Bad Never Felt So Good

copywrite: Donald M. Nivens Jr.

fell in love with a preachers daughter

on a warm summer night

didn’t know he’d be home early

had me running for my life

Rollin down the highway like a rabbit on the run

In my rearview mirror was a preacher with a gun

You know I love you baby, you’ve got to save my soul

She said turn right here and let me steer and I’ll

Take you to the river baby, take you to the river to pray

If you don’t mind, it might take some time

For me to wash your sins away cause

Baby baby, bad never felt so good

Oh baby bad never felt so good

Bad never felt so good

I was quickley falling out of favor,

let me tell you son

Nothing lifts your spirits higher,

than a preacher with a gun

Rollin down the highway like a rabbit on the run

In my rearview mirror was a preacher with a gun

You know I love you baby, you’ve got to save my soul

She said turn right here and let me steer and I’ll

Take you to the river baby, take you to the river to pray

If you don’t mind, it might take some time

For me to wash your sins away cause

Baby baby, bad never felt so good

Oh baby bad never felt so good

Bad never felt so good

Til I was loving you

Til I was loving you

I was loving you

Rollin down the highway like a rabbit on the run

In my rearview mirror was a preacher with a gun

You know I love you baby, you’ve got to save my soul

She said turn right here and let me steer and I’ll

Take you to the river baby, take you to the river to pray

If you don’t mind, it might take some time

For me to wash your sins away cause

Baby baby, bad never felt so good

Oh baby bad never felt so good

Bad never felt so good

Til I was loving you

Til I was loving you

I was loving you

On that Train to Memphis

copywrite: Donald M. Nivens Jr.

Little Miss Lollipop why you always blow your top

Every time I come in late

Me and the boys have been out playing Johnny Be Good

No lipstick on my collar no two dollar bills

Just playing our music and getting a thrill

You scream and shout like I knew you would

You know I’ve always been a dreamer

You always start up a fight.

I’m dreaming of playing my music to a different crowd every night

So I left that woman out in San Antone, told her I had gone to Walk The Dog

But I was on that train to Memphis with a blues guitar in my hand

She was a running and a screaming at the train as it was leaving

As the train was a pulling down the tracks

I was on that train to Memphis, I aint looking back no more

The train it was a leaving by the time she stop believing I was coming back

When I went out to walk the dog

Little Miss Potty Mouth always got to cuss and shout

A bar of soap would do you good

I’ve never heard language like that from a woman before

The dog was in a frenzy and I was kind of busy

Trying to Mime my way through the door

When I seen that dog was the escape I was looking for

You know I’ve always been a dreamer

You always start up a fight.

I’m dreaming of playing my music to a different crowd every night

So I left that woman out in San Antone, told her I had gone to Walk The Dog

But I was on that train to Memphis with a blues guitar in my hand

She was a running and a screaming at the train as it was leaving

as the train was a pulling down the track

I was on that train to Memphis, I aint looking back no more

The train it was a leaving by the time she stop believing I was coming back

I was on that train to Memphis

on that train to Memphis

on that train to Memphis

on that train to Memphis

Brother to Brother    copywrite: Donald M. Nivens Jr.

