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01 TRIUMPH & DISASTER 1 :2002 SUN IS GONNA SHINE 3:3403 I GOTTA RUN 3:1004 THE WORLD AROUND ME 3:0705 CHAINS OF GOLD 4:2106 I HOPE I GET TO HEAVEN 4:4207 JULY JOSEPHINE 5:0208 A CHANGE IS GONNA COME 5:0009 HIGH HEELED HEARTBREAKER 3:3710 UP THERE I CAN FLY 3:5511 I ’M SORRY FEAT. KIM WEMPE 4:01 12 IN YOUR HEART TONIGHT 4:1813 TOAST & JAM 4:5214 WOLF WHO CRIED BOY 3:26

Produced by Chris Kirby for Dipole Productions

Recorded at Codapop Studios, Halifax, NSby Mike Hastings (lead engineer) and Erien Eady-Ward (2nd engineer)

Mixing, editing & secondary trackingby Scott Hammond at The Blue Room, Stephenville, NL

Additional editing by John Boulos, St. John’s, NLMastering by J LaPointe at Archive Mastering, Mineville, NS

Photography by Christopher Deutscher, Montreal, QCDesign & Layout by Jud Haynes, St. John’s, NL

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken, Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings, And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew, To serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in you, Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

IF ~ Rudyard Kipling

01 Triumph & Disaster (C. A’Court / C. Kirby) adapting literary work from “If” by Rudyard Kipling. (In public domain)

02 Sun Is Gonna Shine (C. A’Court / C. Kirby) adapting literary work from “If” by Rudyard Kipling. (In public domain)

03 I Gotta Run (C. A’Court / J. Robinson)04 The World Around Me (C. A’Court)05 Chains Of Gold (C. A’Court / C. Kirby)06 I Hope I Get To Heaven (C. A’Court / D. Simpson)07 July Josephine (C. A’Court)08 A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke / Abkco Music, Inc.)09 High Heeled Heartbreaker (C. A’Court / C. Kirby)10 Up There I Can Fly (C. A’Court / R. Hynes)11 I’m Sorry (C. A’Court / K. Wempe)12 In Your Heart Tonight (C. A’Court / C. Kirby)13 Toast & Jam (C. A’Court)14 Wolf Who Cried Boy (C. A’Court / J. Mingo)

All songs SOCAN except A Change Is Gonna Come

Charlie A’Court - vocals, electric & acoustic guitarsChris Kirby - vocals, piano & keyboards, acoustic guitar (1),

electric guitar (13), tuned champagne bottleKeith Mullins - drums, percussionKev Corbett - bass, banjo, mandolinJason Mingo - electric guitars

Backing vocals on tracks 1, 2, 6, 8, 9 by:Jessie BrownReeny SmithMarko Simmonds

The Mellotones are:Jeff Mosher - saxophoneJody Lyne - trumpetEric Landry - tromboneThe Mellotones appear on tracks 3, 4, 9, 13.

Anna Ludlow (fiddle) appears on track 7.Anna Plaskett (french horn) appears on track 5.Dawn Hatfield (flute) appears on track 3.Kim Wempe (vocals) appears on track 11.Michael Conway (ukulele) appears on track 12.String arrangement (track 11) composed, arranged & performed by Christopher John.Scott Hammond (rhythm guitar) appears on track 14.

TRIUMPH & DISASTERCharlie A’Court & Chris Kirby (CHAS Music - SOCAN)with adapted works from Rudyard Kipling.

If you can dream and not make dreams your master,If you can think and not make thoughts your aim,If you can meet with Triumph & Disaster,Treat those two impostors just the same.

I use to think life was all about getting what I can.Making money was the only love I thought I would have.Then one day I started thinking back when I was a kid.You know I should have listened up to what my grand daddy said.

SUN IS GONNA SHINECharlie A’Court & Chris Kirby (CHAS Music - SOCAN)with adapted works from Rudyard Kipling (Public Domain)

Living with this weight on my shoulder,Makes it hard to get around.I am looking for a place,Where I can lay my burden down.

Love surrounds me.It’s strong, it’s simple, it’s pure.No matter what may stand against me,One thing I know for sure.

