LIFE AIN'T ALWAYS EASY
Words and music: Danny Britt (ASCAP)
Austin Red Dawg Publishing © 2004

Life ain't always easy
Life ain't always fun
Sometimes you have to walk
Sometimes you get to run
The sky is always darkest
just before the dawn
But you know the sun will rise
if you keep on keeping on

Rain will fall and sun will shine
Everybody knows that’s true
When you think you’ve got it all
then comes lonesome stew
Sometimes it’s all so easy
like walking in the park
Sometimes you take dead aim
but you just can’t hit the mark

Life is always easy
through other people’s eyes
The grass is always greener
on the other side
You gotta know the road you’re on
is the road you need
It’s all about the getting there
not about the speed

There’s a man i know in Austin
He’s everybody’s friend
He’s always got a smile
as he reaches out his hand
The grey hair on his head
is no measure of the man
You know he’s always keeping on
just because he can

Into everbody’s life
a little rain must fall
The water helps us grow
so that we can stand up tall
So look around enjoy the day
it never lasts that long
Like flowers in the spring
by winter time they’re gone

chorus

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LITTLE BIRD
Words and Music: Jerry Jeff Walker (BMI)

Little bird come sit upon my window sill
He sat there through the falling rain
As I watched that little bird upon my window sill
I saw my thoughts of you go by again

The picture of my face
On the window pane
Is it tears I see or is it rain

I remember how we talked Before we said goodbye
Too young to know this world outside our door
How we laughed and said our love was free; Like birds that fly the wind
Now the rainy day made me think of you once more

Chorus

I have no regrets about the past; See how young we were
When our world was love and life was but a thought
Many things go many ways and many times, but once
Till our life was past and that love is but a thought

Chorus

As my thought go tumblin’ back I wonder how you look
I wonder if you’ve seen that little bird
I wonder if he’s sat upon your window sill
I wonder if you’ll ever hear these words

Chorus

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YOU GOTTA MOVE
Britt/Dykhuis © 2007
Austin Red Dawg Publishing (ascap) /Jazzmo Music (bmi)

Sometimes you’re gonna’ win
Sometimes you’re gonna’ loose
Sometimes you’re gonna’ do
just what you’re gonna’ do
The grass is gonna’ grow
and the flowers gonna’ bloom
The birds are gonna’ sing
in the afternoon

Some people got style
Some people got guts
Some people want to lay
in the middle of the rut
Some people sing the blues
Some people rock and roll
Some people want to drive
but don’t wanna’ pay the toll

The fish are gonna’ swim
in the middle of the lake
They’re gonna bite the
hook
if you’ve got the right bait
Sometimes you gotta’ dance
when the musics got a
groove
You can’t sit still
you know you gotta’ move

What we think & what we say
won’t make the world a dime
It’s only what we do
that makes our place in time
The politicians talk
Say what we want to hear
But when the votes are cast
They don’t remember things so clear

The wind is gonna’ blow
Sand is gonna’ fly
If you drink a lot of whiskey
then you’re gonna’ get high
Sometimes you wanna’ go
and sometimes you wanna’ stay
Sometimes you wanna’ sleep
in the middle of the day

chorus

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SHE AIN'T GOING NOWHERE
Guy Clark

She’s standin' on the gone side of leavin'.
She found a thumb and stuck it in the breeze.
She'll take anything that's goin' close to somewhere.
She can lay it down and live it like she please

Chorus

She ain't goin' nowhere, she's just leavin'.
She ain't goin' nowhere she can't breathe in.
And she ain't goin' home, and that's for sure.

Well the wind had it’s way with her hair
And the blues had a way with her smile
And she had a way of her own
Like prisoners have a way with a file

Chorus

She's not sitting down and cryin' on her suitcase.
She has no second thoughts by the road.
But she's got feelings that need some reparin'.
And she did not give a damn that it showed.

Chorus

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GOTTA WALK THIS ROAD
Danny Britt © 2006
Austin Red Dawg Publishing (ascap)

Been walkking this road so long
I don’t know how far it goes
Sometimes it hurts so bad
still gotta walk down this road

This road is long and lonesome
feels like it’s never gonna end
The more I go the less i see
feels like I don’t have a friend

Been wondering if I’m ever gonna
get back home this time
Got a woman that I’ve gotta see
one more time
I gotta walk this road

My baby don’t drink no whiskey
My baby don’t do cocaine
My baby’s got what i need
Kinda love make a man insane

Sometimes it’s dark and dreary
feels like that sun won’t shine
It just takes a little faith in Jesus
Leave your troubles all behind

Been wondering if I’m ever gonna
get back home this time
Got a woman that I gotta feel
one more time
I gotta walk this road

Don’t matter what you been doing
Hard times they come and go
Whatever will be will be
You still gotta walk down this road

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I LOVE YOU MORE
(THAN I CAN SAY)
D. Britt / M. Dykhuis © 2004