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You Make The Rain Go Away - The Valentine's Song.
Play this song for the one you love and enjoy the love you share!

I was fortunate to be able to record this track a few years back on my trip up to the North Pole. It features Santa Clause on vocals accompanied by the North Pole Big Band featuring Hermey the dentist on bells. It's a timeless recording for a timeless technology.
NOTE: I was also very lucky to get this photo of Santa auditioning a new reindeer named Bitzen.
: )

I wrote this one over 20 years ago and just recorded it at Studio 45B with the amazing instrumental and engineering talents of Grady James. Steve Stokes (formerly of the band Alabama) is featured on fiddle. Hope y'all enjoy it!

This song was written for dogs everywhere.

Cool Blue Water
Words & Music By John Barrett
Copyright 2022 – BMI Nashville

I was wishin I could disappear
Go fishin where the water’s clear
So I loaded up my truck and drove
A hundred miles to the Gulf Coast

Out on A pier with a cold beer
My fishin pole and my fishin gear
I cast out - as far as I could
I said a prayer - I hoped it was a good one

Kickin back when the line jerked
Lord I guess my little prayer worked
I reeled in and to my surprise
A mermaid Beauty at the end of the line

She said “Come with me baby cause I gotta plan”.
Then she smiled and she took my hand
She took me Oh, Oh, Oh
Down in The Cool Blue Water
She said “You know I’ve been looking for a good man
So goin fishin was a good plan
Now we goin low oh oh
Way down in the Cool Blue Water”

“Then together we swam away
Out past Pensacola Bay
And when we got to the coral reef
We dove down and I couldn’t believe - my eyes”

A little cottage in a valley
A Sea horse in the coralee
I thought I heard a church bell ring
Catfish settin on a porch swing

Now I’m living such a good life
2 kids and a beautiful wife
A mermaid daughter a Manatee son
Good Lord we have a lot of fun now – Come with me baby . . .

The Way of Happiness is about Drinking. In this song the main character sees a light in the window of the house where his true Love lives. He knows he should go to her to show her his affection and for the comfort of them both. Instead he is drawn by the pint there in his Father's old flask and for whatever irrational reason, he would rather get drunk alone than explore Love.

The Way of Happiness
Words & Music by John Barrett & JW Brown

There’s a light in her window this evening
But there’s a pint here in Daddy’s old flask
I should go to her yes, but it’s here that I’ll stay
For The Way of Happiness
For The Way of Happiness

You know the prince and the pauper they’ll forever get alone
Give a pint to them each and they’re blessed
But the lovers they leave, ah forever will grieve!
For The Way of Happiness
For The Way of Happiness

So with Daddy’s old pint for my courage
And with Mother’s fine locked up old locket
I went off to uncover the secret
To The Way of Happiness
The Way of Happiness

And Love it meant, Love is meant for You
And Love is meant, Love is meant for me too
So lay down your bloody arms lads and raise your pint true
For Love is meant, Love is meant for you
And Love is meant for me too

Here’s to my friends and the last time I saw them
To good luck when I thought it would last
To the lassie who passed me and threw me a kiss
To The Way of Happiness
To The Way of Happiness

There’s a light in her window this evening
But there’s a pint here in Daddy’s old flask