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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
I've been walkin' in my sleep
Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep Where the years went I can't say I just turned around and they've gone away I've been siftin' through the layers Of dusty books and d papers They tell a story I used to know And it was one that happened so long ago : It's gone away in yesterday Now I find myself on the moutainside Where the rivers change direction Across the Great Divide Now, I hear the owl a-callin' Softly as the night was fallin' With a question and I replied But he's gone across the borderline The finest hour that I have seen Is the one that comes between The edge of night and the break of day It's when the darkness rolls away Twice |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
Well, I've listend tothe words you lovers speak
The sound f the lover's song And I've dreamed all the dreams that a wayward girl dreams In a thousand places gone Dallas was my late night out Radcliffe's served to roust me out And Houston lay like Cleavland with the color removed And all I ever wanted Was to wander and be wooed Like a Woman of the Phoenix A welcomed Waterloo I've seen the sun blaze the breast of the countryside I've seen her huddled in a winter freeze And I've run cross paths of a thousand lives Among the cactus and the white birch trees Avloc ran a waterfront bar Vito, he was the king of theives And Michael was a rock 'n roll hood from the Odessa plains Now, all of them were my kind Wild and damn near free But, a Woman of the Phoenix is the medicine they need |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
The name she gave was Caroline
Daughter of a miner And her ways were free It seemed to me The sunshine walked beside her She came to Spencer Across the hill She said he Pa had sent her 'Cause the coal was low And soon the snow Would turn the skies to winter She said she's come To look for work She was not seeking favors And for a dime a day And a place to stay She'd turn those hands to labor But the times were hard Lord The jobs were few All through Tecumseh Valley But she asked around And a job she found Tending bar at Gypsy Sally's She saved enough to get back home When spring replaced the winter But her dreams were denied Her Pa had died The word come down from Spencer So she turned a whorin' out on the streets With all the lust inside her And it was many a man Returned again To lay himself beside her They found her down beneath the stairs That led to Gypsy Sally's In her hand when she died Was a note that cried Fare thee well...Tecumseh Valley Repeat first verse |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
We returned to that five room flat
Now it was empty and this the last time Ther were blinking pictures Of how we'd sit and chat Some of them are scattered Others shattered in my mind Chorus: It was always three flights up Cathedral bells kept time In the winter, a-chatterin' cold While the building shook like rageweed in the wind Stories from the heat pipes We were told But now they only leave me With a half-enchanted grin Chorus Bridge: Bicycles squeezed down alley ways into view And towels warmed on oven doors To not freeze Was the only thing to do I wonder if we kept to the fair warning 'Cause I can see it in the flowers Dyin' on the window sil I know we must be out by tommorow mornin' But am I goin' 'gainst my will Chorus Bridge Repeat last verse Chorus |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
Oh I'm sailing away, my own true love
I'm sailing away in the morning Is there something I can send you from across the sea? From the place where I'll be landing? There's nothing you can send me, my own true love There's nothing I'm wishing to be owning Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled From across that lonesome ocean Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine Maybe silver or of golden Either from the mountains of Madrid Or from the coast of Barcelona If I had the stars of the darkest night And the diamonds from the deepest ocean I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss That's all I wish to be owning Oh, I might be gone a long ol' time And it's only that I'm asking Is there something I can send you to remember me by? To make your time more easy passing? How can, how can you ask me again? Well it only brings me sorrow Oh, the same thing I would want today I would want again tomorrow Oh, I got a letter on a lonesome day It was from his ship a-sailing Saying, I don't know when I'll be coming back again It depends on how I'm feeling If you, my love, must think that away I'm sure your mind is a-roaming I'm sure your thoughts are not with me But with the country where you're going So take heed, take heed of the western wind Take heed of stormy weather And yes, there is something you can send back to me Spanish boots of Spanish leather |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
You come home late
And you come home early You come on big When you're feelin' small You come home straight And you home curly Sometimes you just don't come home at all So what in the world's come over you? What in heaven's name have you done? You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness You're out there runnin' Just to be on the run Well, I got a heart that burns with a fever And I got a worried and jealous mind Well how can a love That will last forever Get left so far behind? So what in the world's come over you? What in heaven's name have you done? You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness You're out there runnin' Just to be on the run |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
(Ralph McTell) (Craic or crack is a term for fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.[1][2] It is often used with the definite article ? the craic. Some linguistic historians assert that craic was borrowed into Irish from the English language expression crack in the mid-20th century, and the Irish spelling was then reborrowed into English.)
Four who shared this room and we caught up in the craic, Sleeping late on Sundays and we never got to Mass Chorus It's a long way from Clare to here It's a long way from Clare to here It's a long, long way It gets further by the day It's a long, long way from Clare to here When Friday comes around we're only into fighting My Ma would like a letter home but I'm too tired for writing Chorus It almost breaks my heart when I think of my family I told them I'd be coming home with my pockets full of green Chorus The only time I feel alright is when I'm into drinking It can sort of ease the pain of it and it levels out my thinking Chorus I sometimes hear the fiddles play, maybe it's just a notion I dream I see white horses dance upon that other ocean Chorus |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
(Tom Paxton)
It's a long and dusty road It's a hot and heavy load And the folks I meet ain't always kind Some are bad and some are good Some have done the best they could Some have tried to ease my trouble in mind Chorus And I can't help but wonder where I'm bound Where I'm bound I can't help but wonder where I'm bound I've been wandering through this land Just doin' the best I can Tryin' to find what I was meant to do And the people that I see Look as worried as can be And it looks like they are wonderin',too Chorus And I had me a buddy back home But he started out to roam And I hear he's out by Frisco Bay And, sometimes, when I've had a few His old voice comes ringin' through And I'm goin' out to see him some old day If you see me passin' by And you sit and wonder why And you wish that you were a rambler,too Nail your shoes to the kitchen floor Lace 'em up and bar the door Thank the stars for the roof that's over you |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
well thousands of folks back east they say
are leaving home most everyday they're beatin the hot old dusty way to the california line across the desert sands they roll gettin' outta that old dust bowl they think they're going to a sugar bowl but here is what they find oh the police at the port of entrance say |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
This old town should've burned down in 1929
That's when we stood in line Waiting for our soup Swallowing our pride This old town should've burned down in 1931 When the rain refused to come Air filled up our bellies Dust filled up our lungs And we thought our time had come Chorus: This old town was built by hand In the dust bowl of the Mother land There must be rock beneath this sand Oh, I'll be damned This town still stands This old town should've burned down in 1944 When the last men went to war They came back different If they came back at all This old town should've burned down in 1956 That's when the twister hit And all our hopes were buried Beneath the boards and bricks And we almost called it quits (Repeat chorus) Bridge: Somewhere in the distance The city lights do shine The sidewalks gleam with neon dreams That call from time to time When my children's children Ask me why I didn't go They say the heart of any town Is the people that you've known They'll always call you home (Repeat chorus) |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
Flipped into the wind
Like the ashes of her cigarette He got scattered thrown on the breeze As he tried to forget He lost all his heat And his heart never will be the same He got lighter than air But he'll only come down in the rain Strung out and hung out to dry Laughin' under the line It's not such a dignified place But he really don't mind He says with his feet on the ground He'd have nothin' to say Claims he likes it up there And he'll only come down in the rain Chorus: Comin' down in the rain Washin' outta the sky Loaded down with the pain There just ain't no way to fly You can read him as clear As the wall where he once wrote his name It was right next to hers But it'll only come down in the rain Burnin' himself out on a limb Like a leaf in the fall He blazed for awhile Now he's feelin' all dried up and small The colors all gone Disappeared, near as quick as it came He says he can't stay up But, he'll only come down in the rain (Repeat chorus) You can read him as clear as the wall Where he once wrote his name It was right next to hers But he'll only come down in the rain |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
(Gordon Lightfoot)
