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I'll be Smiling
03:19
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I'LL BE SMILING
Well the heartaches had me askin if my lady-luck had flown
till I saw you smile and I fell, in style, in a way that I've never known
and after all the lessons Lord I know when I fell for you
that if I ever lose this love I'll learn to lose.
Cos I'll wake smiling in the morning (I'll be smiling)
I'll sleep smiling with your kiss goodnight (Kiss goodnight)
Always smiling with that thought that's burning
of the moment when I have you by my side.
If in the end, if I didn't lose much more than a good night's sleep
with all the girls that I ever knew and were always hard to keep
even times I've known they've left me sittin sad and blue
well If I ever lose this love I'll learn to lose.
Cos I'll wake smiling in the morning (I'll be smiling)
I'll sleep smiling with your kiss goodnight (Kiss goodnight)
Always smiling with that thought that's burning
of the moment when I have you by my side
Well it ain't no joke when you stand half broke and you're not what
your woman wants
For I'm not much more than a pocket of smoke and a hat full of
honky tonk
so I guess it's time to change my ways, in ways that I never knew
cos if I ever lose this love I'll learn to lose.
Cos I'll wake smiling in the morning (I'll be smiling)
I'll sleep smiling with your kiss goodnight (Kiss goodnight)
Always smiling with that thought that's burning
of the moment when I have you by my side.
© Gina Paola Ritch 2013
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ALL THE SONG INSIDE OF YOU
I wake up to the morning rain
that gently blows the curtains in
and every time the day begins with you
all I want to do
is sing
with all the song inside of you.
I only wanted to believe
when you were every word I breathed
and everything I thought that I could see was true
that for a moment too
that I could ever be
all the song inside of you
would you use your love to deceive me
would you trust it enough to believe me
that all I want is you.
The darkness of a note that flows
through everything you don't let go
and all you don't pretend to show, I knew
was yours to hold on to
and mine to love
with all the song inside of you.
would you use your love to deceive me
would you trust it enough to believe me
that all I want is you.
I wake up to the morning rain
that gently blows the curtains in
and every time the day begins with you
all I want to do
is sing
with all the song inside of you.
Would you care if you knew you'd hurt me
could I count on you to be there with me
when all I want is you
and all the song inside of you.
© Gina Paola Ritch 2016
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4. |
Heartache And Hang-Rope
02:30
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HEARTACHE & HANG-ROPE
There's nothin in this room sharp enough to kill me
other than the cigarette smoke
But I have time enough and I tobacco a-plenty
heartache and hang-rope.
There was a time I turned to you, but you turned on me
when I needed you most
and the only thing you left me there to hold on to
was heartache and hang-rope.
I gave you everything I had and asked for nothin'
except the trust you broke
and even then I didn't see what was comin'
with the heartache and hang-rope
There's nothin' in this room sharp enough to kill me
other than the cigarette smoke
But I have time enough and tobacco a-plenty
heartache and hang-rope.
Well I've got nothin' else than the heartache and hang-rope
and the hole you left me in
but heartache and hang-rope is all that I'll be needin' babe
to haul me out of it again.
© Gina Paola Ritch 2016
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5. |
A Long Time Gone
03:34
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Free as the wind
down the road I’ve blown
dragging the chains of a freedom known
by someone always on the run
I’ll just keep going
for there's not a place I don't see you
and all those days we knew a long time gone.
This road I’m on
is a one way track
and I don’t care what tomorrow holds
I’ll take each day as each day comes
and won’t look back
but when I do, it's back to you
and all those days we knew a long time gone.
Days we knew a long time gone... so long
Days we knew a long time gone... so long
For there isn’t a day
when a scent in the air
the sun on my skin
the autumn chill
or the cold of winter in my bones
no, there isn’t a thing
that doesn’t take me back to you
and all those days we knew
a long time gone.
And there isn’t a time
when the sigh of spring
the lazy haze
of a summer’s day
the whistle of the wind and a song
no, there isn’t a thing
that doesn’t take me back to you
and all those days we knew
a long time gone.
I’ll sail these seas
and I’ll cross these lands
to new horizons moving on
to whatever lies beyond
down a road so long,
until the day I say so long to you
and to all those days we knew a long time gone.
