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(c) 2007 Doug Newman
Wish You Knew
I heard your name in conversation
Seemed fine as usual and busy too
Been quite awhile since I remembered
Wish you knew how much I still love you
I climbed a tree up on the river bluff
Took me half the day just to find it
It’s got the prettiest view
And a seat for two
Wish you knew how much I still love you
It’s true you can loose your love in a thousand ways
But you can’t keep your heart in some dusty box forever
I’ll be blamed if it’ll make me blue
But I just wish you knew how much I still love you
Interlude
Sometimes I almost hear us laughin’
But I don’t let it make me blue
It almost seems a shame we’re happy
Wish you knew how much I still love you
Chorus
by Doug and Dwight Newman
© 1984, 2006 Sandthistle Music / ASCAP
I Can't Lose Her Now
She woke up fumblin’, lookin’ for another cover, she said her feet
were cold
I know I should get up, the pilot light’s out again
But I lay here listenin’ to this December wind
And all she knows is she sure could use me now
When I was younger I used to dream, I used to wonder, tryin’ to
picture this
I never imagined this kind of aching cold
I don’t know how it happened but we’re finally gettin’ old
And all I know is I can't lose her now
I hear her whisperin’ in her sleep-
Or is it my imagination?
Maybe I almost feel asleep, maybe she never said a word
Maybe there's no explanation
The early morning city sounds, through our window, bring us back
again
The frost in the air was never quite like this
And all I know is I won't lose her now
All I know is I won't lose her now
by Dwight Newman
(c) 2007 Sandthistle Music / ASCAP
Country Bumpkin
Sittin' in the corn
She and I
Watchin' the geese
Fly on by in the sky up above
Together in love
Oh she's my pumpkin
And I'm her country bumpkin
Walkin' below
A blue harvest moon
Down by the lake
We heard a loon that was crooning a toon
Above to the moon
Oh yes she's my pumpkin
And I'm her country bumpkin
Will she still need me
When I'm far away
Should any doubts about her
Care to come my way
Walkin' along
An old gravel road
We found a toad
And let it go in the road oh no
The car squished the toad
Oh but she's my pumpkin
And I'm her country bumpkin
Chorus
by Doug Newman
(c) 1986 Sandthistle Music / ASCAP
The Rain Fell
The rain fell all night long
Just like a simple song
That carries your blues away
It fell without a sound
Falling to the ground
To wash the night away
There were the chickens and the cows
There were the flowers pulled from the ground
There was the water in my house
The cats had all gone as quite as a mouse
Hmmm hmmm hmmmm
The rain fell all night long
Like a simple song
That carries your blues away
It fell without a sound
Falling to the ground
To wash the night away
Chorus
by Doug Newman
© 1991 Sandthistle Music / ASCAP
The Coyote and the Prairie Dog
Now I'm a coyote livin' on the range
Tryin' to do my best to keep from getting' mange
One day when I was out wanderin' around
I came upon a prairie dog town
Down their holes they scurried away
As I came up to them all I could say was
Awooo the prairie dog's my brother
Awooo the prairie dog's my brother
'Cause I'm a vegetarian coyote
I proposed that we could find a mutual accord
Whereby their trust in me they would and could afford
To spite the wicked hawk on wing that swoops out of the sky
And no more run from shadows of clouds floating by
For this all manner of bug and root and berry
They bring me in a den in which we would be merry
Awoo the prairie dog's my brother
Awoo the prairie dog's my brother
'Cause I'm a vegetarian coyote….
At least for a couple of days
by Doug Newman
© 1997 Sandthistle Music / ASCAP
A Country Boy and Girl
On the farm as a boy
I'd run through fields
and dream of her
and dream of her
and dream of her
A sixty-
we'd cruise along
and dream of her
and dream of her
and dream of her
A country boy filled with country dreams
A country girl gave them all to me
A baby's born and before long
she runs through fields
we dream with her
and dream with her
and dream with her
Interlude
An eighty-
He comes to call
we dream with her
And dream with her
And dream with her
A country boy filled with country dreams
A country girl gave them all to me
by Doug Newman
© 1984 Sandthistle Music / ASCAP