He was standing by the highway With a sign that just said Mother When he heard a driver coming About a half a mile away So he held the sign up higher Where no decent soul could miss it It was ten degrees or colder Down by Boulder Dam that day He was raised up in Milwaukee Though he never was that famous He was just a road musician To the taverns he would go Singing songs about the ramblin' The lovin' girls and gamblin' How the world fell on his shoulders Back in Boulder I don't know Chorus And she told him she would take him For a ride in the morning sun Back in Boulder he had told her I don't know when, I've had a better friend It was out in Arizona That he heard the lady listening To each word that he was saying To each line that he would write So he sat down at her table And they talked about the weather 98.6 and rising down by Boulder Dam that night Chorus Now he's traded off his Martin Though his troubles ain't over His feet are almost frozen and the sun is sinking low Won't you listen to me brother, if you ever loved your mother Please pull off on the shoulder, if you're goin' Milwaukee way It's ten degrees and getting colder down by Boulder Dam today |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
(Jerry Jeff Walker)
As the morning light stretched in across my bed I thought of you Remembering your laughing eyes and all we said I love you too As all my thoughts of you pass 'fore my face a thousand times The way they race my heart I cannot say it all in lines How the short time together lasts so long Makes me strong As two weeks came and went then you and I were gone Living on For it seems our love was destined to be caught in other nets But the love we held so brief I'd chance again without regret Yes, standing by the road has been my song before Much too long But now somehow I'm forced to see me there once more And that's the song For my waking thoughts of you are but extensions of the dream Without you here beside me I'll never know all that they mean Repeat First Verse |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
While I was out a-ridin'
The graveyard shift midnight till dawn The moon was as bright as a reading light For a letter from an old friend back home Chorus He asked me Why do you ride for your money? Why do you rope for short pay? You ain't gettin' nowhere And you're losin' your share You must've gone crazy out there He said last night I ran into Jenny They married and have a good life Oh, you sure missed the track when you never came back She made the perfect professional's wife Chorus Bridge They've never seen the northern lights Never seen a hawk on the wing Never seen the spring hit the Great Divide Oh, they never heard old Camp Cookie sing I read up the last of my letter And tore off the stamp for Black Jim Little Dougie rode up to relieve me He just looked at my letter and grinned Chorus Bridge |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
(G. P. Cook - Ralph Roland)
Are you tired of me my darling? Did you mean those words you said? That have made me yours forever Since the day when we were wed Chorus Tell me, would you live life over Could you make another wife? Are you tired of me my darling? Answer only with your eyes Do you ever rue the springtime When we first each other met? How we spoke in warm affection Words my heart can ne'er forget Chorus Do you think the blooms departed From the cheeks you thought so fair? Do you think I've grown cold hearted Beneath the load of woman's cares? |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms (1993)
(Malvina Reynolds - Harry Belafonte - Allen Greene)
Where are you goin' my little one, little one? Where are you goin' my baby my own? Turn around and you're two Turn around and you're four Turn around and you're a young girl Going out the door Chorus Turn around Turn around Turn around and you're a young girl Going out of the door (Turn around and you're a young wife With babes of your own) Where are you goin' my little one, little one? Little dirndles and petticoats, where have you gone? Turn around and you're tiny Turn around and you're grown Turn around and you're a young wife With babes of your own Chorus Where are you goin' my little one, little one? Where are you goin' my baby my own? |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
(Nanci Griffith - Matthew Ryan)
This life is filled with wonder This life is full of days not spent Oh I cannot help but ponder What relevance that lends Chorus Oh but everything is comin' up roses And when I'm pushing daisies ... They'll want roses anyway Oh and everything's comin' up roses It's comin' up roses every day I've got a heart bent on confusion I'm punch drunk straight half the time I'm feeling watered down and diluted Still the weather's holdin' fine Chorus There's a piece of land in Kentucky My grandfather worked one long hot day Now it's a flatland blacktop strip mall Still, I remember what he'd say Chorus twice Everyday ... everyday ... buy the dozen ... everyday |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
(Nanci Griffith)
Out of the blue horizon Stretched a band of gold From the straits of Juan de Fuca To the east of Portland, Maine You held my hand As we raced along the buffalo bayou Chasing the tail of this globe You say one day, babe we're bound to 'cause it takes two for the road Chorus We're two of a kind heart Closing in the distances Now here comes our twilight part And we've had the best light of our days We're two rails that never crossed in anger Voices never raised Two of a kind heart Two for the road We have been blessed with dreaming You had Georgia's New Mexico And while your hands worked in China It was from Ireland I wrote Moving out from America From those buffalo bayou trails Now, didn't you tell me, babe, we'll have this globe By it's tail 'cause it takes two for the road Chorus And we can be anywhere and never leave home With your hand to hold ... we are two for the road Two of a kind heart ... two for the road |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
If you could stand behind my eyes for just one day
Could you see my heart beside you? If you knew my love had never flown away Would I be missing you ... wouldn't that be roses Wouldn't that be fine If I could wash away all these years with language Could this naked love survive the light of day If I could be the one who walked away Would you be missing me ... wouldn't that be roses Wouldn't that be fine? I saw the weather change high up on the cap rock It is my sense of place ... you were my holiday If you could hold me now and brace these broken shoulders Wouldn't that be trust ... wouldn't that be roses Wouldn't that be fine? If I could turn your head with the round of my pen Leaving all we've said ... behind us If I could roll these dice and finally loose my anger Wouldn't that be love ... wouldn't that be roses Wouldn't that be fine? |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
(Nanci Griffith - Margaret Mary Graham - Mikki Griffith)
Saint Teresa, your patron child's come home Were you there to greet her? Did your angels know her songs? And all her sorrows Did you lift them from her brow? Did you kiss her hand that took her soul Back up to you Our Patron saint of harmony and vow Help me in this stillness Tell me things I need to know How we loved your patron child We say, so long and so long ago Saint Teresa Can you speak to me at all Ah, from here where will we go? Saint Teresa Saint Teresa, she was our sister of arms Gone now the trio To Our Lady, Kate and John And fare to fare Of the tears that cannot fall We send this melody please help her sing along Back up to you Our Patron saint of harmony and song Back up to her Patron saint Beyond our wood those lights Saint Teresa of Avila Discalced de Carmelites Back up to her Patron saint Beyond our wood those lights Saint Teresa of Avila Discalced de Carmelites Saint Cecilia to Saint Teresa, "Your patron child is home" (There are lights beyond our woods) Saint Teresa of Avila Discalced de Carmelites (Lights) Saint Teresa of Avila Discalced de Carmelites (Lights) |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
(James Hooker - Nanci Griffith - Danny Flowers)
Gulf Coast Highway He worked the rails He worked the rice fields With their cool dark wells He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico The only thing we've ever owned Is this old house here by the road And when he dies he says he'll catch some blackbird's wing Then he will fly away to Heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring She walked through springtime When I was home The days were sweet The nights were warm The seasons change the jobs would come the flowers fade This old house felt so alone When the work took me away And when she dies she says; she'll catch some blackbird's wing Then she will fly away to Heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring Highway 90 The jobs are gone We tend our garden We set the sun This is the only place on earth blue bonnets grow Once a year they come and go At this old house here by the road And when we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wing Then we will fly away to heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring And when we die we'll catch some blackbird's wing We will fly away together come some sweet blue bonnet spring |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
(Sonny Curtis)
Breakin' rocks in the hot sun I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won I needed money and I had none I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the lawn won I left my baby and I feel so bad I guess my race is run She's the best girl that I ever had I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won Robbin' people with a zip gun I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won I miss my baby and good fun I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won Left my bay and I feel so bad I guess my race is run She's the best girl that I ever had I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
(Nanci Griffith)
I know you believe in miracles That this love will come back around I know you believe the grass is growing Across this winter To the south of this town I know your kiss is sweeter Than the dust that this love has become Yet, I know your path is clearer Shed of me, out there on your own I don't intend to sound ungrateful You've given love when I had none My feet had tread upon the road you're on And I know it's not my way home I know, it's not my way home I know, it's not my way home You know, this love has left us Don't count the years, it took a long time to kill I know you will find a place for memories And you'll be out there runnin', I will be here to be still |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
I have traveled far to be sitting here with you
