My Song List
All Originals [click "Listen to Music" to hear my homegrown (except for two) demos]
365
6:10 p.m. on November 18
A Mile Off Shore
A Million of That Trillion
A Rainbow is Always a Good Sign
Ain’t That Enough Tomorrows for Today?
All of a Sudden I’m 50
Any of the Five Dogs in my Life
April Seconds
Are You Available for Takeout?
Aren’t You Even Gonna Lie?
As Angry as You Want to Be
Ask Yourself
At the House
Atticus Schmatticus
Baba Oge, Father of Beauties
Back to Being Me
Back to Haunt Me
Battles that I Fought
Bertie, My Boy, My Little Stick in the Mud
Better Frame of Mind
Better Love than Mine
Better Windows
Bleeding from a Self-Inflicted Wound
Blood Run Clean
Boots on the Ground in Somebody Else's War
Boys Without Dates
Breakfast with the Devil
Buy You a Case of Wine
Call Me if You Have To
Call Me Right Now
Cansado
Caught in the Undertow
Cedar Fire
Choose to Live with It
Clandestine Affair
Counting the Bodies at Bull Run
Cyberlimbo
Dancing on a Grudge
Darkness of My Own Device
Darrow’s Courthouse Pub
Dee's Roadkill Cafe
Diana Wins Another Round
Dina Mandredini
Doin' Life on the Installment Plan
Dominoes
Don Rickles is my Spirit Animal
Don't Buy Into Climate Change
Don't Flirt With the Married Guy
Don't Get Loud
Don't Marry an AUSA
Don't Put the Idea in My Head
Don't Say I Never Gave You Nothin'
Don't Toy With Me
Dreams from My Father
Eddie Matthews is Safe Tonight
Ego The Size Of Mexico
Eleanor, Will You See Me?
Eleven Strains of Pain
Every Man Has Only One Revolution in His Heart
Every Time I Mention You
Every Woman's Game
Everybody Asks About My Hairdo
Everybody Lies on Their Resume
Everybody's Happy Now
Facing In From The Polar Ends
Fading
Falling for the Stars
Ferry to Coronado
Fictional Character
Figure on a Bike
First Day of Spring
First Words from Ivy
Five Small Towns
Flocks of White Pelicans
For This Guy
Form Letter from a Retired Prostitute
Forty-Four Years Ago Tonight
Four O'Clock in the Morning
Fourteen Days in Quarantine
Fourth and Two
Frolic With Me
Full Night’s Sleep
Garbage Day
Going Through the Portal of My Heart
Getting Robbed by the Change Machine
Good Luck on Pleasant Street
Good Sounds
Grave Concerns
Guest Room 302
Hall of Fame
Hawaii is like Heroin
Heart Cast in Tempered Steel
Hello, Friend
Heroes Living Ordinary LIves
He's In a Band
Hey, Buddy
Hey, Siri
High-Priced Attorney
Hit from Behind
How Can Everyone Know the Truth (and Still Disagree)?
How it All Plays Out
How it Sounds
How Many Bites Do You Get?
Hurts to Be Me
I Didn’t Choose You
I Don't Know Why the Baby Cries
I Don't Win
I Had a Dream About You
I Know a Little Something
I Hope This Year's Better Than the Last One
I Looked At You
I Mean Here
I Meant it Every Time
I See the Signal
I Still Care
I Took the Wrong Train
I Want to Talk to You
I Wish I Could See Me Through Your Eyes
I’d Have Stayed
I'd Like to Think
I'd Love to Hear My Own Advice
I’d Rather Be Numb
I'd Rather Be the Fool
I’d Rather Have Your Sister
If I Could Be Like Bob Duvall
If I Had A Dime
If Oswald Had Lived
If That's the Case
If You Die in Iowa
If You Don't Like Me (Just Pretend)
If You Grew Up on High Street
If You Need a Reason to Miss Me
If You Think I’m Losing My Love For You
If You're a Fan
I'm an Orphan, Now
I'm at Peace When You're Holding Me Down
I'm Gonna Run
I'm Saying Please
I'm Supposed to Care
In Every Little Town
In My Blind Eye
Indiana Tollway at 3 a.m.