Sun is gonna shine. Sun is gonna shine when the rain is done.Sun is gonna shine.Sun is gonna shine when the rain is done.

I have heard the truths I’ve spoken,Twisted by knaves, trapping fools.Seen many things in my life get broken,Built ’em back up with worn out tools.

Sun is gonna shine.Sun is gonna shine when the rain is done.Sun is gonna shine.Sun is gonna shine when the rain is done.

The work is hard but it’s worth it.So keep on believing and I promise.

Sun is gonna shine. Sun is gonna shine when the rain is done.Sun is gonna shine.Sun is gonna shine when the rain is done.Sun is gonna shine. Sun is gonna shine when the rain is done.Sun is gonna shine.Sun is gonna shine when the rain is done.

I GOTTA RUNCharlie A’Court & Jamie Robinson (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

I don’t care what it is you did.Just come home tonight.We can talk about it in the morning.Try to set things right.Isn’t life all about making mistakes,If we learn not to make them twice.Yes I guess my lesson learned is,Not to compromise.

What do you mean when you say you need,A change of scene unlike the one you’re in?What do you mean when you say,“It’s been fun but I gotta run.”

Headlines read, “Hearts will bleedWhen the truth unfolds.”Paper lies and thin disguises.Will we ever learn?

What do you mean when you say you need,A change of scene unlike the one you’re in?What do you mean when you say,“It’s been fun but I gotta run.”?

If you want I could pretend to be somebody else.To help you see by hurting me you only hurt yourself.

What do you mean when you say you need,A change of scene unlike the one you’re in?What do you mean when you say,“It’s been fun but I gotta run.”?

WORLD AROUND MECharlie A’Court (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

Brother is outside playing in the pouring rain.He’ll grow to be his own man someday.Footprints left in the sands of time.Get washed away by the storms of life.

If I find myself down on my knees,Would you help me stand again?If the world around me starts to break down,Would you cover me?

Children fighting wars they never started.Mama’s praying her boy will come home.News come down the line, somebody fired.Ripped through the crowd and her boy went down.


There is compassion in the hearts of the living.That never dies when the soul passes on.It don’t matter what shade of skin you’re wearing.‘Cause underneath we all want the same.


CHAINS OF GOLDCharlie A’Court & Chris Kirby (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

Baby, I can’t take it anymore.Baby, I can’t take it anymore.Please tell me, what are you looking for?

I know there has got to be a change.Oh I know there’s got to be a change.We can’t drown our fears in fancy champagne.

You can’t give me thorns and call it a throne.You can’t give me jail and call it my home.All this time we’ve been loving in vain.Chains of gold are chains just the same.

All I ever wanted was someone to love me for myself.All I ever wanted was someone to love me for myself.This ain’t love, no this is something else.


We are drawn to one another like a moth to the flame.We hold each other hostage, though we’re both to blame.


I HOPE I GET TO HEAVENCharlie A’Court & Dave Simpson (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

I hope I get to Heaven though I heaven’t earned the right.Searching for forgiveness and it ain’t easy to find.Peter grabs his coffee and heads out on a break.When Peter isn’t looking I can slip in through the gates.

Singing this song won’t save my soul.But the choir keeps on preaching my sins would be atoned.

If I could climb a mountain and look out from the peak.See the angels flying higher than I could ever reach.

Singing this song won’t save my soul.But the choir keeps on preaching my sins would be atoned.

I guess I’ll wait for judgement on my dying day.The sentence that I’m handed I would gladly pay.

Singing this song hasn’t saved my soul.But the choir keeps on preaching my sins would be atoned.Singing this song won’t save my soul.But I hear that choir preaching my sins have been atoned.Welcome home.

JULY JOSEPHINECharlie A’Court (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

Mind the time when you and I,We went out dancing in the rain.Man I thought I’d die laughing child.Funniest thing I’d ever seen.You looked up at the stars,And wondered how far it was to your dreams.It’s never as far as it may seem,As long as you believe.Shine your light and you might find,The flame burns brighter than the fire.

July Josephine, you have taken the best from me.I will be your fool just don’t hang me out to dry.

