One More Heartache 

You’ve been talking in your sleep a lot. 
Are you guilty, or are you not? 
I’ve seen a friend of mine today, 
Oh, the words that he had to say. 
He saw you with another man; 
That’s just something I don’t understand. 

Chorus: 
One more heartache, 
I can’t take it anymore. 
One more heartache, 
I can’t take it anymore. 
I can’t take it anymore 

I’ve suspected for a little while. 
I can tell the difference in your smile. 
When I look into your eyes, I see 
An Ice cold reflection of me, 
And sometimes when I hold your hand, 
I can tell you love another man. 

Chorus: 

I don’t think I can go on no more. 
Can’t find anything to live for. 
If you think you’d like to try again, 
You’re welcome baby to a one night stand. 

Chorus: (repeat) (ad-lib) 

© W. Cook

Minot Rap  Play Song 

Minot, Minot, Why not Minot? You wanna reason why? 
Then please stand by. It’s cold. It’s cold. 
You’re getting cabin fever and you wanna place to go; 
You’d better stay inside, ‘cause it’s forty-five below. 
You drive through McDonald’s, I wish you good luck. 
Try to row the window down, but the darn thing’s stuck. 
You gonna get a car? Get a four-wheel-drive, 
If you can’t get four then you’d better get five. 
It’s cold. 
If you stop on a hill, your wheels spin round. 
You can’t go up, so you gotta go down. 
If you live in North Dakota, then you better buy a shovel. 
If you gotta bad back, then you’re gonna have trouble. 
It’s Cold. In Minot, it’s cold. 
You get up every morning and you check upon the weather, 
But it’s always getting worse, instead of getting better. 
I like things different; it really is nice, 
But you’ve gotta be jokin’ if you’re fishin’ on the ice. 
That’s cold. That’s cold. In Minot, that’s cold. 

Break: 
But I gotta be fair, it’s gotta really nice summer. 
It only last a week. Well, isn’t that a bummer. 
There’s a few more things, besides the fact it’s frozen, 
Gotta make it to the store before Sunday closing. 

It really is amazing they don’t have a leaning tower. 
I know the winds in Pizza don’t blow forty miles an hour. 
To figure out to move, you don’t have to be Plato, 
Especially when you house gets hit by a tornado. 
That’s cold. Man, that’s cold. 
If you’re gonna live in Minot, it isn’t really tragic. 
But, let’s be honest. Can we really call it magic? 
If you wanna go south, you don’t have to be a bird. 
Just remember that I told you, and now you got the word. 
It’s cold. It’s cold. 
If you’re gonna live in Minot, remember you’ve been told. 
I got nothin’ ‘gainst the city. It’s just too cold. 
It’s cold. It’s cold. In Minot, it’s cold. 
M M M M M M Minot, that’s cold. That’s Minot. That’s cold. 

Repeat first verse. 
© W. Cook

I Wanna Be You  Play Song 

You’re a lucky man who understands 
That luck can come and go 
Like a flash in the pan 
You’ve got forty more years 
So you’d better measure life with coffee spoons 
Champagne, caviar, brunettes and blondes 
You sleep through the morning 
And the days go by 
Nonstop ‘til you drop, blow your top 
Or until the cops drop by 

Chorus: 
Life is so short and chances are so few 
We only go around one time 
And if that’s true 
I wanna be you (wanna be, wanna be) 
I wanna be you (wanna be, wanna be) 
I wanna be you (wanna be, wanna be) 
I wanna be you 

Oh, your hair’s so perfect 
Makes it all worth it when the sun goes down 
You’re so free,  it must be absolutely heavenly (what a life) 
You’re well bred and comforted 
A certified, satisfied, gratified hedonist (check it out) 
Don’t know what you’ve got or where you got it, but I want some 

Chorus: 

You think you wanna be me 
But there’s things you just can’t see 
From where you stand 
Money doesn’t make a man and I do al I can 
To be like you 
You improvise but never, ever compromise 
An otherwise sticky situation 
A lucky man who understands 
That life can come and go 
Like a flash in the pan 

Chorus: (fade) 

    © W. Cook

Crazy Little World 

She’s got a handful of reasons 
To send me on my way 
I’ve got one good reason 
For beggin’ her to stay 
She’s the spring in my step 
The smile on my lips 
Oh, she’s the light of my day 

We’ve got a syncopated rhythm 
She plays laughter in my heart 
I’ll be singin’ them sad ol’ blues 
If we should ever part 
She’s my left hand 
She’ my right hand 
She’s my shadow in the dark 

Chorus: 
If this crazy little world would just stand still 
I could drink of her 
I could drink of her 
I could drink of her 
Until I get my fill 
But the future checks the past 
As the sand sifts through the hourglass 
I’ll stay within the light of her 

She’ the color in a world of shades of gray 
She’s the dawn 
That brings another summer day 
She’s the sunshine, she’s the rain 
She’s a lover’s hurricane 
(Best of all) She’s mine 

In the morning when she’s lying next to me 
The world would give the world 
To be me 
But I’ve got all the gold 
And the rest just have a bold imitation 

Chorus: 
Chorus: (fade) 

    © W. Cook

At the Devil's Fire

Samson loved Delilah. 
He loved her too much, 
Starry eyes, electric touch 
With every single breath she took, 
She set his soul on fire 
He was warming his hands at the devil’s fire 

Chorus: 
Warming his hands at the devil’s fire 
Warming his hands (warming his hands) at the devil’s fire 
He was made a prisoner (set him free) of his own desires 
(He was) Warming his hands at the devil’s fire (at the devil’s fire) 

When the Messiah was taken in 
Peter swore he would never deny him 
But before the cock crowed thrice, 
he was proved a liar 
(He was) Warming his hands at the devil’s fire 

Chorus: 

Bridge: 
Don’t warm your hands at that fire 
Don’t sell your soul to the highest buyer 
Hand of your brother, your sister too 
Will give your warmth like that fire never knew 
Don’t be trap by your own desire 
(Warming your hands, 
warming your hands, 
warming your hands . . .) 