And I will leave this place alone That's a sad and simple truth There is so little time and so much to say And I'll be none the wiser When I leave you here today Is this all there is I wanted so much more The gold in those hills The silver of the moors And now that I'm here Looking you head on You're the treasure that I left behind And all I'll ever miss The blame for losing love is blind Is this all there is It always stops me cold everytime I hear your name The friends that we have shared Know I'll never love the same I still hear your voice echo through the days Yet it never breaks my stride 'cuz we would always end this way Is this all there is I wanted so much more The gold in those hills The silver of the moors And now that I'm here Looking you head on You're the treasure that I left behind And all I'll ever miss The blame for losing love is blind Is this all there is We were really something Holding hands and walkin' Now, no amount of talkin' Could lend this love a place to go Is this all there is I wanted so much more The gold in those hills The silver of the moors And now that I'm here Looking you head on You're the treasure that I left behind And all I'll ever miss The blame for losing love is blind Is this all there is |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
(Nanci Griffith - Harlan Howard)
I will find somebody new Maybe tomorrow I will stop this missing you Maybe tomorrow Time's the healer time's the key So all the wise folks say Oh, maybe tomorrow But not today Life will once again make sense Maybe tomorrow I'll regain my confidence Maybe tomorrow True love is just around the bend But I really don't know when Oh, maybe tomorrow But not today There's a gorgeous morning in my future There are smiles waiting here Behind the tears Once again I'll be a friend worth having And just chalk this off As one of those years I will find somebody new Maybe tomorrow I will stop this missing you Maybe tomorrow Time's the healer time's the key So all the wise folks say Oh, maybe tomorrow But not today Oh, maybe tomorrow But not today |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
(Nanci Griffith)
Life is full of finer things They're lost and found in the dark It's the dog by the highway Who said,"Goin' my way?" Now, he lives in your own backyard He was waiting for love You came along and fit the part It's the whistle from the man With the kindest hands And a Norwegian name you can't say You meet him in the street Tripping over your own feet He claims you still anyway Waiting for love God forgives your lack of grace Chorus Everyone I know From my dust bowl to the city Is waiting for love (love) To start another day They may be shy of heart Oh, their pockets may be empty Yet they are waiting for love (love) And that's enough to fill our days It's the heartworn jokes of your dear father And the laughter in your own mother's heart It's that plane blowin' in With your love one within Who you've ached for in your time apart When you're waiting for love Life's a thread of paths to cross Chorus Whiter shade of pale is my best kept secret It's the song that'll sail me back home It's a picture in my hand Of my own farm land And the crops that I planted last spring When you're waiting for love You've got the finest life can bring Chorus When you're waiting for love (love) You've got enough to fill your days |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
(Nanci Griffith - Tom Littlefield)
This flesh and bone ain't much protection For an honest heart like mine A broken home for good intentions Damaged inventions of my design Chorus I'll move along (time to move along) I'll move along (time to move along) I'm slow to move these feet of clay You passed me by now you're in my way I take my change at my own damn pace I'll move along one day I'll move along (time to move along) (come on let's go) I'll move along (time to move along) (come on let's go) I don't say much I was born to listen Tell me now, did I hear you wrong? This was love not the Inquisition If it was my decision we should move along Chorus You passed me by now you're in my way I'll move along one day Chorus |
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from Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons (1997)
(Suzy Elkins - Robert Field)
There's a morning train Headed for New Orleans Carrying bussiness men and week day shoppers I have sixteen bucks and a dollar in change That's not bad price for a one way ride On a morning train I give you my devotion You left me heartsick Oh, you couldn't had hurt me more Not workin' with a night stick Now I'm tired of sharin' this bed of nails So come first light I'm gonna be right With the mornin' train Chorus So goodbye lover, I'm goin' undercover Crescent City's gonna swallow me Gonna skip my ring 'cross the Mississippi River When it sinks I wont' feel a thing When it sinks I won't feel a thing I'm gonna be stayin' With a short time acquaintance When I met him he was playin' On the Gulf Breeze Circuit He didn't play no hit songs or TV themes He's a guitar man just a hired hand From a local band Chorus The whistles blowin' clear and loud When I hit the station I'll take a taxi to the corner I'm gonna meet him by a street car Name of what-cha-ma-call-it My imagination Won't let us miss a thing Life's gonna be fine when I leave him behind On a mornin' train |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
WALL OF DEATH
(Richard Thompson) Let me ride on the wall of death one more time Let me ride on the wall of death one more time You can waste your time on the other rides But this is the nearest to being alive Oh let me take my chances on the wall of death You can go with the crazy people in the crooked house You can fly away on the rocket or spin in the mouse The tunnel of love might amuse you And Noah's Ark might confuse you But let me take my chances on the wall of death On the wall of death All the world is far from me On the wall of death It's the nearest to being free You're going nowhere when you ride on the carousel And maybe you're strong But what's the good of ringing a bell The switchback will make you crazy Beware of the bearded lady Oh let me take my chances on the wall of death Let me ride on the wall of death one more time Let me ride on the wall of death one more time You can waste your time on the other rides But this is the nearest to being alive Oh let me take my chances on the wall of death Oh let me take my chances on the wall of death Oh let me take my chances on the wall of death |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Sandy Denny)
Across the evening sky All the birds are leaving But how can they know It's time for them to go Before the winter fire I will still be dreaming I have no thought of time For who knows where the time goes Who knows where the time goes Sad deserted shore Your fickle friends are leaving Ah, but then you know It's time for them to go I will still be here I have not thought of leaving I have no thought of time For who knows where the time goes Who knows where the time goes And I am not alone While my love is near me I know it will be so Until it's time to go So come the storms of winter And then the birds in spring again I have no fear of time For who knows how my love grows And who knows where the time goes |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Sylvia Fricker)
When I got up this morning You were on my mind You were on my mind I got some aches and I got some pains and I got some wounds to bind So I went to the corner Just to ease my pain Just to ease my pain I got drunk and I got sick and I came home again Well I woke up this morning You were on my mind And you were on my mind I got troubles I got worries I got wounds to bind I got a feeling down in my shoes Way down in my shoes I got to move on I got to travel I got to walk away my blues When I got up this morning You were on my mind You were on my mind I got some aches and I got some pains and I got some wounds to bind |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Sonny Curtis)
I want you to tell me Why you walked out on me I'm so lonesome everyday I want you to know That since you walked out on me Nothing seems to be the same ole way Think about the love that burns Within my heart for you The good times we had Before you went away, oh me Chorus Walk right back to me this minute Bring your love to me Don't send it I'm so lonesome everyday These eyes of mine That gave you loving glances once before Changed to shades of cloudy gray I want so very much to see you Just like before I gotta know you're comin' back to stay Please believe me when I say It's great to hear from you But there's a lotta things a letter just can't say, oh me Chorus I'm so lonesome everyday I'm so lonesome everyday I'm so lonesome everyday |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Tom Russell)
In the hills of Montana There's a timber wolf howlin' The rangers are prowlin' For a woman alone She'd run away from an Indian lover He'll never recover She turned him to stone Chorus She drank Canadian whiskey Pure blended whiskey She drank it like wine Her eyes were the color of Canadian whiskey Pure blended whiskey So light brown and fine Twenty years later I heard of a woman She's living alone Up by Yellowstone Creek And old Trapper John Brings her cases of whiskey Canadian whiskey He says she never will speak Chorus (Twice) |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Guy Clark)
And I'd play the red river valley And he'd sit in the kitchen and he'd cry And run his fingers Through seventy years of living And wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry We were friends me and this old man Like desperadoes waiting for a train Like desperadoes waiting for a train Well he's a drifter and a driller of oil wells And an old school man of the world He taught me how to drive his car When he's too drunk to And he'd wink and give me money for the girld And our lives were like some old western movie Like desperadoes waiting for a train Like desperadoes waiting for a train From the time that I could walk He'd take me with him To a bar called the green frog cafe There was old men with beer guts and dominoes Lying about their lives while they played And I was just a kid They all called me sidekick Like desperadoes waiting for a train Like desperadoes waiting for a train One day I looked up and He was pushing eighty And there was brown tobacco stains All down his chin To me he was one of the heroes Of this country So why's he all dressed up like them old men Drinking beer amd playing moon and forty-two Like desperadoes waiting for a train Like desperadoes waiting for a train And then the day before he died I went to see him And I was grown and he was almost gone So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen And sang another verse to that old song Come on, jack, the son-of-a-bitch is coming We're like desperadoes waiting for a train Like desperadoes waiting for a train (4 times) |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
