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Good Old Times

Do You Understand

St James Infirmary Blues

Good Looking Good

Think Of You - Words & Music © Peter Bensen

Time Carries On, words and music © Peter Erik Bensen.

Town To Town

Paint The Sky

Poor Pitiful Me

God Bless America, the famous patriotic tune by Irving Berlin, arranged for acoustic 12 string guitar. With additional lyrics by Peter Bensen.

Going Home

Summertime

The Star Spangled Banner

Good Old Times, performed on StreetJelly.com June 5,2014.

Anybody Seen My Girl Anybody seen me baby? If you have please call now maybe We can get together again Or maybe just be friends Anybody seen my girl? Anybody seen my honey? She ran off, took all my money We can get together again Or maybe just be friends Anybody seen my girl? It's been so long I have forgotten how to love her It gets so long, you know I'm only thinking of her You know I want to love you each and every day If there's a chance, you know, to find you There's got to be a way Anybody seen some trouble? I got mine, and by the double We can get together again Or maybe just be friends Anybody seen my girl? If you ever see Miss Lucy Let me know, I'm not too choosy We can get together again Or maybe just be friends Anybody seen my girl? Anybody seen that lazy, Good for nothing, drives me crazy We can get together again Or maybe just be friends Anybody seen my girl? We can get together again So that my world not ends Anybody seen my girl? Anybody seen my girl? Anybody seen my girl? © Peter Bensen

Do You Understand? Do you understand? Though you didn't make me cry: And you didn't even try, to understand me. Me and my crazy ways, oh and those lazy days. We were not so far apart, from what I understand. Really didn't want to start, about the way you break my heart. To this day I wonder why. Do you understand? Didn't grant me any grace. You just up and left this place. Left me oh so far behind. And you let me down. I am not the Prince of Peace. Just you let me say my piece. And I know you didn't try, and you let me down. Maybe wander all my days, mark my words amidst the haze. I was just beside myself, you were somewhere else. I would rather be myself, than through you be someone else. To myself I must be true, and to you I lie: If I said I didn't care, if I didn't want you there. Doesn't matter anyway, now you're gone away. If I said without remorse, words I say but can't enforce. Would you love me anyway? If it wasn't true? As those lies were left unsaid; If you lied to me to me instead, Would we be much better off? Do you understand? © Peter Bensen

Time Carries On What has been lost, what I have found; Time carries on and without a sound. Time carries on, get carried away. Time carries on, please carry the day. Once I was lost, now I have you. What am I going to do? Because time carries on. What has been done, and what there will be. Time carries on so c'est la vie. Time carries on and down to the sea. Up from the sky and what you believe. What you have done, do what you may. Time carries on, please carry the day. And still, time carries on. Time carries on, as it should be Carry me down to the sea. Carry it will, fickle as fate. Time carries on and won't wait. Carry me down, carry away All of my troubles, carry the day. Carry the load, don't let me down or astray. Once we were one, now we are two. Time carries on like I carry you. She was a girl with time on her hands. Life in her eyes, love in the sand. Never regret, and never to cry; Time carries on and on to the sky. And still time carries on, c'est la vie, carry it home to me. Never regret, and never to cry. Time carries on and on to the sky. And still time carries on. © Peter Bensen

Straight Narrow Lines

Straight Narrow Lines It happened September 11th you know When Satan met Evil and decided to blow Down two buildings as high as the sky and but now Lie in craters demolished, as if them to bow Straight narrow lines are forever erased And all the lives that are never replaced And for the evil brought into this world Only to benefit one person's good His reason was given as Palestine's poor Arabia, infidels, Saddam and more Rationale wanted a Caliph to be For his Islam, but in reality king And for the throne that was for he himself; Warrior king, rich and scholar and serf Personified blood lust in every regard Quixotic in vision with sheep by the yard When Satan met Evil they needed a goat One of ambition to row his own boat Misfortune prevented their Saddam Hussein As luck is but theirs they had one as mean Replete, immersed in his evil designs Using his God, hate, and man intertwined Completing his ploy there's a lackey or two Thousands more; Who knows exactly what's true? Nothing replaces a straight narrow line Cannot be said for the other defined Self-serving despots both greater and less Are only defined by the size of their mess When Evil suppresses the best in humanity Where sinners become son's of Hell in depravity Selfish intentions too obviously lead To Hell in a basket, their children to plead The children will cry and the innocents burn When will the mongers of power ever learn That the wages of sin are paid one and all But mostly by those who want, and want more Those by the sword who do live soon will die And as they live there, the pain will deny And as they live more with hate than with good As in a sickness that takes to the blood Blessed are prayers of the poor it is true But even so, it is never excused But just to hate and to ever deny Righteous love and to judge both your God and the sky The hammer that falls will just shape the steel It's up to us then to make it our will Lead by example, inspire by design And nothing replaces a straight narrow line © Peter Bensen

