| Beautiful Girl | About adoration of a “Beautiful Girl” that you can’t get off your mind. | Slow with definite beat, infatuation |
| Brown Baby | About the hopes & dreams for children of color to grow up in a better world with dignity & pride. | Slow in a beat of 3, optimistic |
| But I Was Cool | Attempts to maintain: no matter how bad things get you try to keep your cool- but this guy cant. | Walking pace/dark comedy |
| Call Of the city | Extols the excitement of big city life vs Any rural alternative | Fast pace, excitement, showy |
| A Dime Away From A Hotdog | A comedic view of living life just short of a homeless person-with no prospects and debt. | walking pace, soulful, funky, hopeless |
| Forbidden Fruit | About “Adam and Eve” committing the original sin and being chastised in the Garden. | Fast walking pace, comical |
| Hazel’s Hips | About love for a waitress named “Hazel” and how her hair and eyes are fine but her hips bring her the tips. | Slow & brassy, sexy, desire |
| Hymn to friday | Heralds plans for enjoying the weekend and extols joy that the work week is over | Quick beat, Happy/optimistic |
| Hymn To the Homeless | About the plight of the homeless and the day to day conditions that they endure. | Walking pace, concern |
| Its October | A poignant comparison of how Life like autumn has seasonal changes. | Walking pace, Sax solo, pictorial |
| Ladies Man | About a man taking a nostalgic reflection on his love conquests of days gone by. | Dancing beat, comical & fun. Spoken word. |
| Love Is Like a Newborn Child | Connecting the essence of the love and care of a newborn to a new romance | Walking pace, reflective, hopeful |
| Lucky Guy | About the many material items, women and friends he has all of which money has helped him to buy. | Slow & brassy/Rat Pack like |
| Opportunity Please Knocks | About the need for opportunity to lift one’s self out of a rut. And that it come along in whatever form is available | Slow & brassy/plead & need for a break |
| Rags And Old Iron | About a broken hearted person appealing to the Ragman street vendor to trade in their pain | Slow, grief from lost love |
| When Malindy Sings | The narrator’s comical comparison of a slave’s singing voice vs. the master’s wife. Preference is for the melodious servant singing style. Period poem craftly using old negro dialect. | Fast walking pace |
| World Full of Grey | About how life is filled with choices and he’s not sure which direction to take because nothing is clear cut -just grey. | Slow, ballad, meditative, dramatic |