfare anyway Chorus: I didn’t like that world - so I thought about a world I’d like Now some people might have had bad thoughts But everyone was very, very nice Everyone would wear big floppy shoes Everyone would wear a big floppy hat Everyone would have a big red nose Who could be mean in a world like that In their big roomy pants - and their big floppy hat Chorus: I had a dream last night a dream about a world gone mad I saw a man with his finger on a trigger Just seeing that made me feel bad He was sitting at a big long table Everybody there had guns too They were threatening to shoot each other If they didn't do the things they said to Chorus: I had a dream last night About a world that seemed pretty nice Everybody had a big red smile Of course it was painted on their face They were dancing in a big green field There were people from all across the planet There were people representing every race - It seemed to be a very happy place I really liked that world - I didn't even have to think twice There was every skin color in the world And everyone was very, very nice Everyone was wearing big floppy shoes Everyone wore a big floppy hat Everybody had a big red nose Who could be mean in a world like that In their big roomy pants - and their big floppy hat

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released March 5, 2023

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Steve and Kristi Nebel Tacoma, Washington

Steve and Kristi Nebel bring passion, finesse, and beauty with their songs of social justice, knife edge observations, and pure, simple love. They have traveled extensively having done nine tours in UK folk clubs and festivals. They have recorded more than ten CDs, mostly of their own songs. ... more

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