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Rhythm and the Rhyme

Mack Bailey  (Spa Creek Music ASCAP)

Moonrise in the evening, sunrise in the dawn

And the circle of change goes on and on.

Children see the cycle of growing through the years

As other generations ease their fears.

Chorus:

And the circle of change goes on and on,

With the passing of the seasons and time.

Tomorrow’s just a yesterday for the future,

As we live out the rhythm and the rhyme.

Look into the mirror, see reflections of our friends.

And the circle of change never ends

Some are still the present, Some fade into the past

Some are loves that seemed they’d always last.

Chorus

The rhythm is the motion as we live our day to day,

And the circle of change shows the way.

The rhyme is in the souls we meet and those we try to hide,

And the circle of change becomes our guide.

Chorus

Chorus

Shadow of a Man

Mack Bailey, Tim Malchak (Spa Creek Music ASCAP) (Nightstorm Music BMI)

Time is so unforgiving,

It leaves a memory heavy on your heart.

As we go through life just living

The feeling remains though we’re apart.

You stole my breath when I first met you

Your eyes rained softly on my soul.

Though the years have passed I can’t forget you,

Like a fool caught beneath love’s undertow.

Chorus:

Fate has a strange way about her,

Never giving up her secrets or plans.

Love’s just a word without you

And I’m just a shadow of a man.

I heard about your life in Colorado,

And how some dreams got lost along the way;

Broken promises and false bravado

Was a cruel price you had to pay.

Chorus

Bridge:

The hardest part of being your lover

Was living with the fear of letting go.

I just saw you again for the first time

And just like then, my heart stood still.

It reminded me of just how much I loved you

And through it all, I guess I always will.

Chorus

Love’s just a word without you

And I’m just a shadow of a man.

So Glad We Had This Time

Mack Bailey  (Spa Creek Music ASCAP)

Thank you for comin’ out tonight

We had a chance to share a song or two

When the guitars are put away, and it’s time to plan for future days,

We’re (I’m) so glad we’ve (I’ve) had this time with you.

I consider myself lucky to have the friends I have,

To play and sing my songs the whole night through

And in every song I sing, all the inspiration that you bring,

And I only want to give it back to you.

Thank you for comin’ out tonight

We had a chance to share a song or two

When the guitars are put away, and it’s time to plan for future days,

We’re (I’m) so glad we’ve (I’ve) had this time with you.

I’m so glad I had this time with you.

(goes into the song “Circle” by Harry Chapin)

Star Light

Mack Bailey  (Spa Creek Music ASCAP)

Chorus:

Star light, star bright,

Please grant the wish I wish tonight,

That peace on Earth fills all men’s hearts

And let it be tonight.

The story that I’m always told

Of wise men bringing gold

To honor and adore a child

A baby, meek and mild.

Chorus.

A baby born some years ago,

The son of God brought here,

To spread the word of brotherhood,

Why can’t it last all year?

Chorus.

Bless Mom and Dad and those in need,

And make their hearts be light.

And fill them for the whole year through

And let it start tonight.

Chorus.

Sunny Skies  (and Lullabies)

Mack Bailey  (Spa Creek Music ASCAP)

The Place They Call Block Island

John Greenleaf Whittier (words) and Mack Bailey (music)  1990

Leagues north as fly the gull and hawk,

Point Judith watches with eye of hawk

Leaks out the beacon flames Montauk

A place they call Block Island.

Circled by waters that never freeze,

Beaten by billow and swept by breeze,

Lieth the island of Maneses,

The place they call Block Island. The place they call Block Island.

But in summer time when pool and pond,

Held in the laps of valleys fond,

Are blue as the glimpses of sea beyond, 

The place they call Block Island.

When the hills are sweet with the briar rose,

And hid in the warm soft dells and cloves,

Flowers the mainland rarely knows,

The place they call Block Island.

No greener valleys the sun invite,

No smoother beaches, no sea birds light,

No blue waves shatter to foam or white,

The place they call Block Island. The place they call Block Island.

They're circling over their narrow range,

Quaint traditions and legend strange,

Live on unchallenged and know no change,

The place they call Block Island.  The place they call Block Island.

Through Your Eyes 

Mack Bailey  (Spa Creek Music ASCAP)

Through your eyes I can see memories long forgotten

Through your eyes I can see a different point of view

Through your eyes I see the reasons for the tears upon your cheek

And a laugh or smile to chase those tears away.

