Songs
To date, Ulz has written around 200 songs, some of which have been recorded by Hoyt Axton, Glen Yarborough, Suzy Bogguss, Valerie Carter, Rod McKuen, and others. Ulz has co-written songs with Hoyt Axton, Lowell George, Steve Mann, and others. Ulz's most famous song is Heartache, co-written with Lowell George and recorded by Suzy Bogguss in the 1990s. Bogguss's version of "Heartache" had considerable success on the country music charts. Most recently, Ulz's song Fire Truck! was published as a Sing-And-Read book by Scholastic. Fire Truck! is the only song that Ulz has written for children so far. Penned in 1990 on a red IBM Selectric typewriter, the song has become an underground anthem among preschoolers across the nation.
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“And our sov’reign sole Creator
Lives eternal in the sky,
While we mortals yield to nature,
Bloom awhile, then fade and die.”
—Unknown. “Hail ye sighing sons of sorrow,” l. 13-16, Social and Campmeeting Songs (1828)
“We can never see Christianity from the catechism:Mfrom the pastures, from a boat in the pond, from amidst the songs of wood- birds we possibly may.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)