Beyond The Blue Somewhere in colors too good to be true Over the sky, beyond the blue Over the sky, where the wind blows I don't know why, and don't you know Up in the clouds so far away I'll wait for you forever a day I will be there, where I belong Don't you betray, don't you be long Over the sky, over the clouds Over alone, over the crowds Up in a castle so far away Over the sky forever a day Look at the birds, flowers, and trees No fortune there, but they are free You can as well, join the milieu Over the sky, beyond the blue Never return and never to leave All that you need is to believe Maybe today, maybe not now Only what Heaven and Earth will allow I'll wait for you beyond the skies Wherever the moment of truth will advise I'll be around whispering breeze And in the shadows watching you please Maybe someday, I don't know how When we are free, maybe not now The future is ours, I'll wait for you Over the sky, beyond the blue I'll wait for you and a new day Just set me free, what do you say? Eternity awaiting us still I don't know when, just know it will Forever is such a long time Just hold me now, tomorrow goodbye I will be there, you will be too Over the sky, beyond the blue Over the rainbow, over the stars It isn't near, it isn't far I will be there, you will be too Over the sky, beyond the blue Follow the light, follow the sky It can't be wrong, don't you deny Somewhere in colors too good to be true Over the sky, beyond the blue Where you find love, without or within Over the sky, beyond the din Somewhere in colors too good to be true Over the sky, beyond the blue © Peter Bensen

Paint The Sky Oh dear Lord, I'm feelin' blue, then I think of you For all the little things you do For me, I think of you If I had another day To think of what I want to say You paint the sky and every day Dear Lord I think of you In my measly little way I know what to say If words could do for me, for you The way they do when I break on through If I had to play guitar Until I really went that far You paint the sky and every star Dear Lord I think of you Oh dear Lord, I'm feelin' free, everything I see And every little thing in view; I know you feel it too And every day I get on by And eat my fill and see the sky You paint it every day so high Dear Lord I kiss the sky What's the point of feeling sad, you know it's not so bad For every day you've had enough Another's got it much more tough I count my blessings all the while And even find the time to smile I get enough to get me by Dear Lord I kiss the sky If anytime I send a card about that life's too hard If thoughts ever go astray Please remind me every day Forget the ones that let me go Remember what I need to know Tag along the sky is blue Dear Lord I think of you Paint the sky do what you do Dear Lord I think of you © Peter Bensen

Summertime Summertime, summertime go for a ride Tired of waiting, tired of crying Save for some other time summertime blues Roll down the highway, do what you do Do what you do and kiss the blue sky Climb up a mountain, say that you're mine Summertime, summertime give me the sky Give me tomorrow, don't say goodbye Spell me a moment in time by the sea Light up the blue sky, what will it be? Don't be forever, say that you're mine Tired of waiting, tired of crying Find me a summer place in the sky Roll down the highway, say that you're mine Summertime, summertime give me the sky Give me tomorrow, don't say goodbye Summertime, summertime walk in the rain Open the sky, will I see you again? Half the time summertime's walking the park Falling in love and waiting for dark Do what you do and go for a ride Find the girl of your dreams, don't be denied Summertime, summertime give me the sky Give me tomorrow, don't say goodbye Summertime, summertime give me the sky Give me tomorrow, don't say goodbye Spell me a moment in time by the sea Ride on a heat wave, blame it on me Follow the sun wherever it goes Ride on the breeze whenever it blows Roll down the highway, go for a day Wherever you're going, you're going my way © Peter Bensen

Think Of You