Listen and Love
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Little Baby Jesus
words and music by Doug Howell • © 2021 Creative Measures LLC little baby Jesusdo you knowall the sorrow, all the woeall the pain and suffering of this worldthis poor world you’re born in but sleep nowMother Mary’s love surround youand keep…
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I Wanted To Stay
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2021 Creative Measures LLC I saw you sidewaysIn the morning lightAnd watched a smile spread slowlyFrom the left to the rightThe horses stirringAnxious for the dawnLike all the dreamsMy hopes were riding…
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Look at Me
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2021 Creative Measures LLC put away your sentenceslay your voice to restkeep your heart in silencecome and be my guestturn off the radioblaring in your earI’ve got so much to tell youif…
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King of Dreams
words & music by Doug Howell • © Word Music Inc. OKhave it your wayit’s only fair to warn youI don’t know how to live this waybut I’ll give it a trycause I believe you’d rather die than hurt meI…
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Simple Song
words & music by Honeytree (Nancy Henigbaum Miller) • © by Warner Chappell Music, Inc. • Recorded with the author’s permission I will sing a simple songthe meaning will be clearand you’ll never have to wonderwhen you’re far away from…
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God Be With You
words by Jeremiah E. Rankin (1880), tune: Beach Spring (attr. to Benjamin F. White, 1844) • arranged for SATB by Doug Howell • © 2018 Creative Measures LLC SATB and piano: God be with youtill we meet againGod be in…
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Nellie
words and music by Doug Howell © 2021 Creative Measures • All rights reserved in those first daysshe was on her ownshe taught a one-room schoolshe’d always spank the kids at just the proper timeand when her own children came…
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The Song of Songs
Music by Doug Howell, Lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) Sheet music available! Vocal-Piano-Guitar the song of songs, the loveliest songthe song of Love, the Kingno joy on earth compares with hisbut seems a broken thinghis…
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Bluebird
words & music by Doug Howell (29 Oct 1979) • © 2020 Creative Measures LLC he sent the morning sun to kiss me awakehe sent a gentle breezeto whisper my nameand just for my eyeshe made all these wonders I…
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I’m Not Afraid of Growing Old
words & music by Doug Howell (29 Oct 1979) clocksit’s so disgusting how they tick away the dayssometimes I can almost feel my youthslip through my fingersI can feel it slippin’ awaybut even though it’s different nowthan it used to…
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A Day Like There’s Never Been Before
words and music by Doug Howell © 2020 Creative Measures • All rights reserved will you watch over me as I wake?smile at me as you whisper my name?you’ll be the first one to see meyou’ll be the first one…
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Somebody Special
words and music by Doug Howell (24 Jan 1974) © 2020 Creative Measures • All rights reserved you look at melike I’m somebody specialyou make me feel neededand I like that feeling, butI’m not used to beinglooked at that wayso…
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Stay
words and music by Doug Howell (16 Jun 1975) © 2020 Creative Measures • All rights reserved stay hereclose by my sideyou always hear when I crycalm every fearand you understand the pain that won’t leave meyou feel it, too…
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Make Me Just Like You
words & music by Doug Howell (8 Aug 1974) I’ve been seein’ things that I just shouldn’t seeand I’ve been tryin’ to be things in my mind I shouldn’t beI’ve been goin’ places I really shouldn’t goLord, You’re my last…
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Nashville
words and music by Doug Howell (11 Jul 1979) © 1980 Home Sweet Home Music, assigned to Word Music Inc. • Used by special permission • All rights reserved here I am stuck in a little town that I have…
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Silent Night
words and music by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber (Public Domain) • arrangement and verse 4 by Doug Howell (November 2019 – © Creative Measures LLC) Sheet music available! Bass/Alto • Tenor/Soprano silent night, holy nightall is calm, all is…
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Still You Love Me
words and music by Doug Howell (5 Feb 1977) ©2019 Creative Measures • All rights reserved you know all the meanings behind the words I sayand how I rearrange them to sound some other wayyou count every tear I cry…
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If You Were
words and music by Doug Howell (For David – Valentine’s Day, 1991) if you were God’s grace to me would your face be any dearer to my eyes? would your love taste sweeter to this thirst of mine, welcome home…
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Diamonds
words and music by Doug Howell (11 Nov 1979) a thousand diamonds on the back of a leafa hundred on a single blade of grassfrosty jewels fallen from some store of wealth unseensunlight through the crystals on a glassprisms splashing…
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House on the Ocean
words and music by Doug Howell (12 Jan 1978) I’ve always wanted a house on the oceanall made of glass, perched high on a hillthen every morning I’d wake with the sunriseand every night rock to sleep with the wavesall…