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The Edge Of The World

by Buddy Mondlock

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When I Was A Little Kid 03:36
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When I Was A Little Kid (Buddy Mondlock) When I was a little kid I’d climb up on the roof I’d lay there on my back And look up at the stars ‘cause they were proof That the world was full of mystery God and space and time And all of it was mine At least for a little while Up there by myself At the bottom of a bubble As big as the universe itself That came to rest Right where I lay At the end of every day When I was a little kid But then the bubble popped And those kinda thoughts got dropped They rolled right off that roof and never stopped Until they hit the ground Twenty one years down Never even made a sound When I was a little kid I’d balance on this fence School shoes on sharp pickets ‘Cause kids have more daring do than sense And that’s well known At least by me On my way home From school in the afternoon I’d take the secret way Back yards and bushes Like running through a maze And half way was that fence Looking like nine feet tall One day I just did it All the way across and didn’t fall When I was a little kid But that fence got knocked down When the bulldozer broke ground For the shopping mall that took a piece of my town No more secret ways Just another parking space No way to even find that place (Instrumental Break) But here I am again With a few of my old friends With a couple little kids of their own And those kids have eyes As big as summer skies And I bet they know the secret way home When I was a little kid I’d climb up on the roof I’d lay there on my back And look up at the stars ‘cause they were proof That the world was full of mystery God and space and time And all of it was mine When I was a little kid
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The Edge of the World 04:04
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The Skin 04:15
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Mud 04:07
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Mud (Guy Clark/Buddy Mondlock) Down by the creek where the water goes slow The Green Backed Heron and the Moccasin know All things come to him that waits Yet he is lost who hesitates (Life and death dancing around in the mud) The light comes down through the limbs and the leaves And dapples the water between the reeds The air tastes green the bank gets soft Right about then your shoes come off (You got to get it between your toes, the mud) Mud pie, mud in your eye Mud on a snake bite don’t you die You take a little rain, take a little dirt You make a little mud - get it on your shirt Earth and water make a mighty fine mix Some say that was God’s best trick He went down to the creek to play Made girls and boys and laughed all day (Some say we all just crawled out of the mud) Mud pie, mud in your eye Mud on a snake bite don’t you die You take a little rain, take a little dirt You make a little mud - get it on your shirt When I die please bury me Down by this old muddy creek Let the crawfish have their way It’s mud to mud and that’s okay (We’re all just slogging through the mud) Mud pie, mud in your eye Mud on a snake bite don’t you die You take a little rain, take a little dirt You make a little mud Wipe it on your shirt © 2002 by EMI April Music, Inc./Major Bob Music/Laughing Guy Music
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Fence In A Storm 03:34
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Fence In A Storm (Buddy Mondlock) Fence post standing there weather worn Barbed wire up against a summer storm The wind comes up The sky blows around The fence stands still While the rain comes down Everything happens at the very same time But people want to make the world wait in line This comes first That not yet But it rains when it rains And the world gets wet CHORUS I don’t know Why everything don’t go slower I can’t see But somehow I’m supposed to show her She’s so tired and it makes her sad Walking ‘round all the time feeling bad She had a plan She had it down But the world keeps knocking That girl around She knows money can’t buy you love But love can’t always keep you’re head above Waterfalls Come crashing down And the girl in the barrel Hears that roaring sound (CHORUS) Fence post never seems to have a care Wonder how long that fence been there Three tornados and a hurricane The wind blows through And that fence remains (CHORUS 2X) ©2007 by Major Bob Music, Inc./Laughing Guy Music (ASCAP)
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How It Goes 04:36
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The Birds 02:47
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The Birds (Buddy Mondlock) The birds move with grace and ease Dodge wires and branches with no fear Then hover high above the trees The masters of the atmosphere Every feather in it’s place Form and function balancing Strong as steel and fine as lace To carve the air with a flashing wing Some wear their colors on their sleeves Yellow, red and indigo Some are hiding in the leaves They’d rather be invisible The birds move with grace and ease... I love to watch them work the room Cool and full of confidence How I wish I could sing that tune But I observe from a distance The birds move with grace and ease Dodge wires and branches with no fear Then hover high above the trees The masters of the atmosphere ©2007 by Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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Nobody Knows Nothing 03:56
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Nobody Knows Nothing (Jim Tullio/Buddy Mondlock) CHORUS Nobody knows nothing Nobody figured it out Nobody knows nothing Nobody knows what it’s all about Everything you see around here’s for sale Everyones’s telling you the check’s in the mail Preacher, teacher and president Is what they say really what they meant? You hope it is ‘cause it’s already spent It’s gone (CHORUS) God made the world in seven days Big bang came along and blew it all away Newton, Einstein and Paul Dirac The quantum Farmer’s Almanac You think it’s real then it fades to black Then it’s gone Long, long gone It’s gone Long, long gone (CHORUS) All you got when you get here is DNA All you leave behind is what you do and say In between it’s crazy eights When to jump and when to wait It all comes down to love and faith Then it’s gone Long, long gone It’s gone Long, long gone Nobody knows nothing... ©2007 by Tools Music (BMI)/Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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Big Fish, Shallow Water 03:50
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Big Fish, Shallow Water (Buddy Mondlock) It’s flat out here and telephone poles grow All along the road to Refugio Copano Bay turns brown and grey When a norther blows in To the sun brown family fishing in the shallows I’m just wind and the sound of wheels That don’t slow down, going ‘round and ‘round And it never ends CHORUS Try to pull a big fish Out of shallow water Somewhere Under there Past the twilight towns through the white strip windshield Billboards burn in the winter wheat fields Stealing fire from electrical wires That dim the stars Wash me down ‘til I’m bathed in the blue light Television glow of a motel midnight Sight unseen you can buy your dreams With a credit card (CHORUS) In the dishwater dawn it’s NBC And an IED and a casualty count Mountain of youth The president’s truth in a body bag Meanwhile there’s a family dreaming on their new home Fishing by the road with everything they own In an Olds 88 with Mexican plates And an American flag (CHORUS) ©2007 by Fire of Change Music (ASCAP)
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Understudies 03:56
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Hour By Hour 03:31
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Baby Cries 03:02
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Cowboys Born Out of Their Time 04:03
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I Count You My Friend 03:57
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I Count You My Friend (Buddy Mondlock) CHORUS I count you my friend Nothing complicated about it I count you my friend Will this change? I doubt it I guess I knew you all along Even though it ain’t been long since we met But something tells me I’m not wrong Friends like you I don’t forget And have you noticed how the light has changed A little brighter every day now it seems I tell you now that’s nothing strange It looks that way when it’s shining off dreams (CHORUS) When the going gets a little rough And they’re lining up to box our ears We won’t even give ‘em our best stuff We’ll send ‘em back in cry baby tears And when the beauty of this world won’t sleep And it tries to wake us up and make us cry We won’t be afraid to laugh and weep We’ll be safe in each other’s eyes (CHORUS 2X) ©2007 by Major Bob Music, Inc./Laughing Guy Music (ASCAP)

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Buddy Mondlock Nashville, Tennessee

Buddy Mondlock writes songs. He does it so well that some great songwriters have recorded his songs on their own albums. Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith, and Janis Ian, to name just a few. You might’ve heard his song “The Kid” (recorded by David Wilcox, Peter, Paul and Mary and Cry, Cry, Cry) and maybe even sung it yourself around a campfire. He draws you into his world. ... more

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