When I started writing songs in my late twenties, I had no idea of where that would take me, or whether it was a calling worth following. But song lyrics gave me a gratification that poetry did not, and within five years I had turned out about forty. Many were forgettable, but this is a baker’s dozen that I remember fondly. Several other of my early songs, including some that I cowrote with Andrée, appear in later lists. This includes:
1972
White Birds
Subway Singer
1973
Garden State Blues
Weather Song
Wigan Wife
1974
Heartrock Train
1975
Heart of Glass
1976
Fairy Child
Drury Mountain
1977
Lay Your Body Down
February Stone
Rock Star Blues
Asphalt Highway