This one is about Judge Parker, a real person and a judge who preferred to hang his criminals rather than put them in jail. Surely he wasn't all that popular. This is one of our historical songs.

No particular story behind this one. The chorus came to me as I was driving. Later I wrote the verses around it. I wanted to try writing for the Southern Gospel genre but my concern with this song is that it is not biblical, per se.

This song is about the death of the steam-engine train that was replaced with the diesel. The story tells of the train's last run across the country. My co-writer and I have written numerous songs about people, places and things from out of the past. We are considering putting them onto a CD to make available at various Historical Societies in New England.