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On the wings of a snow white dove He sends his pure sweet love A sign from abouve- a sign from above On the wings of a dove. When trouble surrounds us When evil's come The body grows weak The spirit grows strong When these things beset us He doesn't forget us He sends down his love - sends down his love On the wings of a dove chorus When noah had drifted On the flood many days He searched for land In various ways Troubles he had some But wasn't forgotten He sent down his love - sent down his love On the wings of a dove chorus 2x |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(John Grimaudo - Saylor White)
And she has a dress of laces It's worn in many places The shoulder hangs upon her by a thread And she has a need for ahrin' For someone warm and carin' And no one sees a heart that's underfed Chorus Young girl in love Young girl in tears She hasn't seen the man she loves in years And her mother is a waitress At the harbour bar, good graces Where the seamen come a fishin' with their lines And it was one of them that caught her And left her with a daughter Who lives with hate and loving him in mind Chorus So the young girl goes to the water And she calls out for her father But she ain't seen the old man in some time Yes, and he was always boastin' Just a drinkin' and a toastin' And one day he left his family behind Chorus So the mother comes home a drinkin' With a sailor who's a tinkin' out loud That he might stay with them awhile So she loads her mother's pistol And she shoots him as he whistles A song about a sailor's life in style Young girl in love Young girl in tears She kills the only man she's loved in years And with him dies her hopes, her dreams, her fears Repeat First Verse And no one sees a heart that's underfed |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Ian Tyson)
Never hit seventeen When you play against the dealer You know that the odds Won't ride with you And never leave your woman alone With your friends around to steal her She'll be gambled and gone Like summer wages And we'll keep rollin' on 'Til we get to Vancouver And the woman that I love She's living there It's been six long months And more since I've seen her Years have gambled and gone Like summer wages In all the beer parlors All down along Main Street The dreams of the seasons Get all spilled down on the floor All the big stands of timber Just waiting for the falling And the hookers stand watchfully Waiting by the door So I'll work on the towboats With my slippery city shoes Which lord I swore I would never do again Through the the gray fog-bound straits Where the cedars stand watching I'll be far off and gone Like summer wages Never hit seventeen When you play against the dealer You know that the odds Won't ride with you And never leave your woman alone With your friends around to steal her She'll be gambled and gone Like summer wages And the years are gambled and lost Like summer wages |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Traditional)
He was a friend of mine He was a friend of mine Never had no money To pay for his fine He was a friend of mine He never done no wrong He never done no wrong Thousand miles from home He never hurt no one He was a friend of mine He died on the road He died on the road Never had no money for to pay for sufficient clothes (He was a friend) He was a friend of mine (I stole) I stole away and cried (I stole) Never had no money and I can't be satisfied He was a friend of mine (He was)he was a friend of mine (He was) he was a friend of mine When I hear his name you know I just can't keep from cryin' (and) (He was) he was a friend of mine (He was) |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Stephen Collins Foster)
Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears While we all sup sorrow with the poor There's a song that will linger forever in our ears; Oh, hard times come again no more Chorus 'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary Hard times, hard times come again no more Many days you have lingered Around my cabin door Oh hard times come again no more While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay There are frail forms fainting at the door Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say; Oh, hard times come again no more Chorus There's a pale sorrowed maiden who toils her life away With a worn heart whose better days are o'er Though her voice would be merry, 'tis sighing all the day Oh, hard times come again no more Chorus 'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave 'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore 'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave Oh, hard times come again no more Chorus |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Traditional)
Chorus Wasn't that a mighty storm Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning, well Wasn't that a mighty storm That blew all the people away You know the year of 1900 Children, many years ago Death cakme howling on the ocean Death calls, you got to go Now Galveston had a seawall To keep the water down, and a High tide from the coean Spread the water over the town Chorus You know the trumpets gave them waring You'd better leave this place Now, no one thoght of leaving 'Til death stared them in the face And the trains they all were loaded The people were all leaving town The trestle gave way to the water And the trains they went on down Chorus Rain it was a' falling Thunder began to roll Lightning flashed like hell fire The wind began to blow Death the cruel master When the wind to blow Rode in on a team of horses I cried,"Death, won't you let me go" Chorus Hey, now trees fell on the island And the houses give way Some they strained and drowned Some died in most every way And the sea began to rolling And the ships they could not stand And I heard a captain crying "God save a drowning man" Chorus Death your hands are clammy You got them on my knee You come and took my mother Won't you come back after me And the flood it took my neighbor Took my brother too I thought I heard my father calling And I watched my mother go Chorus You know the year of 1900 Children, many years ago Death came howling on the ocean Death calss, you got to go Chorus (Twice) |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Mickie Merkens)
I packed up my suitcase Pulled down my old bedroll And I started to wander Far from my home And the time it passed quickly And the days seemed to be hours Far from your city And Yarrington Town Well, I wandered through the midnights Of sea-bordered bar lights And I wandered through the forests As deep as the sea But I never got lonesome Until I'd hear a sad song One to remind me of Yarrington Town Well, I followed a miner To his home in the North woods And he promised to love me As long as I'd stay And I even saw lightning Touch a stone in the mine field Could not touch the lightning In Yarrington Town So I packed up my suitcase I pulled out my old bedroll And I started to wander On back to my home And the time it passed slowly And the days seemed to be years Far from your city And Yarrington Town I'm going home to your city And Yarrington Town |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Johnny Cash - Roy Cash, Jr)
At my door the leaves are falling The cold wild wind will come Sweethearts walk by together And I still miss someone I go out on a party To look for a little fun But I find a darkened corner Because I still miss someone Chorus Oh, I never get over those blue eyes I see them everywhere I miss those arms that held me When all the love was there I wonder if she's sorry Fr leaving what we've begun There's someone for me somewhere But I still miss someone Chorus Repeat First Verse Oh, I still miss someone |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Pat McLaughlin)
Before you marry, before you mend Or have someone's children, long before then You could find something with somebody new Try the love I'm offering in my open arms Before you do We should have quarreled, it's so unwise To cut yourself loose with only some lies Wasn't my first time, it won't be my last Try the love that took only a minute to grow It won't die that fast Bridge Try the love that the keeper of the keys Told me one time was clearly not for me He's not keepin' no more It's the kind when held up to a flame Whispers one word, darlin' always your name Of this you can be sure I have a home now. you should come back It's got so much room that I can't unpack This is my wish, dear, a now spoken truth Try the love that once hidden now seems so alive It's waiting on you Bridge Try the love that onec hidden now seems so alive It's waiting on you |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Harlan Howard - Tompall Glaser)
I sold the farm to take me woman Where she longed to be We left our kin and all our friends Back there in Tennessee I bought the one way tickets She had often begged me for And they took us to the streets of Baltimore Bridge 1) (1st Section) Well my heart was filled with laughter When I saw those city lights She said the prettiest place on earth Was Baltimore at night 2) (2nd Section) Well, a man feels proud to give his woman What she's longing for And I kind of liked the streets of Baltimore I got myself a factory job I ran an old machine We bought a little cottage In a neighborhood serene But every night when I came home With every muscle sore She would drag me through the streets of Baltimore Bridge 1) (1st Section) Well, I did my best to bring her back To what she used to be But, I soon learned she loved those bright lights Much more than she loves me 2) (2nd Section) Now I'm goin' back on that same train That brought me here before While my baby walks the streets of Baltimore Tag Yes, my baby walks the streets of Baltimore |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Tom Campbell - Steve Gillette)
Where the Walker runs down into the Carson Valley plain There lived a young maiden Darcy Farrow was her name The daughter of old Dundee and a fair one was she The sweetest flower that bloomed o'er the range She was courted by young Vandermeer And quite handsome was he I am to hear He brought her silver rings and lacy things And they promised to marry before the snows came that year But her pony did stumble and she did fall Her dyin' touched the hearts of us, one and all Young Vandy in his pain put a bullet in his brain And we buried them together as the snows began to fall They sing of Darcy Farrow where the Truckee runs through They sing of her beautyin Virginia City too At dusty sundown to her name they drink a round And to young Vandy whose love was true Where the Walker runs down into the Carson Valley plain There lived a young maiden Darcy Farrow was her name The daughter of old Dundee and a fair one was she The sweetest flower that bloomed o'er the range |
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from Nanci Griffith - Other Voices Too (1998)
(Pete Seeger - Lee Hayes)
