Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - October Road

Christmas future is far away Christmas past is past Christmas present is here today Bringing joy that may last Have yourself a merry little Christmas May your heart be light In a year our troubles will be out of sight From now on Have yourself a merry little Christmas Make the yuletide gay In a […]

Baby Buffalo - October Road

Are you there? Can you hear me? Somewhere near me In the morning long ago Had to hold you so close Had to never let go Time on the river Sliding on by Hard to believe Wink of an eye Where’d you go Baby Buffalo? What’s become of old Cotton Eyed Joe? Hold up, lying […]

Caroline I See You - October Road

Caroline, I see you Standing on the stairway Waiting for your bear there Handy on the landing Penny in my pocket High enough to hold you When I come back home to you tomorrow You may well be angry I’ll for sure be hungry Meet me in the middle Make it melt like chocolate Be […]

Carry Me On My Way - October Road

I forget what to ask for There isn’t anything I haven’t been given How could I wish for anything more As I am here living in heaven This moment in the sun To feel the wheel turning on Carry me on my way Carry me on my way Carry me on my way Carry me […]

Raised Up Family - October Road

I was raised up family Man I’m glad I’m on my own I was raised up family Man I’m glad I’m on my own I mean, God bless the child That can learn to live alone, yeah thinking about about my cousin What it was that did him in Could it have been that whiskey […]

My Traveling Star - October Road

Watch my back and light my way My traveling star, my traveling star Watch over all of those born St. Christopher’s Day Old road dog, young runaway They hunger for home but they cannot stay They wait by the door They stand and they stare They’re already out of there They’re already out of there […]

Mean Old Man - October Road

On my own How could I have known? Imagine my surprise Just a fool From a tree full of fools Who can’t believe his eyes Imagine my surprise I was a mean old man I was an ornery cuss I was a dismal Dan I made an awful fuss Ever since my life began Man, […]

Belfast To Boston (God’s Rifle) - October Road

There are rifles buried in the countryside for the rising of the moon May they lie there long forgotten till they rust away into the ground Who will bend this ancient hatred, will the killing to an end Who will swallow long injustice, take the devil for a country man Who will say “this far […]

Whenever You’re Ready - October Road

Little one done run out of money now No, it doesn’t seem to have a home Left to fend for yourself in the wilderness Out there living life all alone Whenever you’re ready You could see a dream come true Whenever you’re ready I’m just saying it’s up to you Whenever you’re ready Things could […]

On the Fourth of July - October Road

Shall I tell it again how we started as friends Who would run into one another now and again At the Yippee Cai O or the Mesa Dupree Or a dozen different everyday places to be I was loping along living alone We were ever so brave on the telephone Would you care to come […]