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Painting Box
03:39
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When the morning of your eyes
Comes waking through my shadows
Leaving just a trace of twilight sleep,
I whisper to the baby raindrops
Playing on my window,
And tell them gently this is not
The time that they should weep.
Chorus:
For somewhere in my mind there is a painting box,
I have every color there it's true.
Just lately when I look inside my painting box,
I seem to pick the colors of you.
My Friday evening's foot-steps plodding
Dully through this black town,
Are far away now from the world that I'm in.
My eyes are listening to some sounds
That I think just might be springtime,
With daffodils between my toes
I'm laughing at their whim,
Chorus
The purple sail above me catches
All the strength of summer.
Fishes stop and ask me where I am bound.
I smile and shake my head and say
My little ship is sinking,
But I kind of like the sea that I'm on,
And I don't mind if I do drown.
Chorus
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This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forests to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me
As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
And saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forests to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me
I roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forests to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me
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Germs (My Invisible Dog)
02:05
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Verse 1:
My very best friend is my little shaggy dog
Chewing on my tennis shoes and running through the hall
He's kind of like my shadow, cause he's everywhere I go
He sleeps in my bed, but my mommy doesn't know
Chorus:
I hide him in my pocket cause he's very, very small
Germs, Germs, my invisible dog
Verse 2:
He runs like the wind, and he knows some funny tricks
He doesn't like carrots and spinach makes him sick
He loves cotton candy and purple lemonade
Oreo cookies and yellow Gatorade
Chorus
Verse 3:
We ride our ponies to castles far away
Chasing funny dinosaurs and dragons ‘long the way
We often go exploring where the river winds and bends
Cowboy hats and wooden rafts like Huckleberry Finn
Chorus
Verse 4:
I take him to church but nobody ever sees
The little shaggy spotted dog sitting on my knee
He's learning bible verses and he loves the happy songs
But he often falls asleep when the sermon is too long
Chorus 2x’s
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Teach Your Children
02:44
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You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good-bye.
Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why,
If they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh
and know they love you.
And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh
and know they love you.
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Dandelion Root Portland, Oregon
Lance was born in Seattle, Washington in 1970. He started his career in music as a drummer in a grunge band, & from there it
was a logical progression to folk music.
Brenda was born in Kennewick, Washington in 1975. She has been singing since she was a little girl. Once in a while she pauses to take a breath.
Brenda & Lance have been making beautiful music together since 1994.
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