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Don’t wanna talk to nobody
I don’t wanna answer the phone
I don’t care what’s in the mailbox
Just tell ‘em nobody’s home
Can’t you see I’m excited
I got that look in my eye
I got the traveling fever
But it’ll leave by and by
Shakes me up on the highway
It make me rattle and roll
I keep looking for the way
Don’t want a turnpike toll
There’s just too much commotion
For this backwater boy
I got the traveling fever
And it don’t leave me no joy
Take me back to the Northland
Back to where I belong
Take me back to my homeland
And let me sing my song
There’s just too much commotion
For the backwater boy
I got the traveling fever
Something ‘bout Minnesota
Way down deep in my heart
A little bit of Dakota
With me from the start
I love the hills of Wisconsin
I got a little place of my own
To shake the traveling fever
Lord, I don’t wanna roam
Take me back to the Northland
Back to where I belong
You take me back to my homeland
Let me sing my song
There’s just too much commotion
For the backwater boy
I got the traveling fever
© 1981 Tommy Wiggins
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Yeah, Yeah, You
03:38
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Growing up in North Saint Paul
Insulated from it all
I thought everybody was just like me
Go to school, play some ball
Early spring ‘till the bitter fall
All in all, the boy didn’t have a clue
About you, yeah you
And every little thing about a love that’s true
Yeah, yeah, you
We grew up, we move out
‘Cuz it’s our time to twist and shout
Look at the world from a brand new point of view
Or so we think, but it ain’t right
Black’s still black and night is still night
But I’ve got a silver lining poking thru
It’s you, yeah you
And every little thing about a lover that’s true
Yeah, yeah you
I will do for you
Hang up a yellow moon is what I’m gonna do
Yeah, yeah you
Moving right along
Living out the song
Finding our own way
Each and every day
You, yeah you
And every little thing about a love that’s true
Yeah, yeah you
I will do for you
Is hang up a yellow moon, that’s what I’m gonna do
Yeah, yeah you
Yeah, yeah you
Yeah, yeah you
Yeah, yeah you
Yeah, yeah you
©2006 Tommy Wiggins
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Faded Photographs
03:57
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Cobwebs growing in the corner
The winds are blowing ‘cross the fields
All the singing birds have taken to the wing
Farmers counting up the yields
Kettle singing in the kitchen
Stoke the fire with your dreams
Button up the kids and get them off to school
Kiss the lover in your dreams
When he left, he left you heartache
Every morning brings the blue
When he left, he left you nothing left to lose
Just a couple of faded photographs of him and you
Staring out the kitchen window
You’re trying not to feel the pain
Yet you’re hoping that he’ll call you up today
‘cause It’s your birthday once again
Kettle singing in the kitchen
Stoke that fire with your dreams
Button up the kids and get them off to school
Kiss the lover in your dreams
When he left, he left you heartache
Every morning brings the blues
When he left, he left you nothing left to lose
Just a couple of faded photographs of him and you
Just a couple of faded photographs
© 1976 Tommy Wiggins
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Lee Ann
04:08
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He’s just a country boy, ordinary Joe
He got dreams like anyone, anywhere you go
He needs a hand to hold, and a pretty smile
Looking for a heart of gold, been looking for a while
Lee Ann’s a country girl with a pretty smile
Every bit her mama’s child, the same easy style
It happened on a summer night, going to the fair
No one ever touched her so, ‘till the morning air
He said “Lee Ann will you be my country girl
Lee Ann will you be my country girl
Gonna love you now, gonna take you around the world
Oh, Lee Ann will you be my country girl?”
Love takes the easy road underneath the moon
It’ll wind around your heart all the way ‘till June
In a little country church outside of town
He looked into her eyes with everyone around
He said “Lee Ann will you be my country girl
Lee Ann will you be my country girl
Gonna love you now, gonna take you around the world
My Lee Ann
Tell me it’s old fashioned, say it’s out of style
To think a love could last more than just a little while
In a little country church outside of town
He looked into her eyes with everybody around
He said “Lee Ann will you be my country girl
Lee Ann will you be my country girl
Gonna love you now, gonna take you around the world
Lee Ann
Country Girl
© 1981 Tommy Wiggins
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All the Pretty Girls
03:13
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Pretty girl, she don’t know how to choose
Nobody let’s her pay any dues
Dressing right, looking so fine
Here comes another guy to make some time
And he says “would you like to go and see a show
Hey there’s a quiet little place that I know”
A little candlelight and sparkling wine
She lets him get her where she wants him every time
All the pretty girls get the guys
Falling in love with their sweet-talking dancing eyes
You’d think by now that the boys would get wise
To all the pretty girls
Is it something that they learn in school
How to act like that and be so cool?