© Gina Paola Ritch 2013
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NASHVILLE BAIL BOND BLUES
(Song for Ol' Ronnie)
Hey cowboy can you spare me a paper
for these tossed ends I picked from the road,
and maybe just a flick of your lighter
in the time it takes to roll me a smoke.
Can you hear the sirens blow
well I pray I'm never goin there again
cos I've been walkin these streets alone
since they set me up and took me in.
The young boy he robbed the dope house, see,
and they got him good like they'll get you for sure.
Stuck 'im in the belly and they shot him in the back
with a black powder bullet from a forty four.
He was lyin there a moanin an a groanin
so I called for help to the folks around
and I was tryin to do my best for the boy
as he lay there dyin on the ground.
The police come and they hauled me in
cos they'd no one else there to stick it on.
and they bailed me outa the Tennessee Pen
but it broke me just to cover the bond.
I come home from work one evening
to find they'd cleared me outa house and home
turning everything upside down and even
the plate my kid was eatin from.
In Nashville city there's a heap o hard luck
If you head downtown to the tin-pan trap,
there's a cowboy singin for a million bucks
the story of his achey heart.
But if you can spare me a paper
and a flick o the lighter if yu'd be so kind
in the time it takes to roll me a smoke
I'd be glad to tell you mine.
© 2014 Gina Paola Ritch.
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7. |
Lonesome Road Blues
02:32
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LONESOME ROAD BLUES
By the hand of the devil
I've rambled and roamed
but the hand of the angel
guides me home.
Guides me home
where I belong,
for the hand of the angel
can do no wrong.
It's a lonesome road
that I've been on,
manys a day
has been and gone,
it takes me to
the great unknown,
turn around
and it takes me home.
By the hand of the devil
I've rambled and roamed
but the hand of the angel
guides me home.
Guides me home
where I belong,
for the hand of the angel
can do no wrong.
It's a lonesome road
through town to town
and I still don't know
which way I'm bound,
whichever way
it's bound to end,
I'm bound to lose Lord
or I'm bound to win.
© Gina Paola Ritch 1987
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8. |
A Week In A Redlight Bed
02:47
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A WEEK IN A REDLIGHT BED
Spent a week in a redlight bed
trying to find a place to find my head
I found God
but left him to his business yes I did.
Spent a week in a redlight bed
forgetting things I wished I'd said
when its far too late
and the talking's pointless anyway.
Wait for me, like I've waited my whole life to find
a love that I can see
that won't just fall like a rose in the wind.
Spent a week without a care
just falling in love with her
and she would have loved me too she said
but couldn't remember the way
Spent a week and everything I had
but being left for broke is not so bad
when you've been left before
with a whole lot less than a redlight bed.
Wait for me, like I've waited my whole life to find
a love that I can see
won't just fall like a rose in the wind,
Dance for me, dance like the moonlight on the water tonight
like the love that I can see,
is a love that's going to make it alright.
Spent a week in a redlight bed
lookin for a place to find my head
I found God
but left him to his business yes I did..
© Gina Paola Ritch 2015
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9. |
Lordy Lord Blues
02:59
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LORDY LORD BLUES.
Standing with a hat at my feet
singing for enough to eat
Lordy Lord, you know I couldn't ask for more.
Sittin with a clock in my hands
and a head that won't unwind
Lordy Lord, I just can't believe anymore.
and it's enough to drive you crazy
anyway that I think about it now
oh Lordy Lord.
Most times you know it seems
that I've been livin the ghost of a dream
Lordy, lord I just don't know who I saw
The clouds I always rode
for the sunny side that showed
Lordy Lord I Just can't believe anymore.
and it's enough to drive you crazy
anyway that I think about it now
oh Lordy Lord.
I get up and I get low
I'm the queen of the medicine show,
Lordy Lord, we're all cookin something for sure.
Lordy Lord, I just can't believe anymore.
Met a girl who heard the angels sing
all she saw was psychiatric wings
Oh Lordy Lord, i can't believe anymore.
and it's enough to drive you crazy
anyway that I think about it now
oh Lordy Lord.
I see demons she seeks God
I'm at evens she's at odds
Lordy Lord I just can't believe anymore
I spilt coffee all over the stove
tryin to forget the one I love
Lordy Lord I just can't believe anymore.