She said, “Let’s see the world.You be the boy and I will be the girl.You be my rock, I’ll be your pearl.Yeah, let’s fall in love.”In the morning when we wake,You can pray the heavens not to take our lives.The fight’s worth more than the prize,So don’t hang up your gloves.All those things you said to me,Are just a distant memory.

July Josephine, you have taken the best from me.I will be your fool just don’t go and hang me out to dry.

You could ride these ragged dreams,All the way to New Orleans and back.They’ve all but fallen off the track.It wasn’t supposed to be like that.

July Josephine, you have taken the best of me.I will be your fool just don’t go and hang me out to dry.Josephine, I would give most anything.I hope that in time your heart will find it’s way back home to mine.

A CHANGE IS GONNA COMESam Cooke (ABCKO Music)

I was born by the river in a little tent.Oh and like that river I’ve been running ever since.It’s been a long time coming but I know,A change is gonna come.

It’s be too hard living and I’m afraid to die.I don’t know what’s up there beyond the sky.It’s been a long time coming but I know,A change is gonna come.

I would go to the movies and I’d go downtown.People always tell me, “Don’t you hang around!”It’s been a long time coming but I know,A change is gonna come.

I would go to my brother.I would ask him, “Brother please!”But he winds up knocking me back down.Right back down on my knees.

There were times I thought I wouldn’t last too long.Now I see I’m able to stand up and carry on.It’s been a long time coming but I know,A change is gonna come.

HIGH HEELED HEARTBREAKER Charlie A’Court & Chris Kirby (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

Gave you all my affection.You couldn’t pay no attention to me.And I was too blind to see.You stood right there and looked me in the eye.You stood right there and you lied.And I still believed.

Like a lightning strike in the middle of the night,I don’t know where you’re coming from.Stilettos clicking on the ground snapping heads around.They don’t know you are a

High heeled heartbreaker.You come and you go anytime you please.High heeled heartbreaker.You are cruel and unusual queen.

You’re no lady when you drinking.Thinking these men all under your command.But they don’t understand.

Like a crooked little thief, building lies upon belief.They don’t know you are a

High heeled heartbreaker.You come and you go anytime you please.High heeled heartbreaker.You are cruel and unusual queen.

Right or wrong, you keep stringing me along.Like a lighting strike in the middle of the night, they don’t know you are

High heeled heartbreaker.You come and you go anytime you please.High heeled heartbreaker.You are cruel and unusual queen.High heeled heartbreaker.Changing my mind on everything.You are a high heeled heartbreaker.A wonderful hurting machine.

UP THERE I CAN FLYCharlie A’Court & Ron Hynes (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

Feeling like a holeTen thousand miles wideBeen ripped inside my heartI have lost my wayPieces falling downDon’t know where to start

I know you’ve been wanting to find a new place away from here.Space to be free, time to learn all the things you hold dear.Take me up there, I can fly if you let me try.

Feeling like my soulHas been beaten downRunning out of timeI have lost my faithSomewhere we’ve given upBetween your heart and mine

I know you’ve been wanting to find a new place away from here.Space to be free, time to learn all the things you hold dearTake me up there, I can fly if you let me try.

I ’M SORRY Charlie A’Court & Kim Wempe (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

Things were easy then.Love had built us a home.Over time the walls grew thin.Now they’re crumbling down.

Change is creeping in.Ain’t no use to pretend.Your face could never hide a thing.Our love has run aground.

But this silence ain’t no way to live.

I never meant to hurt you but I did.I only wanted to show you how I feel.I can’t give you back the tears that you cried.For that I’m sorry.

I won’t hold a grudge.It ain’t the way I was raised.It would make it easier to get passed the pain,If we had someone to blame.

If my heart could just let you go.

I never meant to hurt you but I did.I only wanted to show you how I feel.I can’t give you back the tears that you cried.For that I’m sorry.

I could learn to forgive.I could learn to forget.But I want you to know I have no regrets.

I never meant to hurt you but I did.I only wanted to show you how I feel.I can’t give you back the tears that you cried.For that I’m sorry.I never meant to hurt you but I did.I only wanted to show you how I feel.I can’t give you back the tears that you cried.For that I’m sorry.

