Lyric/Chord Sheets

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SONGS and KEYS
– same order as the Woodshed Song Player

Open Road [A]
Like Kerouac [G]
Pretty Nice Day [D]
Fiction of A Real Life – GTR Tuning D-G-C-G-C-D [D11sus4/Am11]
Hot Night [Em]
Down in Our Hometown [D]
Sunday Comes In Blue [C]
On a Wonderful Night [F#] (Capo 4 – played in D)
Here Comes the Rain [G]
DuShane Avenue [G]
Cavatappi Waltz [G]
Take A Step [C]
Snap A Picture [E] (Capo 2 – played in D)

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Lyrics

Down in Our Hometown

Known her just a while and I think she’s fine But everybody says she the “troubled kind” Ain’t a “bad girl” just faraway and moody Not satisfied with roses and a movie (cause) CHORUS She don’t fit in A small town sin Loves her kin But she ain’t like them…

DuShane Avenue

©2022 J Oscar Bittinger Lots of folks, keep to their kindDon’t like those others hanging roundPeople ended up at our houseFrom all parts of town. Ball game on the radio. If you needed somewhere to go Welcome toDuShane AvenueGlad you cameTo DuShane AvenueLaughing, talkin’ and bitchin’Always something cooking in the […]

Fiction of a Real Life

Fiction of a Real Life © 2017 J Oscar Bittinger Everybody knows something you don't know Everybody's been places - you'd like to go Dream up drama ‘bout people in a Café line Create a Fiction from a Real Life

Here Comes the Rain

Sometimes you’ll feel the storm Before it hits you But the sky is going to fall On creature’s great and small Things you planned on All get abandoned and they Wash away HERE COMES THE RAIN

Hot Night

© 2014 J Oscar Bittinger High Summer Too warm in the kitchen To sit and listen to the radio Night comin' - You wipe the sweat from your neck That you get - Even when you’re moving slow On a hot night - A hot night - A hot night…

Like Kerouac

Call me Jack! Like Kerouac Forget the map Let's just drive Windows down Music loud Ain't it good just to be alive

On a Wonderful Night

Come on, come on; let's go downtown We can see a movie or talk about your mom ON A WONDERFUL NIGHT Summer don't last long

Open Road

© 2023 J Oscar Bittinger By nine it’s hotter than a frying panFinished packed up the back of the old blue vanShe come up running“Ain’t no work in this spare parts townJust nuts and bolts in an old can rattlin’ aroundSure to make you crazy” [CHORUS]Hey, Friend! I want to […]

Pretty Nice Day

Are you looking for something? Waiting for someone Who isn’t coming… In life’s big mystery Maybe a clue Is what you choose to do And how you do it makes today CHORUS A Pretty Nice Day….

Snap A Picture

©2025 J Oscar Bittinger Take a traveling selfieBy a pub or shrine Show that you’d been thereRaise a glass of wineJust before the high-tideBefore the forest fireWhen rocks of revolution flewOver fences of barbed wire (Did you..) CHORUSSNAP A PICTUREStop time in spaceSNAP A PICTURECatch feelings in your faceTrue | […]

Take a Step with Me

©2020 J Oscar Bittinger Take a step with meI’ll take a step with youOne, two, threeMakes it sound easy to doOn a sawdust floorLights in the rafter’s aboveFirst dance we’re togetherThis moment feels for-ev-er nowAnd that’s enough [somehow] Do they envy usLittle bride and groom atop the wedding cakeFaces and […]