© Gina Paola Ritch 2016
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10. |
The Ballad Of Thirty One
03:31
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THE BALLAD OF THIRTY ONE
Stagger John was only thirty one
when he passed away on the old chaise longue
drank so much that his legs had gone
he lay six months on the old chaise longue
he shook so bad that he couldn't speak
and they fed him lamb rib twice a week
old dogs chewed the knuckle bones
from his hands that hung from the old chaise longue
dying for a bottle to burn his tongue
and that golden moment on the old chaise longue
wiped his mouth on the back of his cuff
lips so dry that the skin peeled off
lips that whispered the saddest song
with his body twisting on the old chaise longue
reaching out with a desperate moan
I stood and stared at the old chaise longue
I gave him whiskey, right or wrong
then walked away from the old chaise longue
for I saw myself with my luck real done
wasting away on the old chaise longue
but I had luck, and John had none
that day he died on the old chaise longue..
© Gina Paola Ritch 2016
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YOU KEEP ME WRITING LOVE SONGS
I hold on
to you and your kiss
long after you've gone
because that is all that there is
its all I can do
and there's nothing else
it's all I can wish
And there is just nothing else
to keep me writing love songs.
I stood for a while
for a while with you
in the smoke where the flames licked red
as I smiled at the burning boats
and I smiled
at the bridges ahead
I smiled at the bridges ahead
to keep me writing love songs.
I still look for you
step out of bed
and feel the empty space where you lay
where I turn to
the side that you left and I bathe
and bathe in the warmth of your place
bathe in the warmth of your place
that keeps me writing love songs.
I wake at nights alone
to feel you there
and touch to my skin
of the soft cascade of your hair
in the heat where we cling
together as one
where we clung together as one
that keeps me writing love songs.
I hold on
to you and your kiss
long after you've gone
because that is all that there is
and it's all I can do
and all I could wish
it's all I have to hold on to
to keep me writing love songs.
© Gina Paola Ritch 2016
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12. |
Song For Lise
03:21
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SONG FOR LISE
Who won the heart
who won the heart,
tell me who won the heart of the sea?
The one with the spirit of the changing winds,
she won the heart of the sea.
And who won the heart
who won the heart
tell me who won the heart of the wind?
The one who faced the tempest with a calm in her eye,
she won the heart of the wind.
What will she share with the sea?
A highway of diamonds scattered by the moon,
and what will she share with the wind?
The freedom of the breeze blowing soft upon the flame.
who won the heart
who won the heart,
tell me who won the heart of the sun?
The one whose smile was a rainbow in the storm,
she won the heart of the sun.
and who won the heart
who won the heart
tell me who won the heart of the night?
The one who laid bare all her soul to the dream,
she won the heart of the night.
and what will she share with the sun?
The lustre of her eye that shines like coffee beans,
and what will she share with the night?
The slow sweet kiss of surrender to the light.
And when will we know the one who won the heart?
When the dawn paints her smile with a palette of stars,
then you’ll know, yes you’ll know,
you will know, yes, you’ll know
the one who won the heart.
© Gina Paola Ritch 2004
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13. |
Heart On My Sleeve
03:21
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HEART ON MY SLEEVE
I wore my heart on my sleeve
carried yours as the greatest part of me
Sha la la la la, Sha la la
I wore my heart on my sleeve
so you might know everything you meant to me
Sha la la la la, Sha la la
How I wish there was a way
that I could say
I misunderstood
You don't know how hard I've tried
you don't know how long I've looked
I wore my heart on my sleeve
It was yours to treat as you pleased
Sha la la la la, Sha la la
I wore my heart on my sleeve
Never thought you'd leave me down on my knees
Sha la la la la
I wore my heart on my sleeve
All I asked for was honesty
Sha la la la la, Sha la la
How I wish there was a way
that I could say
I misunderstood
You don't know how hard I've tried
you don't know how long I've looked
I wore my heart on my knees
where you left me there with the dream
When you almost broke the dreamer in me
Sha la la la la, Sha la la
© Gina Paola Ritch 2019
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14. |
Wide Blue Ocean Blues
02:11
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TO SING A FREE SONG FOREVER NEW
(For Victor Jara)
In that little part of the city
in El Estadio de Chile
with the five thousand waiting to die
your song won't end
in the silence and cries.