IN YOUR HEART TONIGHTCharlie A’Court & Chris Kirby (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

Pretty baby, why won’t you let me love you?Did somebody out there hurt you?I know how that feels.But I swear, just as sure as you’re standing here.You know I’ll always be near.This is for real.

‘Cause when you cry I’m down.But when you smile I come around.You’re the only one I’m seeing.Let me show you how I’m feeling.

All day I think about you.Every word you say, every thing you do.All I want is to hold you tight.Do you think I could? Do you think you might?Let me in your heart tonight.

I would give all my fortune and fame.Just to hear you call my name.Make me tremble inside.When you touch me and you’re dancing all around me.I can feel you’re love surround me.I just cannot hide.

We could spend our days.Finding out new ways.To show each other every night.Why this love sure enough feels right.


My tongue gets tied.Love in deeper falling am I everyday.If you stand under what I say.


TOAST & JAM Charlie A’Court (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

She moves my soul in way I could never imagine.Her kindness, it is rivaled only by her compassion.When I’m lost she’s the hope that leads me home.I know, but for her, I would walk this world aloneShe is all I need in my life.My lover, my friend, my wife.

There are those I have known who would turn their back onloveThey are blinded and misguided; they believe they can livealone.They don’t know how a love can change your world.You have shown me so much joy I could never turn back now.You have stood right there by my side.My lover, my friend, my wife.You are all I need in my life.My lover, my friend, my wife.

Here we are hand in handWe go together just like Toast & Jam.

So today as we marry I will stand here; my head held high.For I will always be your husband and you’ll always be mywife.I can see our love in your eyes.My lover, my friend, my wife.You have stood right there by my side.My lover, my friend, my wife.You are all I need in my life.My lover, my friend, my wife.

WOLF WHO CRIED BOYCharlie A’Court & Jason Mingo (CHAS Music - SOCAN)

Waking up inside of a bad dream.Only to find I’m living someone else’s day.Guilty of making this look easy,When I’m getting away with murder in someone else’s name.

I am the wolf who cries boy.And the truth has no voice;In a world where lies are all we have.

The real me is not what you want to see.So it’s better if I just lie and leave the truth behind.Spinning around in circles I am desperate to have you believe I’mfine.Nothing hurts inside.


The thing that scares me the most is when,When someone gets to close and then,They can see me for who I really am.


Thanks

I want to, first and foremost, thank my amazing family for theirboundless love and support throughout this project and beyond.It’s because of your sacrifices that I’ve had the privilege to makemusic for the world. Thank you for giving me the courage to livethis life.

To the band of friends & musicians & crew who contributed andinvested their talent, spirit and trust into this album, it was my ab-solute privilege to work with each and everyone. You have madethis the album it is and for that I’m truly thankful.

Thank you to Bruce Morel for lighting the fire under me and be-lieving I’m worth taking to the world! I could not have broughtthis all together without the dedication and vision of Chris Kirby.You are a part of my family and I’m honoured to have workedwith you.

Thanks to Emily & Daniel, Mom, Matt, Dad, Tibor & Judy, Bruce& Jocelyne, Robert Lee & family, Meaghan & Jason, Kev &Steph, Keith & Jody, Chris & Iram, Chris & Lisa, Dana & Andre,Maddie, Leah, Yogi & Gail, Tammy Milbury and Doug Taylor atCodapop Studios, Derek & June, Kim Wempe, The Blue Room,Archive Mastering, Jud Haynes, John Boulos, Lynn Horne,Wendy Gilmour, Nancy Vaughan. Thanks to Amber Richards, Lex Luthier, Allyson Partridge, Bill & Margie Bernasconi, Tom & Susan Osborne, Christine Smith, Augie Palumbo, Ken Schweikert, Katherine Slack, Becky Connolly for yourpledge. Your support makes the difference!

To my fans: I have always tried to give my best to you and youhave always paid in kind.

Thank you for coming to my shows, emailing me, requesting mysongs on the radio, saying hello on the street and sharing yourlives with me as I have shared mine with you. I am humbled byyour compassion and acceptance and thankful for this wonderfulconversation we’ve continued to have over the years.

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