Through your eyes I can see the colors of the rainbow

Through your eyes I can see a castle in the sand

Through your eyes I see the jungle in the grass above your knees

And the magic and the warmth of holding hands.

Through your eyes.

Through my eyes everything's so fast

With headlines and deadlines and always on the go.

Through my eyes I'll try to make it last,

But tell me, where does time go?

Through your eyes I can see the thunder of the sky,

Through your eyes I can see the beauty of the rain,

Through your eyes I see the need to stop and treasure precious times,

For these moments will never come again.

Through your eyes.

Through my eyes everything's so fast

With headlines and deadlines, and always on the go.

Through my eyes I'll try to make it last,

But tell me, where does time go?

Through your eyes I can see the colors of the rainbow,

Through your eyes I can see a castle in the sand,

Through your eyes I can see long forgotten memories,

And the magic and the warmth of holding hands.

Oh, there's magic and warmth in holding hands.

Time to Time

Mack Bailey and J. Crytzer (Spa Creek Music ASCAP)

I find from time to time a thought makes me realize

That all my days pass by without you.

And I find from time to time that you sneak into my mind

And all I feel are the things I never said to you,

I never said to you.

I find things deep inside I thought long ago had died

And still they’re there and seem to haunt me

Little things that you said, while you held me close in bed

Do they live in you like they live in me?

They still live in me.

Chorus:

From time to time your laughter fills my mind and you take her place inside me.

From time to time I’ll often realize that you’ll always be here with me,

And I know my life will never be the same without you.

As the sunlight fills the sky the woman lying by my side

Sleeps with love that she needs from me.

Though she’s always in my heart sometimes when the lovin’ starts

Your memory seems to steal her place beside me,

And you’re in my arms beside me.

Chorus

Chorus

I find from time to time a thought makes me realize

That all my days pass by without you.

And I find from time to time that you sneak into my mind

And all I feel are the things I never said to you,

I never said to you.

United We Stand

Mack Bailey  (Spa Creek Music ASCAP)

(Written after September 11, 2001)

We’ve come to a cross roads, we’ve been here before,

To stand and fight together, not be divided any more.

We’re all the same people when the sky turns to gray,

This is our chance to prove it, to stand up and say:

United we stand, across this great land

Every color of the human rainbow, Arm in arm, hand in hand,

Through the darkest of hours our flag will still wave,

And our voices will rise for America, United we stand.

(and it goes into, “America, the Beautiful”)

What Would You Do

Mack Bailey, Lauren Bailey (Spa Creek Music)

Chorus:

What would you do if you were in my place

If the tears were on your face and your love was as true?

What I ask of you ain’t so hard to see

If you can just tell me, now what would you do?

The fight that we had don’t hurt half as deep

As me here awake, watching you sleep.

Well tell me your heart don’t hurt you at all

While the love we built around us starts to crumble and fall.

Chorus

Bridge:

Is it wrong for me to stand up for myself

Well, can you blame me for protecting my heart?

‘Cuz when the morning light comes we both realize

That no words at all hurt deeper than lies.

And I’ll take a stand and fight ‘til you see

That you talk with your heart when you’re talking to me.

Chorus

What would you do, oh, baby, what would you do?

When I Dream

Mack Bailey  (Spa Creek Music ASCAP)

The sun comes up; I don’t want to open my eyes

It’s a harsh reality; I don’t want to realize

The face I see in the mirror is not the “me” that I remember.

Chorus:  But at night I can dream

I can make believe I’m beautiful again.

I can dance, I can laugh,

I’m the “me” that I remember, When I dream at night.

These hands that once could write, letters and works of art

Page after page of poetry, or scriptures from the heart

Now I’m unsteady and failing, unable to grasp a pen.

Chorus:  But at night I can write

Volumes and volumes of reading delight

Or maybe the novel I said that I’d write.

I’m the “me” that I remember, When I dream at night.

Now this hallway is my home; People pass right by my chair.

Sometimes I see a smile, But mostly I’m not there.

I long once again to be needed, To mean something to someone again

Chorus:  But at night I can love

I can make believe that you’re with me again

We can dance, we can laugh,

I’m the “me” that I remember, When I dream at night.

When I dream, when I dream, when I dream . .  at night.

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