The rest of the world turns a blind eye
to that room and the lamp where it shines
in the faces of those who shall never return.
Arms to supply
is its only concern.
From that little part of the city
is an echo of what you have written
with the five thousand souls disappeared
in your last days
of the hope from the fear.
They smashed your hands and mocked you to play
then bloodied and beaten you stood like they said
with the guitar in your broken hands,
and there for the people,
for the people you sang
and they shot you down
but your song was a free song.
They can silence someone with their bullets and their guns
but they can't silence that silence for long
until it bursts and opens its wings
to fly and fly
for your song is a free song
to fly and fly
for your song is a free song
to fly and fly
forever new.
© Gina Paola Ritch 2017
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16. |
Thinking Of You
02:55
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THINKING OF YOU
I’ve been thinking of you
every waking hour,
and there’s nothing I can do
to stop myself from going over,
over and over again, one thousand different things
I’ve thought about you.
I’ve been thinking of you
and chances I let slip away,
in moments that you knew
when I couldn’t find the words to say
the things I’ve told myself A hundred times
and many more today,
about you.
I’ve been thinking of you
after all the years that passed
I held it as they flew
like a stolen photograph,
or something that was never mine
but hidden with the secrets in my heart
about you.
I’ve been thinking of you
far away somewhere,
wishing that you knew
But it’s not something I can share
for I don’t see that you would want to hear
how much I really care
about you.
I’ve been thinking of you
In all the sleepless nights I dwell,
just searching for a clue
or any little thing to tell
if you ever thought of me, as well,
just once in the way that I’ve thought
about you.
Gina Paola Ritch 2013
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17. |
Shine Your Light On Me
02:44
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SHINE YOUR LIGHT ON ME
Your eyes
I know your eyes tonight,
I can see them in the darkness shine
Burning through the heart of night
Like a diamond in the candle
soft light of a candle
soft light of a candle
and who
could ever hold a candle to you?
Your smile
I know your smile tonight
I can touch it as my fingers slip,
reaching out to you tonight
like moonlight on the water
dancing like the shadows
softer than the shadows
and who
could ever cast a shadow on you?
Tonight, you shine a light that I can see
let it shine down on me,
you shine a light that I can see.
Your eyes
I know your eyes tonight,
I can see them in the darkness shine
Burning through the heart of night
Like a diamond in the candle
soft light of a candle
soft light of a candle
and who
could ever hold a candle to you?
(mid 8)
Tonight, you shine a light that I can see
let it shine down on me,
you shine a light that I can see.
your love
I know your love tonight
burning through this heart of mine
burning in my heart a while
like lovers light a candle
a moment like the candle
shines a moment like the candle
but who
could ever shine that moment like you?
Tonight, you shine a light that I can see
let it shine down on me,
you shine a light that I can see.
Tonight, you shine a light that I can see
let it shine down on me,
you shine a light that I can see.
© 2013 Gina Paola Ritch
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A LONG TIME GONE
Free as the wind
down the road I’ve blown
dragging the chains of a freedom known
by someone always on the run
I’ll just keep going
for there's not a place I don't see you
and all those days we knew a long time gone.
This road I’m on
is a one way track
and I don’t care what tomorrow holds
I’ll take each day as each day comes
and won’t look back
but when I do, it's back to you
and all those days we knew a long time gone.
Days we knew a long time gone... so long
Days we knew a long time gone... so long
For there isn’t a day
when a scent in the air
the sun on my skin
the autumn chill
or the cold of winter in my bones
no, there isn’t a thing
that doesn’t take me back to you
and all those days we knew
a long time gone.
And there isn’t a time
when the sigh of spring
the lazy haze
of a summer’s day
the whistle of the wind and a song
no, there isn’t a thing
that doesn’t take me back to you
and all those days we knew
a long time gone.
I’ll sail these seas
and I’ll cross these lands
to new horizons moving on
to whatever lies beyond
down a road so long,
until the day I say so long to you
and to all those days we knew a long time gone.
© Gina Paola Ritch 2013
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19. |
Adivisory Bot
00:22
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