If I had a hammer I'd hammer in the morning I'd hammer in the evening all over this land I'd hammer out danger I'd hammer out a warning I'd hammer out the love between my brothers and my sisters All over this land If I had a bell I'd ring it in the morning I'd ring it in the evening all over this land I'd ring out danger I'd ring out a warning But I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters All over this land If I had a song I'd sing it in the morning I'd sing it in the evening all over this land I'd sing out danger I'd sing out a warning I'd sing out love between my brothers and my sisters All over this land Well I got a hammer And I got a bell And I got a song to sing all over this land It's the hammer of justice It's the bell of freedom And it's the song about love between my brothers and my sisters All over this land |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fields
When the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yield The trains roll by our silos, silver in the rain They leave our pockets full of nothing But our dreams and the golden grain Have you seen the folks in line downtown at the station They're all buying their ticket out and talking the great depression Our parents had their hard times fifty years ago When they stood out in these empty fields in dust as deep as snow [Chorus:] And all this trouble in our fields If this rain can fall, these wounds can heal They'll never take our native soil But if we sell that new John Deere And then we'll work these crops with sweat and tears You'll be the mule I'll be the plow Come harvest time we'll work it out There's still a lot of love, here in these troubled fields There's a book up on the shelf about the dust bowl days And there's a little bit of you and a little bit of me In the photos on every page Now our children live in the city and they rest upon our shoulders They never want the rain to fall or the weather to get colder [Chorus] You'll be the mule I'll be the plow Come harvest time we'll work it out There's still a lot of love, here in these troubled fields |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
The wing and the wheel... they carry things away
whether it's me that does the leavin' or the love that flies away The moon outside my window looks so lonely tonight oh, there's a chunk out of it's middle... big enough for an old fool to hide Where are all the dreamers... that I used know? We used to linger beneath street lamps in the halos and the smoke The wing and the wheel... came to carry them away now they all live out in the suburbs where their dreams are in their children at play There's a pale sky in the east... all the stars are in the west Oh, here's to all the dreamers... may our open hearts find rest The wing and the wheel are gonna carry us along And we'll have memories for company... long after the songs are gone |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
Shut it down and call this road a day
And put this silence in my heart in a better place I have travelled with your ghost now so many years That I see you in the shadows In hotel rooms and headlights You're coming up beside me Whether it's day or night These days my life is an open book Missing pages I cannot seem to find These days your face In my memory Is in a folded hand of grace against these times No one's ever come between your memory and me I have driven this weary vessel here alone Will you still find me if I leave you here beside this road Cuz' I need someone who can touch me Who'll put no one above me Someone who needs me Like the air he breathes I can't remember where this toll road goes Maybe it's Fort Worth, maybe it's a heart of gold The price of love is such a heavy toll That I've lived my life in the backroads With your love in my pocket If I spend the love you gave me Tell me where will it go? These days your face In my memory Is in a folded hand of grace Folded hand of grace Folded hand of grace Against these times |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
Love at the Five and Dime
Rita was sixteen years Hazel eyes and chestnut hair She made the Woolworth counter shine And Eddie was a sweet romancer And a darn good dancer And they waltzed the aisles of the five and dime And they'd sing Dance a little closer to me Hey, dance a little closer now Dance a little closer tonight Dance a little closer to me Hey, it's closing time And love's on sale Tonight at this five and dime verse: Eddie played the steel guitar And his mama cried 'cause he played in the bars And he kept young Rita out late at night Soon they married up in Abelene Lost a child in Tennessee But still that love survived One of the boys in Eddie's band Took a shine to Rita's hand So , Eddie ran off with the bass man's wife Oh, but he was back by June Singin' a different tune Sporting Miss Rita back by his side Eddie played in the barroom band 'Til arthritis took his hands Now he sells insurance on the side And Rita's got her house to keep She sells dime store novels with a love so sweet And they dance to the radio late at night and still sing |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
I'm working on a morning flight to anywhere but here
I'm watching this evening fire burn away my tears All my life I've left my troubles by the door Leavin' is all I've ever known before [Chorus:] It's not the way you hold me when the sun goes down It's not the way you call my name that left me stranded on the ground It's not the way you say you hear my heart when the music ends I am just learning how to fly away again It's not the way you say you hear my heart when the music ends I am just learning how to fly away again And maybe you were thinkin' that you thought you knew me well But, no one ever knows the heart of anyone else I feel like Garbo in this late night grande hotel Cause living alone is all I've ever done well [Chorus: x2] |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
(Charles Hardin - J. I. Allison)
Tell me how to keep your love You know how I need your love Tell me how you keep the love Within your heart from me Don't you know that I love you Let me show why I'm true blue When I know a love is true Don't keep your love for me If you would say to me today The time for love is now Could I sway your love my way Then I say,"Tell me how." Tell me how to keep your love You know how I need your love Tell me how you keep the love Within your heart from me (Instrumnetal break) Tell me how to keep your love You know how I need your love Tell me how you keep the love Within your heart from me If you would say to me today The time for love is now Could I Sway you love my way Then I say,"Tell me how" Tell me how to keep your love You know how I need your love Tell me how I need your love Within your heart from me (Instrumnetal break) Tell me how you keep my love Within your heart from me |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
(Nanci Griffith)
I know you believe in miracles That this love will come back around I know you believe the grass is growing Across this winter To the south of this town I know your kiss is sweeter Than the dust that this love has become Yet, I know your path is clearer Shed of me, out there on your own I don't intend to sound ungrateful You've given love when I had none My feet had tread upon the road you're on And I know it's not my way home I know, it's not my way home I know, it's not my way home You know, this love has left us Don't count the years, it took a long time to kill I know you will find a place for memories And you'll be out there runnin', I will be here to be still |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
(Nanci Griffith)
Oh, it sat in this corner for many a year Through fireside parties, of tears and cheers The hands of James Hooker flew over its keys And God know who who else 'fore it came to me When I was alone I could be Julie Gold It rang her "From A Distance" just like it was my own I'd pretend I've the voice of Beth Nielsen Chapman I wrote "Late Night Grande (Hotel)" With just my right hand happenin' Chorus Now its keys rent the air in its new place to stand A gift for the children who'll play right and left hand Just a 1937 pre-war Kimball Oh, the grace of that three-quarter grand Oh, the grace of that three-quarter grand Oh, the grace of that three-quarter grand Oh, it's lonesome in this corner at five am I'd called Harlan Howard, only he'd understand All of those melodies that came to be Mornings in that corner ... that piano and me I wish for a left hand like Glen D. Hardin I could play Jimmy Webb or perhaps Randy Newman Ah, it's a blessing it never met Jerry Lee's feet Just the hands of those children Is all this Kimball needs I've let it go ... let it go That piano I bought from Al Jones long ago I've let it go, I've let it go I smiled as it rolled out the door The songs that we wrote, ah, not for note That piano will always know Chorus And God bless the child Who's got a song Who's got a song Who's got a song |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
(Nanci Griffith)
Life is full of finer things They're lost and found in the dark It's the dog by the highway Who said,"Goin' my way?" Now, he lives in your own backyard He was waiting for love You came along and fit the part It's the whistle from the man With the kindest hands And a Norwegian name you can't say You meet him in the street Tripping over your own feet He claims you still anyway Waiting for love God forgives your lack of grace Chorus Everyone I know From my dust bowl to the city Is waiting for love (love) To start another day They may be shy of heart Oh, their pockets may be empty Yet they are waiting for love (love) And that's enough to fill our days It's the heartworn jokes of your dear father And the laughter in your own mother's heart It's that plane blowin' in With your love one within Who you've ached for in your time apart When you're waiting for love Life's a thread of paths to cross Chorus Whiter shade of pale is my best kept secret It's the song that'll sail me back home It's a picture in my hand Of my own farm land And the crops that I planted last spring When you're waiting for love You've got the finest life can bring Chorus When you're waiting for love (love) You've got enough to fill your days |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
Something's disturbed me
