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J Oscar Bittinger

Big Blue Sky

It’s a Big Blue Sky
Perfect Autumn day
Sun is high
Headed on our way
‘Neath a Big Blue Sky
Golden autumn day
Troubles blow out the window
Like leaves they fall away

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

Glorious Ordinary Day

In the office telephones ring
Paper shuffling
Get to your next meeting on time
Gotta deadline
Deals at lunchtime
Going down, down, down (down, down, down)

BRIDGE 2
Warships sail across an oil slicked bay
Read all about it as your taxi speeds away
It’s another Glorious Ordinary Day

Here Comes the Giant

Here comes the giant
He darkens the street where you live
He isn’t mindful
Of crushing
All you might offer him

Holly Jolly Holiday

MUSIC © 2012 J. Oscar Bittinger LYRICS © 2008 J Oscar Bittinger & Lauran Hardin CHORUS Friends and lovers we’ll be toasting The old chestnuts we’ll be roasting Even though the sky is mostly gray (We still sing) Deck the halls And oh, by golly We’re going to have a Holly Jolly Holiday We’ll sing […]

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 this

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

One More Year (On Your Way)

One more year in the rear view
Here’s to look forward to another day
Hope you’re feeling hopeful
Still singing soulful
I see you’re on your way
Again today

Open Road

© 2018 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” HALF CHORUSHEY FRIEND! I want to get awayAH-MEN! If just […]

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….

Saloon Concert – No. 0, Woody’s Bastards

Saloon Concert – No. 0, Woody’s Bastards

A great time was had, many new friends made at… “Woody’s Bastard’s A SALOON CONCERT of Rough-edged Folksong and Barroom Balladry” April 9, 2010 Nick Fink’s 3965 West River Drive NE Comstock Park, MI 49321 (616) 784-9886 $5 Cover Charge – CHEAP! Tim Pak – Radford, VA by way of Detroit, MI – The Saltminers, […]

Sideshow

I could be your clown
When the roller coaster’s got you down
I could be your Fortune Telling Gypsy
Is the Lion Tamer out
With the burly Roustabout?
We’ll both disappear, Magician and Beauty…
Why don’t you come see
The sideshow
I just want to be
Your Sideshow…

Snow Day

© 2011 J Oscar Bittinger It came down heavy about twilightCaught in a snake of red taillightsEvery thing starts to s-l-o-w  d-o-w-n  n – o – wHeat on high, the wipers work hardIt’s a whiteout! Can barely see the very next carMakes you wish you were behind a big snowplowBut once you’re home, it’s beautifulStarry […]

Tell Me Molly

© 1988 J. Oscar Bittinger Tell me Molly why can’t wePretend a while to be lovers?Tell me Molly can it beYou’re surprised to discoverA playful friend am II see the sparkle in your eyeYou re best boy’s goneDo you ever wonder why?Tell me Molly, why can’t we? Tell me Molly, now and thenWould you like […]

Thought I Had More Time

Thought I had more time
To make up my own mind
To catch all I could chase
In the wide world’s endless race
But I was wrong
Don’t have that long

What’s Wild Inside

There is something in the past
Must be felt to be released
Something in the present
Just won’t let you sleep

Whatcha Wanna Do Tonight?

Get dressed up
Go to the club
Dance, dance, dance
To the thump, thump, thump
How about a night cap
At the local pub?

Whatever Love Wants

© 2005 J. Oscar Bittinger Don’t you knowThat I know?That what you hideYou seek to showBelow the groundBeneath the snowAfter the fires and the warsSeeds start to grow! CHORUSWhatever love wants Love will getYou can deny itBut it’s not done with you yetBetween the flood of passionAnd the desert of regretWhatever love wants Love will […]

When Summer Leaves Town

No sand pails on the shore line
Empty chairs along the strand
The boardwalk isn’t crowded
All the vendors have shut their stands
WHEN SUMMER LEAVES TOWN

Your Confidant

Wish I could be
Your confidant
As I was when first we met
Our hearts were free
Between you and me
There were no secrets yet

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