Every day they’re flirting with the boys in the hall
And all the guys I know are doing it to
Hey, can I meet you maybe after school
Another younger heart is heading for a fall
All the pretty girls get the guys
Falling in love with the sweet-talking dancing eyes
You’d think by now the boys would get wise
To all the pretty girls
All the pretty girls get the guys
Falling in love with their sweet-talking dancing eyes
You’d think by now that the boys would be wise
All the pretty girls
All the pretty girls
© 1985 Tommy Wiggins
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Give Me Better
04:06
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I don’t care if the sun don’t shine
‘round my house today
I don’t care if the moon don’t rise
Or if I draw my pay
Only one thing that’s on my mind
And I gotta talk to you
It won’t take long to tell you now baby
What I want you to do
Give me better, when I give you time
Got to give me better, honey I ain’t lyin’
My heart beats fast on the outside
And you’re still on the run
Give me better, I’m comin’ undone
I don’t care if a chilly wind blows
It don’t matter, no
All I want is a love that grows
Honey, don’t close the door
Tell me that your love’ll be strong
Each and every day
Tell me now that you want my lovin’
hear me when I say
The kinda lovin’ that I’m gettin’ from you
Cuts me to the bone
You had me howlin’ at the moon
Then you left me ‘lone
I could plead insanity, with nothing left to lose
This roller coaster ride with you
Is givin’ me the blues
© 1991 Tommy Wiggins/Chris Daniels
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Irreconcilable
03:53
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I refuse to hear the sound of the slamming door
Don’t wanna know the reason she’s not there anymore
Don’t go tell me that I lost everything I know
A mystery, what ever was she thinking
Irreconcilable
I can’t believe that she said she don’t even know me no more
I won’t believe her I don’t even love you’s
I’m still savoring the spark and the flame and the fire and the feeling
But not the dying ember
I could swear I hear the beating of a broken heart
Don’t go tell me that it’s mine, I won’t believe it
You could sell me just about anything that you want
But don’t you tell me
Irreconcilable
I just can’t believe there’s nothing more that we can do
Think about it, girl come on back to me and you
I’m not just tilting windmills spinning in the sky
This is real love and I don’t want to let it die
Irreconcilable
I refuse to hear the sound of that slamming door
Irreconcilable
Think about it, girl come on back to me and you
© 1999 Tommy Wiggins/Chris Daniels
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8. |
What's Goin' Down
03:21
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Same old story in every town
Everybody tryin’ to wrap their heads around
What’s goin’ down
Hard to keep gas in your car
20 dollar bill won’t take you very far
In your car
All the good jobs left this town
All the kids are hangin’ ‘round
Lookin’ like they’re lost and found
Bringin’ everybody down
Stay the course, complete the mission
Blinded by belief in your conviction
Self-fulfilled prediction
Cause-effect, truth or fiction
temperature is rising from our oil addition
Stick your drill into the sand
Gotta be some better plan
People all across the land
Are wakin’ up to take a stand
In every city and every little town
We all wanna know what’s goin’ down
Politicians jerkin’ us around
How you gonna fix the mess we’re in
Patience with you’s wearin’ thin
Keep on pushin’ us the same old run-around
What’s goin’ down
Same old story in every town
Everybody tryin’ to wrap their heads around
What’s goin’ down
Down, down, down
Down, down, down
©2008 Tommy Wiggins
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To See You Smile
03:44
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I couldn’t face the music, so I hung here at home
I reveled in the quiet of my disconnected phone
I didn’t read those headlines, or really give a damn
I just had to sit a while to think of who I am
What have I accomplished, or does it really matter
Is there any consequence to have my ego flattered
Jesus loves me, anyway at least that’s what we’re told
I’m flying past the middle on the way to getting old
But to see you smile, and laugh at something funny
To see you smile, I’ve come to understand
Just to see you smile, it is my milk and honey
And I’m your milk and honey man
Written in a love song in my younger day
The singer said he would not trade tomorrow for today
He wasn’t long on money, no he hadn’t much to share
But it was warm and sunny. And her skin was oh so fair
But to see her smile, and laugh at something funny
To see her smile, he’d come to understand
Just to see her smile
Those years are not forgotten, the song it still rings true
Money doesn’t matter, there’s enough to see us through
You can take tomorrow, and pitch it all away
I’m still not going to borrow on today
To see her smile, and laugh at something funny
To see her smile, he’s come to understand
To see you smile, laugh at something funny
To see you smile, I’ve come to understand
To see you smile
I’m your milk and honey man
© 2006 Tommy Wiggins
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Thank My Lucky Stars
03:26
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If you ask me how I got to be me
I would say that there are three
Lucky stars up in the sky
That I set my compass by
The brightest one would be her love
A life she let me be part of
A journey that I’d never dream of making
Next up on that list of three
Without whom I’d never be
Making up this song to sing
Living all the joy it bring s
Brothers back in seventy-two
When our dreams were shiny new
The Freeland boys will always be a part of me
I thank my lucky stars for shining
Down on me with perfect timing
And all I really had to do
Is sing along
I have always wanted to be
Part of something bigger than me
Maybe just a hand to hold
Is all it takes to feed your soul
Maybe if we multiply
That little act of kindness by
The fact that when you give your heart
You get back two
We can thank our lucky stars for shining
Down on us with perfect timing
And all we ever really had to do
If you ask me how I got to be me
I would say that there are three
Lucky stars up in the sky
That I set my compass by
The brightest one would be her love
Next one is the music that I’m part of
Then there’s you and me
Yeah, there’s you and me
Thank our lucky stars
©2011 Tommy Wiggins
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Tommy Wiggins Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville’s Tommy Wiggins began writing songs by kerosene lamp in a Rocky Mountain cabin. He’s been writing, recording and performing his own funky blend of folky, bluesy, country-funk ever since. Tommy recently bought a camper van and is writing songs along the road. New album in 2022 - "When My Brain Goes On Vacation." When your brain goes on vactation, where do YOU go? ... more
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