I'm out of your company Im out of the country With another man's heart I'm angered and doubtful And I'd shout a earful But nothing comes out When I open my mouth I'm nobody's angel now (she's out of the country now) I'm nobody's angel now (she's out of the country now) Cuz' if I can't give love I can't rise up above these clouds So, I'm nobody's angel now I was the forest for love songs The one who can't love wrong The one who won't fall But will still write it down I'm the one who would understand Who listens with pen in hand On everyone's shoulder Till it's me who falls down I'm nobody's angel now (she's out of the country now) I'm nobody's angel now (she's out of the country now) Cuz' if I can't give love I can't rise up above these clouds So, I'm nobody's angel now I'm grounded and rusty My dance card is dusty now Because I wanted to be What the angels see When they look down Just a couple on the avenue With their feet on the ground I'm nobody's angel now Something's disturbed me I'm out of your company I'm out of the country now Something's disturbed me I'm out of your company I'm out of the country now I'm nobody's angel now (she's out of the country now) Nobody's angel now (she's out of it) I'm out of the country now I'm out of the country now And nobody's angel now |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Dustbowl Symphony (1999)
I saw you on the avenue
You looked so tired and a little blue You were in your Sunday best Your father's tie upon your chest Hey, you always stood me still Hey, you always will In the corridor of one hotel We once crossed paths I recall it well Voices in an empty hall Slamming doors to hearts that fall Hey, you always stood me still Hey, you always will Always will Always will Hey Always will Always will Hey Love has been my passer by I stood too still to catch your eye But there out on the avenue In your father's tie I'll remember you Hey, you always stood me still Hey, you always will Hey, you always stood me still Hey, you always will Hey, you always will |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
(Nanci Griffith)
I am a clock without hands I'm walking through the midnights Counting all the moments Of the loves I've left behind Crying on the shoulders of the days I've not forgotten now I am frozen in time Like the battles of the soldiers Left displaced of time Where their tears still fall Loves that wreck out on the track Far beyond my looking back to recall I'm just a clock upon the shelf Without hands to give the time of day For love at all Chorus I am a clock without hands No one understands this That when the autumn comes I see no reason for a fall Spring can fail to move me With its tulips and its clover Now the time for love is over I am a clock without hands I'm just tickin' and that's all I recall a time When love still had the power To reach inside this clock Where my hands held a dream The innocence of passion And the words of Saint Teresa chiming in And I recall the faith Of the love of my life And the loosing of my hands Which he took with him when he died I'm crying on the shoulders of his love That I'm remembering now It's been ages since this heart has ticked a beat of love So I've forgotten how Chorus |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
(Nanci Griffith)
Nothing that I've ever seen Now means much of anything In traveling through this part of you And the Vietnam that I had dreamed The place you wore your life "fatigued" I'm traveling through this part of you Chorus Where are you amongst this madness On the streets of Saigon? Where were you in 1969? When I was but a youth Oh, here were you You were traveling through this part of you I'll make my way now on my own Back to my home to live alone I have traveled through this part of you Yet, I will save this time and place For the time when I can say I traveled truth this part of you Repeat Chorus You were an American boy Whose innocence was lost here in the wat And I wear your scars While traveling through this part of you Nothing that I've ever seen Now means much of anything In traveling through this part of you And the Vietnam that I had dreameed The place you wore your life "fatigued" I'm traveling through this part of you I'm traveling through this part of you I'm traveling through this part of you |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
(Paul Carrack)
Tell me where Would I be now without you Without an angel Watching out for me Took a long, long time For me to realize All my faith in you Was so justified Tell me where Would I be without you Where would I turn To find the truth I need I could never go back To where I used to be I've got so used to having All the love you give to me Tell me where Would I be without you now And every time I stumble or fall I call your name and you'll be there Or if I should fly too high I know your love will reach me anywhere I could never go back To where I used to be I've got so used to having All the love you give to me Tell me where Would I be now without you Would I be lost Just drifting out to sea If I could start all over I wouldn't change a thing 'Cause I know you'll always Be there through thick and thin Tell me where Would I be without you now |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
(Nanci Griffith)
Are you sleeping now? It's midnight in Missoula Where the Black Hills know your name Is the snow piled high around your window frame? Is there enough frost left to write our names upon the pane? Chorus Are you sleeping now? It's midnight in Missoula Are you sleeping now? It's midnight in Missoula I am down in Rio where I cannot find the sky Our savior on that mountaintop has taught my soul to fly I am singing Gershwin and children's lullabies And wondering of you And if you're sleeping in Missoula tonight? Chorus I'd love to climb your hilltop and look out upon Missoula lights Sing Samuel Barber melodies with your viola sweet and high But I am off to Liverpool on an early evening flight And wondering of you And if you're sleeping in Missoula tonight Chorus Repeat First Verse Chorus Are you sleeping now? Do you know how much I love ya? Are you sleeping now? It's midnight in Missoula |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
(John Stewart)
Any given day there's a jet flying somwhere Oh, we bought a ticket and vanished in the sky And how was I to know he was leaving in the morning I never heard him go and then he never said goodbye I've learned to love the night cause the light's gonna get ya Right between the eyes in the morning like a gun And reaching out your hand and he's not there beside you Oh, what can I say, I lost him in the sun Hey and what have I done? I lost him in the sun I lost him in the sun Chorus Oh, I lost him in the sun Oh, I lost him in the sun Yeah I lost him in the sun Yeah I lost him in the sun Fire up your hearts cause the wind is getting cold It always get cold for the riders of the night You carry that scar when you know what lonely is Looking for a home like a bird, like abird in flight Oh and what have I done? Yeah I lost him in the sun Yeah I lost him in the sun Chorus |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
All the papers lie tonight
But falling over you Is the news of the day Angels fall like rain And love, is all of heaven way Inside you the time moves and she don fade The ghost in you she don fade away The race is on, I on your side But hearing you my engines died I in the mood for you Or for running away All the stars come down in you But love, love, love you cant give it away Inside you the time moves and she don fade The ghost in you she don fade Inside you the time moves and she don fade away Dont you know she don fade Dont you go it makes no sense And all these talking supermen Just take away the time just to get it away Aint it just like the rain Cause love, love, love, love is only heaven away Inside you the time moves and she don fade The ghost in you she don fade away Inside you the time moves and she don fade away The ghost in you she don fade A man in my shoes runs a light But all the papers lie tonight Falling over you is the news of the day And love will not fade away And love love love will not fade away |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker)
Oh love is a hand you hold When you think you've lost your mind It is bitter as persimmons Yet as sweet of rose on vine It's the thorns upon the vines That sometimes tear two hearts entwined It's a gentle breath upon your cheek That is so truly fine Chorus Love is something truly fine Love is love and truly blind Love is only human kind Love is something truly fine Oh love is something truly fine Something never looked to find Yet truly something fine You and I are roses Chose to wither on the vines With you, you're back to love With me, I've run from mine We are some kind of weather You're the storm blown 'cross my life I am leaf of autumn A fallen tear of something fine Chorus From the shallows of the Mekong To my Liffey, Dublin's wine The tide turned me around And brought the taste of something fine And something's truly lost As I'll not try to change your mind The thorns of taking chances Made it something truly fine Chorus |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
If I came back to the land of cotton,
Would you love just me? Old loves lost are ne'er forgotten: That's the way it's supposed to be. Are you short or are you long? Are you easy to see? Are you weak or are you strong? Makes no never to me. All the ballerina sees when her world's on fire, Is where she puts her feet. If she burns her toes, she'll just jump higher, Never skip a beat. I've been good most of the time, Since you last saw me. You come 'cross my mind from time to time, Now look at me. I'm standing at your door with my heart in your hands. Ain't you gonna ask me in? If you say: "No", I'll understand, dear, And never come south again. If I came back to the land of cotton, Would you love just me? Old loves lost are ne'er forgotten: That's the way it's s'posed to be. |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
(Nanci Griffith)
He still sends her roses on the 4th of July They're always white roses and she never asks why She still doesn't know where he goes Thursday nights But his wedding band rests, on the bedside that night He was a soldier in the Vietnam war He lost half his right leg whilst daydreaming of her She lit a candle each holy hour he was gone "You Were On My Mind" was their favorite song Chorus Love is a mystery From birth 'till we die It's cross words of a morning By evening entwined It's all that we dream of, sometimes it's not right Love is white roses and you never ask why He's the hands of a draftsman, he's built a good life She works for a season during IRS time Two children they've had though their boy has now died When they wake of each morning, he's still on their minds Their friends would all tell you they're like day and night Their daughter's an actress, she is strong and she's bright He meets with his pals from the war Thursday nights She still treasures those roses every 4th of July Chorus Love is white roses every 4th of July |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
Snowing - through South Dakota I once drove