You were my Hero

And I’m sure that I was yours

From the day that we were born

Even more now that we are grown

We would ride like the wind

Through many miles of roads

Nothing ever could divide us

A bond only brothers know

Oh I fell down to my knees

the day I got the news

that I was left to face this world alone

Oh we both knew it was coming

Didn’t know it would be so soon

Oh and a part of me has left and a part of you lives on

Brother to Brother you were always there when I needed a helping hand

Brother to Brother you were always there when I needed to make a stand

Now I know that you won’t be here by my side

Cause the road to Heaven’s paved for your last ride

And when the Angel of Mercy reaches down to take your hand

And the heavens open up and your light shines down

Oh, tell em I’m your brother

Oh I fell down to my knees

the day I got the news

that I was left to face this world alone

Oh we both knew it was coming

Didn’t know it would be so soon

Oh and a part of me has left and a part of you lives on

Brother to Brother you were always there when I needed a helping hand

Brother to Brother you were always there when I needed to make a stand

Now I know that you won’t be here by my side

Cause the road to Heaven’s paved for your last ride

And when the Angel of Mercy reaches down to take your hand

And the heavens open up and your light shines down

Oh, tell em I’m your brother

Tell em I’m your brother

Tell em I’m your brother

Tell em I’m your brother

Tell em I’m your brother

Far Away

Copywrite: Donald M. Nivens Jr

All the wrong people have all the right nothing to say

They sell truth in their lies then they turn and go their own way

Beheading Believers, self righteous redeemers

with your blood in the palm of their hands

Takes me so, so, so Far Away

Out in the desert there’s things that I don’t understand

I saw a preacher man, preached with a gun in his hand

He said an eye for and eye is the way that it’s got to be

But you look like a sinner so don’t through your first stone at me

Take me Far Away,

Far away,

Take me So so so Far away.

You shout from your mountain to the valley below,

try to capture them under their spell

so busy judging all the other people, there’s no time for judging their self

And You were held Captive by those who just hate you as you lie with your face in your hands

Until the Rapture comes all that remains is their souls in your blood stained sand.

I met a begger man out on the street all alone

He said son let me tell you, we’re not all that far from our home

People who view me say I’m just a fool in the sage

Don’t sympathize me, they don’t realize, in the end we are all judged the same

Taken Far Away,

Far away,

Taken so so so Far away.

Far away

All the wrong people have all the right nothing to say

The Backyard Blues Bandits

copywrite: Donald M. Nivens Jr.

In the heart of the southland

there's a juke joint that hammers

out the blues every Saturday night

after 60 years of reeling that old tin shack kept screaming where the blues lovers play thru the night

but ol gip he got hasseled

by the Bessemer city council

oh the council they turned every stone

and the police came calling

for the backyard blues bandits

and now the blues don' t play anymore

Oh you know it ain't right

police called in the night

and now the blues don't play anymore

and I find myself searching for another

juke joint.

Oh you know it aint easy

when your town calls a meeting

and the land sharks they come out to play.

but ol Gibson he rallied and the world screamed and shouted

for that juke joint to play on anyway

Oh you know it ain't right

police called in the night

and now the blues don't play anymore

and I find myself searching for another

juke joint.

Ol Gip had a few rules

always pray when we start

and we won't have no swearing in the night

and if you come with a woman, you leave with that woman, but you women you can leave with who you like

from all over the nation

all over creation

you'll find yourself welcome in his home

it don't matter if you're black no it don't matter if you're white

cause the blues has a color all it's own

Oh you know it ain't right

police called in the night

and now the blues don't play anymore

and I find myself searching for another

juke joint.

Oh you know it ain't right

police called in the night

and now the blues don't play anymore

and I find myself searching for another

blues song to take me home

Blank Sheets of Paper

copywrite: Donald M. Nivens Jr.

Did you ever hear a teardrop just as it touched the ground.

Did you see the eyes that shed them, or were they nowhere to be found

Did you ever see a soldier just as he hit the ground

With all the miles between us, you never heard a sound

Chorus:

Oh if the world could have peace for just one day

What a cool world it would be

If everyone loved everybody

Cause love had been set free

Oh the newspapers were blank sheets of paper

There was no Bad news today

No soldiers in a war zone waiting to be shot down

no shots were fired in anger, Or no robberies in town

And there were no hungry children There was food to go around

And nobody suffered heartache, No woman was beat down

by the man who was sworn to protect her…

Chorus:

Oh everybody spilled into the streets and they smiled at everyone they’d meet and homeless man was given a room on the richer side of town

And the brothers they were brothers and the sisters they were sisters and the heavens opened up and the light shined down on the people and every body sang

Everybody Love everybody, yeaheh everybody love everybody        

Everybody Love everybody, yeaheh everybody love everybody

Everybody Love everybody, yeaheh everybody love everybody

Everybody Love everybody, ayeahehyeahyeah ayeahehyeahehyeah

Ayeahehyeahehyeahyeah a yeahyeah

Oh if the world could find peace for just one day

What a cool world it would be

If everyone loved everybody

Cause love had been set free

Oh the newspapers were blank sheets of paper

There was no Bad news today

Oh the newspapers were blank sheets of paper