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"Do You Believe!"

Do you believe, in the living, God

Who knows, the hearts and minds, of men

Do you believe, in the living, God

Who knows, who does, harm, and who amend

Do you believe, if you give, onto Him

You shall, receive back, ten-fold

Do you believe, He has revealed, His plan

All has been, Fore-told

Do you believe, He gave His law

And gave us all, free will

Do you believe, we are all His sons

And but to defend, it's wrong, to kill

Do you believe, in the living God

Who knows, the hearts and minds, of men

Do you believe, He took mans, rib

And made of it, women

Do you believe, we're to go-forth

Be fruitful, and multiply

Do you believe, you shall stand, alone

Before Him, when, you die

Do you believe, in the living, God

Who said: "Abraham, I am!"

Do you believe, in the living, God

Who knows, the hearts and, mind, of man!

Poem by T. J. Cole
Woodstock, NY
8/8/2001
(no copyright, property of all!)

"The Caledonia Avalanche Blues"

(For and about The Band)

From Helena, and Toronto

And anywhere, that road would go

They could, sing so high, they could, sing so low

Across that, great divide

That Rag Tag Choir, around the bend

You'll never see their, likes again

Vagabonds, of the same mind

Making good for some, unspoken crime

By Memphis and New Orleans

A song for those, of lessor means

They backed the best, and taught the rest

With church, organ and dirge drum

Through, Frost and Fire

Crash and Rust

An every single Petty Bust

Brought chronicles, to the rest of us

Of, The America, they had seen

Of the way, things could have, been

Like, Living in, a Dream

From Helena, and Toronto

An Anywhere, That Road Would Go!

Copyrighted, use by permission 9/1995
Song Lyric Music and Lyrics
TJ Cole/ publish under TJ Cole

"Tivoli"

An empty wind, blows down, boarded streets

An nothing, is, disturbed

That, tollin bell, just goes, unheard

An tired dogs, aimlessly, roam

Where I, make, my home

In Tivoli, in Tivoli

A forgotten village, along, The Hudson

Is where, His young , heart, bleeds

Just like, it's waters, flow

And, contemplates, unrequited, love

Just like, Eleanor's

In, Tivoli, In Tivoli

TJ Cole 1981, copyrighted 91
aka TJ Colatrella
Music and Lyrics / TJ
Permission to print! TJ

"Marion Visions"

Marion Visions, and misguided, minions

An Icy pall, awaits to, descend

You can feel, a presence, sense footsteps, comin

Nothing, it touches, is the same, again

It's in granite, and plaster, that times moving, faster

To that destination, where, this mystery, began

It's on, The drums, of Africa, The Torah, The Koran

Bhagavad Gita, The Bible, those handbooks, of man

That salvation, is singular, for each, individual

There's no crossing, that threshold, holding any ones, hand

But there's footsteps, to follow, all shortcuts, ring hollow

The Kremlin, The Pentagon, are both, built on, sand

So go tell your brother, we're in the charge, of each other

From, India and Pakistan

Israel an Iran

So Go tell, your brother, we're in the charge, of each, other

Every Father and Child, Woman and Man

Marion Visions, and misguided, minions

An Icy, pall, awaits, to descend!

TJ Cole 1991
aka TJ Colatrella
Song Lyric Words and Music TJ Cole
copyrighted 91/use w/ permission TJ