With the wife of my best pal Who cloaks her heart from cold with gold It was well into the winter Of December in the cold Off to see Mount Rushmore staring through the snow And to gamble with the boys of Deadwood As we drove Snowing - I am shaking out the snow Oh, the cold that is within my heart I'm gonna shake out all that snow Riding years ago Through those South Dakota roads When the laughter could thaw Enderby And shake me from the snow Like a hurricane through Florida I'll shake out all this snow Snowing - one Christmas morn' when I was four My brother told me it was warm So a swimsuit I adorned Then he sent me to the weather And behind me locked the doors A four year old in a swim suit and brand new plastic skates Out into the snow to catch this cold I cannot shake Snowing - yeah, it snows in Tennessee The place where I now make my life Is still snowing down on me I'd prefer Antarctica Perhaps the land of Enderby Where the weather is my heart and I'm closer to the sea Since I cannot ever seem to shake the snow Out of me And all across the states you see the tractors and the plows Clearing out the roads And the bridges north and south Something they did learn And I just don't seem to know How to clear a passage And shake out all the snow |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
(John Stewart)
Black boy in Chicago Playing in the street Not near enough to wear Not near enough to eat Don't you know he saw it He saw a man named Armstrong Walk upon the moon Young girl in Calcutta Barely eight years old The flies that swarm the market place Will see she don't get old Don't you know she heard it On that July afternoon She heard a man named Armstrong Had walked upon the moon He heard a man named Armstrong Had walked upon the moon The rivers are getting dirty The wind is getting bad Wars and hate are killing off The only earth we have But the world all stopped to watch it On that July afternoon To watch a man named Armstrong Walk upon the moon To watch a man named Armstrong Walk upon the moon To watch a man named Armstrong Walk upon the moon And I wonder if a long time ago Somewhere in the universe They watched a man named Adam Walk upon the earth |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
(Nanci Griffith)
If I promise not to cry Will you look me in the eye And tell me that you've known me? I was your late, your lonely child I am enhanced by all you've shown me And in my youth I did defy you to the end Please forgive my wildness then Even I can't comprehend What a mother's love has lent To all that is me And will you sing this song again? Let us sing it hand in hand While the band is till playing Before the light can loose your hand Before I lose my voice again Let us sing while it's playing And if I promise not to cry Please look me in the eye And say you've truly known me 'Tis the sweet sound of goodbye Amazing grace how sweet the sound Between your soul and mine If I promise not to cry If I promise not to cry |
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from Nanci Griffith - Clock Without Hands (2001)
In the wee small hours of the morning
While the whole wide world is fast asleep You lie awake and think about the girl And never ever think of counting sheep When your lonely heart has learned its lesson You'd be hers if only she'd call In the wee small hours of the morning That's the time you miss her most of all When your lonely heart has learned its lesson You'd be hers if only she'd call In the wee small hours of the morning That's the time you miss her most of all |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
Your late night conversation
Telephone call and an inspiration For a heart to recall, had a tumble and fall And my friends all say I'm lazy Clumsy at love and I'm middle age crazy I stumble along with a tumble and fall Or maybe I'll come to my senses Or come back to you when the fences are mended Maybe love is a quiet whisper after all Maybe love is a heart that heals you Harmony when you can't recall the melody to the song You're just singin' along, yes, you now sing along to the tumble and fall I remember the sensuous cold The chill of the month through an open window And a beat of of your heart to a tumble and fall You see I'm a little something you always needed Your tried and true and I should believe in the strength of your arms When I tumble and fall So, maybe I'll come to my senses Or come back to you when the fences are mended Maybe love is a quiet whisper after all Maybe love is a heart that heals you Harmony when you can't recall the melody to the song You just singin' along, yes, you now sing along to the tumble and fall Oh, I'll sing along to the tumble and fall |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
Your phone call took my by surprise
Gee, it's been a long, long time Since those hot and humid Texas nights When we went swimm'n in the tide Corpus Christi seems so far away And I'm not talk'n 'bout the miles And there ain't much I wouldn't give today Just to see one of your smiles [Chorus:] But here I sit alone in Denver Sipp'n the California wine And I've got all night to remember you I'm in a lone star state of mind I just saw John Wayne on the Late, Late Show Save the girl and ride away And I was hoping as the credits rolled He'd make it back to her someday [Chorus] It's a thousand miles or more From here to your front door I'd be there tomorrow if I left today And I'd just pack up my guitar You know it's really not that far When you called you said I'd have a place to stay |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
My bags are waiting in a cab downstairs
I've got a ticket in my pocket says I'll make it out of here And I came by here just to tell you good-by I can see it in your face, you don't want to know why I made up my mind late last night That I would leave your city behind Oh, and love is not in question When you're holding the answer In your cold heart and your closed mind You've got a cold heart and a closed mind Out in these streets these people are angry Well, they push and shove one another aside Well, I worked from the heart and you worked for the money But I paid the price for your will to survive I made up my mind late last night That I would leave your city behind Oh, and love is not in question When you're holding the answer In your cold heart and your closed mind You've got a cold heart and a closed mind Chicago roars like a midwest hurricane I see that storm in your eyes One of these mornings when you're making your way Just gonna wash you out with the tide My bags are waiting in a cab downstairs I've got a ticket in my pocket says I'll make it out of here And I came by here just to tell you good-by I can see it in your face, you don't want to know why I made up my mind late last night That I would leave your city behind Oh, and love is not in question When you're holding the answer In your cold heart and your closed mind You've got a cold heart and a closed mind |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
From a distance the world looks blue and green
And the snow-capped mountains white From a distance the ocean meets the stream And the eagle takes to flight From a distance there is harmony And it echoes through the land It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace It's the voice of every man From a distance we all have enough And no one is in need There are no guns, no bombs, no diseases No hungry mouths to feed From a distance we are instruments Marching in a common band Playing songs of home, playing songs of peace They're the songs of every man God is watching us, God is watching us God is watching us from a distance From a distance you look like my friend Even though we are at war From a distance I can't comprehend What all this war is for From a distance there is harmony And it echoes through the land It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves It's the heart of every man It's the hope of hopes, It's the love of loves It's the song of every man |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
Gonna wake up crazy to the cry of the trains on Beacon Street
So far from home, so far from love, so far from a friend in need And all I need is a heart to hold and a good night's sleep And all I have is the cry of the trains as they bid farewell on Beacon Street [Chorus:] And here I am again I'm in the company of strangers It's a cold winter wind that sings a song You say your love is lost I'm not the kind who lingers on So it's farewell to your heart Cause when the love is gone, it's gone. I never did feel lonely till I looked in the mirror and all I could see Was a little bit of you in the corner of an eye in need of a good night's sleep And all I need is to close my eyes to find my dreams And all I had was the cry of the trains as we bid farewell on Beacon Street [Chorus] Gonna wake up crazy to the cry of the trains on Beacon Street So far from home, so far from love, so far from a friend in need And all I need is a heart to hold and a good night's sleep And all I have is the cry of the trains as they bid farewell on Beacon Street And all I had was the cry of the trains as we bid farewell on Beacon Street And all I had was the cry of the trains as we bid farewell on Beacon Street Bid farewell to a lonely heart on Beacon Street |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
A little girl dreamer
Ribbons and long curls Reflections of yesterdays past Headlines and footlights Wee hours and long nights Keep everything moving so fast It's taken a long time And she's walked a fine line For fortune and fame have arrived She kept on striving And half-way surviving Till part of those dreams came alive [Chorus:] Now she wishes she looked like they tell her she looks all the time What she'd give just to feel like she tells them she's feelin' just fine All that money she makes every night ain't as much as it seems Cause it's a dollar a wrinkle and less than a nickel a dream Well, her heart may be breaking But she keeps on taking what she thought she wanted back then It's too late to change her, There's always a stranger to tell her she's someone again [Chorus] |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
Summer Sunday evening, around the old home place
Well, I would play my guitar and sister sang along Sister's smile would always light up my Daddy's face And when they'd get to dancing, well they'd dance all night till dawn [Chorus:] And I would sing one for sister Play one for Papa, moan one for mama Then I'd cry one for you. Mama liked the slow ones and she'd shuffle 'cross the floor Sister liked the fast ones, Lord she could step so high And I'd see my Daddy dancing, till he could dance no more And when I'd play a sad song, well he would start to cry [Chorus] Now it's just me and this old guitar I've no place to call my own Mamma and Papa have passed away and sister has settled down Now you ran off and left me to live here all alone So I will sing these sad old songs as I am leaving town |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
She drove west from Salt Lake City to the California coastline.
