Stay, Dear Lord, Please Stay

CHORUS
Stay, dear Lord, please stay
with those who wake or weep.
Stay, dear angel, stay,
And watch us while we sleep.


Tend your sick ones,
Rest your weary ones,
For your love’s sake.
For your love’s sake.

Bless your dying ones
Soothe your suffering ones
For your love’s sake
For your love’s sake

CHORUS

Shield your joyous ones
Fill your hungry ones
For your love’s sake
For your love’s sake

Shelter your humble ones
Strengthen your peaceful ones
For your love’s sake
For your love’s sake

CHORUS

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Collaboration on the lyrics with Rose Vinh!

Graveyard Wisdom

lyrics by Paul Gorman & Chris Baker
music by Chris Baker

They'd give anything to have my cough
or a kingsized bed that was as soft
the dust settled in their veins
everyday seems just the same

just the same

they’d give anything to have my job
they judge my complaints as being odd
day after day they pine
that their days were just like mine

just like mine

They’d give anything to have my hope
And live this emotional kaleidoscope
Night after night they wish
That their lives were just like this

just like this

graveyard wisdom
graveyard wisdom


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To hear Paul Gorman's version of this song, click here.

I'll Just Go Back To Sleep Again

Yeah I dreamed today
The sun stole your face
Yeah I dreamed today
The sun stole your face
So I’ll draw these shades
And climb back in bed again
And I’ll just go back to sleep again

Yeah I’ll paint the sun
Pitch black so light won’t come
Yeah I'll paint the sun
Pitch black so light won't come
And I’ll dig my heels in
‘til the world stands still
And I’ll just go back to sleep again

I hope my dreams
Won’t fall asleep (no)
‘Cause I need (you)
Eileen..

Yeah your eyes seem so strange
When your heart's about to break
Yeah your eyes seem so strange
When your heart's about to break
You say I’m to blame
Cause I only want the dream
And I'll just go back to sleep again

03.12.10
collab w/Deric Trotter
Bounce 00 Project 6

Ring Out, Wild Bells

(Alfred, Lord Tennyson/Chris Baker)

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out, ring out, ring out, ring out
Ring out, wild bells!

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out, ring out, ring out, ring out
Ring out, wild bells!

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out, ring out, ring out, ring out
Ring out, wild bells.

12.31.09
xSTE-178x(need to do another take with good ending)
xSTE-179 Guitar tuned 1/2 step downx
STE-181 Standard tuning

Verse
G D G
G D G
G D/F# Em D/F#
G D G

Chorus
G D/F# Em D/F#
C D G

Sadie And Maud

lyrics by gwendolynn brooks