Table of Contents

Part One - Under Wide, Wide Skies
(Roots & Americana)

Under Wide, Wide Skies
Unitopia (One Man's World)
Colossus' Child
Foundation
Songs of the Droughtmen
Wander Land
Wyoming Mountain Waterfall
The World Drove By
Picking Wildwoods
Rainbows Over Niagara
Fire & Smoke
Mississippi Dead
On Sacred Ground
High Mesas of Montana
The Field
Canadian Skyline
American Son
Gasoline Alley
A Radical Boy Moves to Peoria
A Barkeeps Tale
Setting Fences
Open Call

Part Two - An American Lexicon
(Fanfares for the Common Man)

Cherokee Craftsmen
My Blue-Colored Soul
Enchanted Aria (A Fanfare)
That's Democracy: Ain't It Cool?
Treatise (A Common Man's Manifesto)
Candle
Voice of the People (subtitle enclosed)
The Speaker
American Lyricon
Autumn (9/21/01)
Story of a Disaffected Youth
Gospels of Island John
Steel-Blue Curtains
Hungry Eyes
The Boxer's Tale
Android Slang
Acre's (Edgar's) Folly
Oolong Tea Confidential
Middle Innings
From the Salmon School of Limbo
American Powwow

Part Three - Karaoke Honky-Tonk
(Songs from the Heartland)

Song From the Heartland
Spiced Logic
Coffee House Blues
Trumpet Specifics
A Feel for the Memphis Blues
Kentucky Bluegrass
Song From a Spanish Guitar
Karaoke Honky-Tonk
The Brakeman's Song
Hawaiian Love Song
Triple Bongo Blues
Paper Drum
Life's Golden Tapestry
To a Star in a West Virginia Sky
Mud Boat Blues
Doo-wop on the Corner
Song of the Blue Northern
Mississippi Boy/Louisiana Man
In the Sweet Morning Dawn

Part Four - Cracking on a Political Moon
(Protests, War, and Peace)

Airplanes in the Schoolyard
Voided By a CRT
(Cathode Ray Tube)
Pop Town Racer
Cracking on a Political Moon
Down on the Farm
Criminal Element
Poem Written in a Florida Jail
Fire Watch
Where Blood Red Waters Run
Brain Soup
Anthem for a Wooden Soldier
For the Boys Back Home
Unknown Soldier
We Who Live In Infamy
Arch of Triumph
Good Neighbor Policy
New Americana
Victory Garden
Antithesis of the Magpie
The Profits of Peace
I' Pacifist

Part Five - Green Slumbers
(Lullabies, Laments, and Other Ditties)

Napping on a Glass Bottom Boat
Iced Tea Lamentations
Night Ride Through Nebraska
Remembering Mayport Ferry
Rafting
Cycling on an Idaho Mountain
Cables of Inspiration
Beach Street Opera
Train Whistles Blowing
Last Train Out
Alabaster Grave
Seagulls Over Pelican Bay
Sunset Off Seven Mile Bridge in Key West
Sombrero Flowers
Whistling Through a Forest Green
Hawaiian Lullaby
Liberty Song
I Am Canyon Man
Bells of Coal and Timber
Whitman's Agony
The Fiddler's Final Bow
Bibliography
About the Author

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