Judas Iscariot, King Harod too 
They butchered them and they hated us and they betrayed you 
Enemies of God himself, 
Down to the wire 
(They were) Warming their hand at the devil’s fire 

Chorus: 
Chorus: (fade) 

    © W. Cook

The Literacy Club Play Song 

To raise emergent literacy, to raze and curb illiteracy 
We’re all teaching for mastery in The Literacy Club 
Behaviorist and cognitive psychologist 
Are models for The Literacy Club 
DRTA and ITO,  we use the four cueing systems 
As the words go by 
In poetry and fantasy the author uses imagery 
(The Literacy Club) 

Chorus: 
Literature is riches and membership is free 
Reading can make you what you want to be 
Join The Literacy Club (The Literacy Club) 
Join The Literacy Club (The Literacy Club) 
The Literacy Club 

Take an outdoor adventure with expository structures 
Teach it to a gifted learner in The Literacy Club 
Take an interactive view but don’t correct the miscue 
You want them to continue in The Literacy Club 
The main character, conflict, setting, and theme 
Are the fabric sewn together at the story grammar seam 
We need to find a remedy for learning disability 
And leave behind a legacy, The Literacy Club 

Chorus: 

Miscue analysis and visual and auditory emphasis 
Escalate reading achievement 
Cooperative learning and meteacognitive monitoring 
Are simple ways of honoring The Literacy Club 
An inferential reader is a comprehension leader 
Frequent feedback makes it sweeter in The Literacy Club 
Whole Language, LEA, essential sight vocabulary 
Help to build schemata in The Literacy Club 

Chorus: 
(Ad-lib) 

©  W. Cook

Run Through The World  Play Song 

Chorus: 
Run through the world as fast as you can 
Don’t you ever stop trying 
Run through the world ‘til you reach the end 
Don’t you ever stop trying 
Run ‘til you reach the rainbow’s end 
Don’t you ever stop trying 
Don’t you ever stop trying 

A penny for your thoughts 
That wake you in the night 
Hours in the darkness, 
Waiting for daylight 
Simple taste of victory 
With battles still to fight 
On the wings of righteous 
Fighting for the right to be free 

Chorus: 

A sacrifice today 
Can help you through tomorrow 
Laughter with a friend 
Can ease the grip of sorrow 
Clouds with silver linings 
Things are looking bright 
You piece your life together 
And you fight with all your might 
To be free (to be free) 

Chorus: 

Chorus: (fade) 

    © W. Cook

An Ever Changing World  Play Song 

I use to be a free spirit 
Blowing in the wind. 
Now, I just hope that someday 
I’ll be that way again. 
The world was mine 
And we lived in the sunshine, 
But now, it seems like rain 
(At least in my mind). 

Chorus 1: 
Cover me from an ever changing world  (2 &3 Oh, Lord) 
Shelter me form what I never be. 
Please don’t let the world Judas me, 
And Lord may my spirit run free. 

I went away to serve some time. 
The military changed me 
(From the inside out) 
I thought that I was living, 
But now I have my doubts. 
Thank God all that’s over, 
The clouds and rain have all blown by. 
I’ve sat up nights wondering why . . . 
The answer never came. 

Chorus 2: 

My spirit came back 
On a wet and rainy day 
As I walked down Feathergill Lane. 
Now, I sit here again, 
With the world and the wind, 
And I guess I can live with the rain. 

Chorus 3: 
(Repeat) (fade) 

© W. Cook

Stand Up!  Play Song 

There’s are needs of the common people 
Needs people don’t understand 
I’ve got fire in my eyes 
And a need of my own 
To take this cold world by the hand 

Point blank I’ll say it seems crazy 
But there’s a war raging out in the streets 
I’m no island; I’m no rock of Gibralta 
But I’m standing firm 
Until the blood at my feet 
Is knee deep 

Chorus: 
Stand up! Don’t let it turn your heart cold 
Stand up! It can take time to get back 
When you’re lost form your soul 
Stand up! And take a lesson from pain 
And if the world gets you down 
Just stand up and fight back again 

I’ve seen tears in the eyes of a woman 
I’ve seen where churches have burned to the ground 
I’ve seen tears in the eyes of the common man 
Common man in a common town 

 Bridge: 
The world is falling apart 
As it stands up against all aggression 
Why can’t we all live together 
And stamp out the modern oppression 
The cynics are out on the sidewalks 
The poet’s asleep at the wheel 
So wake up! 
‘Cause there’s a war in our streets 
There’s a war in our streets 
Yes, there a war in our streets 
And it’s real 

Chorus: 

    © W. Cook