Inside Man
Inside Out
Into the Dunk Tank
Irish Boys
Isreal
It All Points to You
It Meant A Whole Lot More To Me
It Will Never Be Simple Again
January Victory
Just a Place
Just Drive
Just Let Me Play
Keep Your Eyes on the Floor
Last Airport Home
Last Fall Tour
Last Night in Waikiki
Let Me Know if You've Heard This One
Let the Twins Out of the Basement
Let's Go Downtown and Watch the Homely People Dance
Let's Not Go to Bed Mad
Like a Mom to Us
Lillian Asplund
Linda
Living Out of a Suitcase
Living Through a Datemare
Local Girl in the Final Four
Long Lunch with Kwame Ture
Looking Down on 2nd Street
Lost Loves of Our Lives
Lovely Lass from Russellville
Marwan Will Never Go
Mary and Kim's Pre-Nuptual Conversation
Me and You in New Orleans
Melting In The Sun
Michael’s Song
Midnight Escapade
Montreal
More Fred Rogers Than Anyone
Morning Too Soon
Mother Blues, Don’t You Love Your Son? Listen to Music
Move Over, Farm Boy
Mr. Seifert Proposed to Miss Barker in Class
My Boss is a Harvard Boy
My Fallback Life
My New Year's Date
My One-Hundred Percent Original PRO License-free Birthday Song
My One-Hundred Percent Original PRO License-free Soundcheck Song
My Place in Line
My Song About Why I Don’t Do Christmas Songs
My Wife is Off to Jury Duty Today
Naive
Nathan Asher's in the House
Netflix, Hulu, Disney, YouTube
No Good Business Here
No Hair
No One Else
No Safe Love
Not Young and Thin No More
Nothing a Puppy Won't Cure
Nun-ja Warriors
On Hold With the DOT
One Day I'll Sing this Song to You
One Man's Heaven
One More Breath Before She Opens the Door
One September Weekend
One-Sided Promises Listen to Music
Only I Can Let You Out
Over The Clouds
Out So Far . . . And It's So Late
Paid to Paint
Path to Me and You
People Who Don't See My Way
Pete Best of the Boston Crew
Picked Up in a Vinyard in Mainz
Please Don't Leave Today
Please Don't Tell Me Who He Is
Porque, Hermana?
Put Me In A Song
Put Steve Garvey in the Hall of Fame
Queen Elizabeth
Raining in the West
Rebound Thing
Repositioning My Life
Reunion
Ringing All the Time
Riverview
Russian Roulette
San Diego Listen to Music
Second Road to Justice
Send My Ashes to Them
Separate Ways
Seven of My Closet Friends
She Must Have Read My Eyes
Shiela Ann
She's Goin' in the Portal
She's Still Walkin'
Smoke at Home
Smokey Listen to Music
Springbrook
Someone Who Looks Like You
Sometimes I Answer the Robocalls
Stealing Big Joel Kinser's Song
Still the Matter of My Dreams
Sweet Child But a Monster Now
Tearing at My Heart
Tearing Down the Mill
Ten Second Glimpse of the Tasmanian Tiger
Thank God For Caller I.D.
That Derecho was a Badass Storm
The Best Part of the Dream
The Better of the Two of Us
The Bold Prose You Write
The Cop Shop Now
The Creator
The D.E.A.
The Loneliest Night of My Life
The Man Who Loves You
The Mayor of DeSoto
The Moment that I Realized
The Neighbor's Out for His Morning Walk
The Other Side of Your Heart (NOTE: This song is licensed by the thugs at BMI. Thus, I will not perform it in any establishment that doesn't have a BMI license.)
The People Down the Hall
The Prayer of a Mariupol Father
The Reason I Keep Coming Here
The Reason for Your Spite
The "S" Word
The Sandbag Line
The Shallow End of My Memory
The Story of My Life
The Weather Man's Trying to Scare Us
That RINO Robert Ray
The Words Come Out
The Young Spanish Prince Listen to Music
There's Some Leftover Meatloaf in the Fridge
These Demons
These Same Two Arms
They Tore Down Uptown Bill's Today
Thinking That's The Price
This Horrible Sense of Never
This Jail is a Crime
Threadbare Peace
Three Thousand Houses in Three Hundred Days
Throw Down the Ladders
Thursday
Time to Grieve
Time to Turn the Heartache Into Art
To Thaw
Toujours
Try to Tell Me
Two Yards Apart
Undefeated
Under the Bridge
Up for Grabs
What Another Man Has Listen to Music
What I Held in Reserve
What to Tell the Kids
What Was She Like in Our Day?
Whatever You Ask
When Baby Lester Turns 40 Listen to Music
When Jason Mamoa Comes Home
When One Size Fits All
When the Tide Rolls Inn
When the Water Runs Out on the Island
When You Come Back Again
When You Reach Out Your Hand
When Your 48 Hours Have Flown
When You're in Jail
Where the Boundaries Are
Where'd You Get That Scar?
Why Do I Act Like I Do?
Why is my License Void?
With My Martin in My Hands
Yankees Fans
Yesterday's Mail
You're in the Driver's Seat
Young Jack Trice
plus about four songs it’s better not mentioning by name!!
NOTE: These are the tunes you'll hear in my performances. If you want to record or perform a John Burns original, there are thousands and thousands more.