Doc And The Diva

Turtle Dove

Well I’m going down, I'm going down to the town 
I'm gonna find me someone to love 
I've been away too long I sing a lonely song 
I want to hear that turtle dove 

Turtle dove oh turtle dove 
sing your song for me 
I need to live my life, I want to find a wife 
To sit here on my knee 

I’m gonna build me a house to hold my spouse 
Beside the big oak tree 
Gonna build a barn gonna say gosh darn 
Gonna raise us a family 

Turtle dove oh turtle dove 
sing your song for me 
I need to live my life, I want to find a wife 
To sit here on my knee 

There’ll be girls and boys to make some noise 
Cows and sows and chicks 
There’ll be dogs, hogs, frogs and logs 
We sure gonna get our kicks 

Turtle dove oh turtle dove 
sing your song for me 
I need to live my life, I want to find a wife 
To sit here on my knee 

When the years turn gold and we’re getting old 
We’ll set out here by the lake 
We’ll strum some tunes by the light of the moon 
Eat the icing off the cake 

Turtle dove oh turtle dove 
sing your song for me 
I need to live my life, I want to find a wife 
To sit here on my knee 

Turtle dove oh turtle dove 
sing your song for me 
I need to live my life, I want to find a wife 
To sit here on my knee

© 2018 Chip Swett

Track Credits:

Chip Swett (Guitar, Vocal) 
Alicia Thompson (Guitar, Vocal) 
Eric Reid (Fiddle) 
Brian Lenehan (Bass)

Marble Stoneyard 

I'm going back to the marble stoneyard 
To visit kinfolk that I revere 
The graves are leaning on that dusty boulevard 
The names on the old ones have disappeared. 

Reach out your withered hands 
Reach out from where you're sleeping 
Tell me of the Promised Land 
Are you joyful or are you weeping 

Sit by the tombstones, drift through the ages 
Gaze once more at eternity 
I see so many ghostly faces 
The unbroken circle’s sweet mystery 

Reach out your withered hands 
Reach out from where you are sleeping 
Tell me of the Promised Land 
Are you joyful or are you weeping 

Have you seen my mother and father 
Are they still bent and broken down 
Or are they young and happy hearted 
Are they wearing that heavenly crown 

Reach out your withered hands 
Reach out from where you are sleeping 
Tell me of the Promised Land 
Are you joyful or are you weeping 

I look across the marble stoneyard 
I see back 200 years 
There are old folks and children in the boneyard 
There are many stories of joy and tears 

Reach out your withered hands 
Reach out from where you are sleeping 
Tell me of the Promised Land 
Are you joyful or are you weeping 

Tell me of the promised land 
Are you joyful or are you weeping

© 2015 Chip Swett

Track Credits:

Chip Swett (Guitar, Resonator Guitar,  Vocal) 
Alicia Thompson (Guitar, Vocal) 
Eric Reid (Fiddle) 
Brian Lenehan (Bass)

Mother Of Mine 

Mother, what’s your name today 
Will you be the one that wants me to stay 
Or will you send me away if I step out of line 
Make me turn my back and leave one more time 
Mother of mine 

I lost my mother when I was a child 
I can barely see her now, a trace of her smile 
I’ve been in and out of so many places 
Hoping for someone’s good graces 
Mother of mine 

Mother be the one that I’m looking for 
You’ve got to be behind one of these doors 
Please be the one that will hold on to me 
I don’t mind sleeping on the floor 

Mother, can you please open your heart 
Is there any way we can make a start 
I can’t take a chance that the answer is no 
Better keep my bag packed and be ready to go 
Mother of mine 

Mother be the one that I’m looking for 
You’ve got to be behind one of these doors 
Please be the one that will hold on to me 
I don’t mind sleeping on the floor 

Mother, what’s your name today 
Are you the one that wants me to stay 
Thanks for bringing me out of the rain 
The touch of your hand eases some of my pain 
Mother of mine 

Mother be the one that I’m looking for 
You’ve got to be behind one of these doors 
Please be the one that will hold on to me 
I don’t mind sleeping on the floor 
I don’t mind sleeping on the floor

© 2017 Chip Swett

Track Credits:

Chip Swett (Guitar, Vocal) 
Alicia Thompson (Guitar, Vocal) 
Eric Reid (Fiddle) 
Brian Lenehan (Bass)

PICTURES FROM THE PAST 

So many pictures in all those boxes 
They gotta go before I leave 
So many smiles, tears & paradoxes 
So little time to laugh or grieve 

Pictures from the past 
Still warm my heart today 
Time flies by so fast 
Dreams of yesterday 

Some of these pictures I’ll keep forever 
I’ll hold them right here next to my heart 
Take these others for now or never 
Cherish our memories or let them part 

Pictures from the past 
Still warm my heart today 
Time flies by so fast 
Dreams of yesterday 

There’s Mom and Dad and many others 
Wish they were here with me today 
All my sisters and my brothers 
We were so young look at us play 

Pictures from the past 
Still warm my heart today 
Time flies by so fast 
Dreams of yesterday

© 2017 Chip Swett & Alicia Thompson

Track Credits:

Chip Swett (Guitar, Vocal) 
Alicia Thompson (Guitar, Vocal) 
Eric Reid (Fiddle) 
Brian Lenehan (Bass)