HendrixPens

Folk

  • Grandpa jack

    (verse)I was doin’ three weeks for somethin’ dumbThere weren’t much room in the jail, so y’allThey put me in a cell with a real old manGray hair, red eyes and some shakin’ handsHe’d tell stories ‘n jokes ‘n I’d just… Continue reading

    Grandpa jack

  • Turning Outlaw

    (Verse) The camp’s glowin’ embers sigh smoke and die out Like our chances in Sanora’s gold mines And what’s left to eat has been gone for a week Can no longer tell the women it’s fine There’s a train comin’… Continue reading

  • Lady Dixie

    (Verse) Oh, your battlefields and mountains And those old dusty back roads Pecan pie and porch swings And fishin’ on the Shenandoah  Guitars, beer and back yards A glass of ice-cold sweet tea Yeah, I smell your honeysuckle  Fields of… Continue reading

  • Keeper of the Time

    (Verse) It was golden-colored with a leather band Clear blue glass and those small black hands He’d look down at it like a habit The one thing he wore that never changed He once told me about that watch And… Continue reading

  • Happy Place

    (Verse)If pain was like a hammer And regret, ten-penny nails And mistakes were like flooring tiles Missed chances, stairs and rails If missing you was plywood If needing you was a saw Not having you as my level Yeah, girl,… Continue reading

  • The Hanging Tree

    (Verse) Old Jimmy, two days an outlaw Hit a cattle farm and a bank Stopped at the saloon for whiskey And tried to start him up a gang But this town were new for old Jimmy Little did this outlaw… Continue reading