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Another man done gone. [3x}
Down to New Orleans,
Another man done gone.

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The Land That I Love
©2009, Scott Ainslie. All rights reserved.

For Grecia Cruz, who crossed into the Tohono O’odham Reservation desert and was lost June 23, 2007.

I go to the market – in the town, ‘ I was born.
It’s full of cheap clothes from China – and American corn.
But we have a small farm – that we water with tears.
How can we compete? The gringo farms are so big. Now we cannot stay here. Continue Reading

(Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf)
1929

No one to talk with. All by myself.
No one to walk with. But I’m happy on the shelf.
Ain’t misbehavin’,
I’m savin’ my love for you.
(For you, for you, for you.) Continue Reading

(John Newton)

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now I’m found;
Was blind but now I see. Continue Reading

©1997, Scott Ainslie

Push me to the ground, Try and keep me down
I’m gonna get up!
Treat me like a slave, Put me in my grave,
I’m gonna get up!
Throw me into jail, With no money for my bail
I’m gonna get up!
You know you’re bound to die, When you come into this life,
You gotta get up. Continue Reading

(Don Raye-Gene DePaul/MCA, Inc.)

You don’t know what love is until you’ve learned the meaning of the Blues.
Until you’ve loved a love you had to lose:
You don’t know what love is. Continue Reading

Captain got a way he got to stop
O’ waking me up at four o’clock.
All o’ you old, long time rounders,
You Better Lie Down. Continue Reading

(Robert Johnson)
Music & Media, Intl.

When you’ve got a good friend that will stay right by your side. (2x)
Give her all your spare time. Love and treat her right. Continue Reading

lyrics by Scott
Ainslie ©2003,
music by Al Pettaway ©2001

I will not fall.
I will never fall again.
I will stand on the bridge rail
And jump in the wind. Continue Reading

(Oliver Wallace, Ned Washington)
1941

I’ve seen a peanut stand, heard a rubber band
seen a needle that winked its eye
But I do believe I will have seen ev’rything
When I see a elephant fly. Continue Reading