Midnight Tonight

(Midnight Tonight)

Taking is slow while the music is easy

(Midnight Tonight)

Take on the silence, Take on the silence

(Midnight Tonight)

Out in the dark the music is sleeping

(Midnight Tonight)

Taking it easy, Taking it easy

(Midnight Tonight)

From the tops of the trees to the bottom of this salt sea

(Midnight Tonight)

Take on the silence, Take on the silence


Take on the silence

And load up the canvas


Melody Maestro

What do they talk about Mother?
When they talk about Uncle?
Do they talk about me
Like I don’t know no better?

The world knows nothing
If we don’t know of eachother
Turn up the lights tonight

Bring out the Melody Maestro
And every beat til Sunday
Put them out on the lawn
and let them catch those trade winds

The world knows nothing
If we don’t know of eachother
Turn up the lights tonight

For Solomon Linda/ Turn up the lights tonight
For Ibrahim Ferrer/ Turn up the lights tonight
For Ros Sothea/ Turn up the lights tonight
For Elias McDaniel/ Turn up the lights tonight

Fly Miriam (Table Mountain)

Someday when I awake

Someday when I awake

On top of Table Mountain

On top of Table Mountain


Like old pieces of eight
That we found in the dirt

Fly Miriam fly


We knew what it was
But not what it was worth

Fly Miriam fly


And the ages around us 

All gave her praise

Fly Miriam fly


For the sound of her voice
But not what she said

Fly Miriam fly


On that disc with her name 

Full of old 78’s

 Fly Miriam fly


I’d fallen in love 

On our first date

Fly Miriam fly


Though I don’t know a lick 

Of any Xhosa clicks

Fly Miriam fly


The words that she spoke
Went straight to my soul

Fly Miriam fly


Is that a weight of mine?

To sing against injustices

If your whole life

The whole world
Has always let you down

Always drug you around

Always left you there to drown

Someday when I awake

Someday when I awake

On top of Table Mountain

On top of Table Mountain


The Mythic West

Lonesome is the call of the six-stringer
When long are the shadows on his desert
In the West, the mythic West

Tall grow the tales written day by day
To the lowly old tempo of a four-beat-gait
In the West, the mythic West

A timeless wail
echoes through the canyon
Of a dry river bed
and back into the ages

A rusted old sun for a tea cup moon
If he’s quick on the draw, he’ll see it again soon
In the West, the mythic West

(2026 verse)

High up on the plains of old Mexico

Real rough riders out gunning for gold

In the West, the mythic West

credits


Ridin' High

We are alright in here

Ridin’ high, Ridin’ high

We are alright in here

Ridin’ high, Ridin’ high

And when we get to the top

And we’re looking down

We keep holding on, holding on

Holding on, holding on

And when we get to the top

We’ll be looking down

When we get to the top

We’ll be looking down

If they’re armed to the teeth

We’ll be looking down

If they’re armed to the teeth

We’ll be looking down

If they bust through the doors

We’ll sing out loud

If they bust through the doors

We’ll sing out loud

Cuz we’re not giving up

We’ll sing out loud!

Not giving up

We’ll sing out loud!

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