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       This next song doesn't really belong in the collection other than it reflects my general philosophy, and I am, after all, a member of my family. I wrote Man of Leisure while in college in Frostburg, Maryland around 1975. I recently rediscovered the song and have just recorded it on my new digital recording setup. I hope you like it. If you don't, well I don't really care…
    Written in 1980 and recorded in 1981 Lazy Love is a love song dedicated to my wife, who by the way, is singing the alto harmony part in the chorus. This song was recorded at Bias Studios in Springfield, Virginia.
    Originally written as a blessing for Ezra Newkirk in 1977, Little Eyes applies to all little people and some big ones as well. I'm told families are full of big and little people; consequently, the song appears in this collection

   Written to my son as a sort of advanced lesson in the facts of life, No, Means No! is good advice for any guy in love with a girl, or man in love with a woman, or bull aardvark in love with a cow aardvark. You get the idea.
   William Wayne Dyke (aka Windy Wayne), who introduced me to salted beer and phrenology when I was only four years old, was my great-grandfather. Though I only knew him for a short while, this Man That Nobody Owned made a big impression on me. I wrote this song while in college.
   I never knew my mother's mother because she died well before I was born. Alma Mae is about how actions that we take can have lasting and unforeseen effects on those who love. I recently wrote this song to remind people to think carefully before they act selfishly.


 


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