She hit the San Diego Freeway doing sixty miles an hour. She had a husband on her bumper, she had five restless children. And she was singing as sweet as a mockingbird in that Ford Econoline. And she's the salt of the earth, Straight from the bosom of the Mormon church, With a voice like wine, Cruising along in that Ford Econoline. Her husband was a gambler, he was a Salt Lake City rambler, And he built a golden cage around his silver-throated wife. So many nights he left her crying with his cheating and his lying, But his big mistake was in buying her that Ford Econoline. She's the salt of the earth, Straight from the bosom of the Mormon church, With a voice like wine, Cruising along in that Ford Econoline. She's the salt of the earth, Straight from the bosom of the Mormon church, With a voice like wine, Cruising along in that Ford Econoline. Now she sings her songs around this country from Seattle to Montgomery, Those kids are grown and that rounder knows you cannot cage your wife. Along the back roads of our nation, she's become a living legend, She drives a Coupe De Ville but her heart rides still in that Ford Econoline. She drives a Coupe De Ville but her heart rides still in that Ford Econoline |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fields
When the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yield The trains roll by our silos, silver in the rain They leave our pockets full of nothing But our dreams and the golden grain Have you seen the folks in line downtown at the station They're all buying their ticket out and talking the great depression Our parents had their hard times fifty years ago When they stood out in these empty fields in dust as deep as snow [Chorus:] And all this trouble in our fields If this rain can fall, these wounds can heal They'll never take our native soil But if we sell that new John Deere And then we'll work these crops with sweat and tears You'll be the mule I'll be the plow Come harvest time we'll work it out There's still a lot of love, here in these troubled fields There's a book up on the shelf about the dust bowl days And there's a little bit of you and a little bit of me In the photos on every page Now our children live in the city and they rest upon our shoulders They never want the rain to fall or the weather to get colder [Chorus] You'll be the mule I'll be the plow Come harvest time we'll work it out There's still a lot of love, here in these troubled fields |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
She sleeps alone in the warm nights of Memphis
Where the Peabody Hotel meets the velveteen sky She sings like the waves in the cool Mississippi That brought her from St. Paul in '75 And men come to court her with roses and sweet wine Where hands cross the ivories from six until nine She sings away sorrow each night when she leaves him She goes home alone, She's not the marrying kind [Chorus:] Love is a memory that she'll always hold Cause love in a memory never grows old Why she did leave him, well nobody knows Love in a memory never grows old Now he works the toll booth on the New Jersey Turnpike The ring on his finger grows cold to the bone His sons were all dreamers who cheat on their own wives He still dreams of St. Paul when he's cheating alone [Chorus] |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
There's a star in Heaven's sky
Always shining bright It's just a tear in an Angel's eye A gentle guiding light Let it shine on me Let it show the way Let it always be Let it always stay Let it flood my soul Let it hold the key Let it all unfold Let it shine on me When the way seems so dark Let it shine on me Bringing home within my heart A reason to believe Let it shine on me Let it show the way Let it always be Let it always stay Let it flood my soul Let it hold the key Let it all unfold Let it shine on me Let it shine on me Let it show the way Let it always be Let it always stay Let it flood my soul Let it hold the key Let it all unfold Let it shine on me |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
There's a light beyond these woods, Mary Margaret.
Do you think that we will go there, And see what makes it shine, Mary Margaret? It's almost morning, and we've talked all night, You know we've made big plans for ten-year-olds, You and I. Have you met my new boy friend, Margaret? His name is John, and he rides my bus to school, And he holds my hand. He's fourteen, he's my older man. But we'll still be the best of friends, The three of us, Margaret, John, and I. Let's go to New York City, Margaret! We'll hide out in the subways And drink the poets' wine, oh, But I had John, so you went and I stayed behind. But you were home in time for the senior prom, When we lost John. The fantasies we plan, I'm living them now. All the dreams we sang when we knew how, Well, they haven't changed. There's never been two friends like you and me, Mary Margaret. It's nice to see you family growing, Margaret. Your daughter and your husband there, They really treat you right, But we've talked all night And what about the light, that glowed beyond Our woods when we were ten? You were the rambler then. The fantasies we planned, well, Maggie, I'm living them now. All the dreams we sang, oh, we damn sure knew How, but I haven't changed. There'll never be two friends like you and me, Maggie, can't you see? There's a light beyond your woods, Mary Margaret. |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
You can cuss the daylights out of this pale winter moon
And we can ponder every reason why your true love was untrue You can cry your eyes out, I've got a shoulder here for you And every day your broken heart's gonna turn a lighter shade of blue [Chorus:] Cause anyone can be somebody's fool Oh look at me, I once was a fool for you So you know it's true Anyone can be somebody's fool Down in this lonely town there's a lovely silver frost So we can stop and have another round for the true love that you've lost It's gonna take a little time before your emptiness grows old And underneath that silver frost you've still got a heart of gold Maybe when this winter's over You're gonna walk knee deep in clover And your heartache around the corner You're gonna feel brand new |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
I knew love
When it still meant forever When a feeling shared didn't always have to hurt And a promise that was made would go unbroken I knew love When it was more than just a word I knew a time When hope was all you needed And if you cared you found a way to make things work When life was what two people shared together Oh, I knew love When it was more than just a word [Chorus:] I knew love When I could still believe It was the greatest power in the world I knew love When it was more than just a word I knew hearts When they made it all so easy And sad goodbyes were seldom ever heard When I wouldn't have to read this note that says you're leaving I knew love When it was more than just a word [Chorus] I knew love when it was more than just a word |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
You say you're heading out to
California You've heard the grapes are falling From the vine I was hoping you might have the Urge to write me But, I don't believe you will So never mind I was talking to a man down at Genesco He said they might be hiring any time I'm so tired of going any way the Wind blows And I thought that me and you But never mind [Chorus:] Never mind, never mind I'm just talkin' through the wine And you know that drinkin' always Makes me sad But before this night is through I better say I love you Or I'm gonna always wish that I had I first saw you pickin' oranges In Orlando All day you kept your ladder close To mine We froze in Georgia, burned up In Chicago And I always thought that we, But never mind Did you know today my baby called You daddy? Sometimes I've wished that she was Yours and mine I could call my brother Milt in Cincinnati And ask him for a loan, But never mind [Chorus] |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
He owned a hotel on Jersey shore
She made her living seeing the sailors door to door He was a small Hawaiian with a crooked smile But he made her eyes light up like the heavens on the Fourth of July She ran the numbers, they say she ran them clean Those porcelain hands keep a ledger even in her sleeves While he worked the See-Bees in the Philippines They say she made more money than you and I will ever see [Chorus:] Cause love was a magnet on the Jersey shore If you were looking for love boys, you could have found it in '44 Cause love wore a halo back before the war When the men loved the women And the women knew what men were for It was in the winter when he came home And he had to hold those porcelain hands just to keep her warm So they had a daughter, her name was Stephanie Anne They sent her off to Vasser to find herself a family man She sold the hotel, it belongs to me And I watch those sailors come and go by the waves in the sea From the poor chaps in the honeymoon suite And I hear them fishing their lives away in the Florida Keys |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
My daddy sent me on to Baton Rouge in 1969
He said our love was like a forest fire and he'd end it with a mind So you rode with us to Temple, Texas where I did catch the train And I remember waving back at you from a silted window pane [Chorus:] And I said fare thee well true love of mine And I said fare thee well sweet lips of wine And you said fare thee well my Texas rose And then you blew a kiss of innocence as the trains began to roll So long ago You'd gone off to fight the war when I returned from school And I traded in my innocence when the springtime came in bloom And I married for my family; one night I dreamed of you And you were running from me in the rain down on Congress Avenue Now I saw you once in a crowded bar and it was Christmas time I was frightened by the thunder of our hearts in '69 Because I live my life in whispers now and I choose to live alone So I slipped back to the avenue and flipped my collar to the cold |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
When I wake in the night and find
That I'm dreaming You're the first thought in mind Love's a fair weather friend when You're lonely You are my summer state of mind Does it sing to you nightly? Does it lay down beside you? Does it make you hear songs On the radio? It once was my shadow, grown Weary of travel Till you gave it home What makes the love grow, when The seasons change? What makes the love grow? It's simple, it comes, and it grows on It's own Does it sing to you nightly? Does it lay down beside you? Does it make you hear songs On the radio? |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
Oh I wish it would rain and wash my face clean
I want to find some dark cloud to hide in here Oh love and a memory sparkle like diamonds When the diamonds fall they burn like tears When the diamonds fall they burn like tears Once I had a love from the Georgia Pans who only cared for me I want to find that love of 22 here at 33 I've got a heart on my right and one on my left And neither suits my needs No the one I love is way out west and he never will need me I'm gonna pack up my two-step shoes and head for the Gulf Coast plains I want to walk the streets of my own home town where everybody knows my name I want to ride a ways down to Galveston when the hurricanes blow in Cause that Gulf Coast water tastes as sweet as wine When your heart's rolling home in the wind |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
I don't wanna be standing here
With this ticket for this outbound plane Oh, I've been here before Somehow this doesn't feel the same Talk is cheap So we could talk all night long And we may never figure out just Where your love went wrong [Chorus:] 'Cause I don't wanna be standin' here Don't wanna be talkin' here And I don't really care who's to blame 'Cause if love won't fly on it's own Free will It's gonna catch that outbound plane The old folks say That love's not forever anymore Because these young people walk Away from love alone To pace the floor Young or old I say that love is still the same You may walk away from love but You'll fall head and heels again [Chorus] Two lonely hearts in this airport Knowing Neither cares where that other Heart is going But, if love won't fly on it's own Free will, it's gonna catch that Outbound plane That frown you're wearing's Just you're halo turned upside down Where is the laughter we once Shared back in the lost and found? These broken wings are gonna leave Me here to stand my ground You can have this ticket for that Lonely plane that's flying out [Chorus] |
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from Nanci Griffith - The Complete Mca Studio Recordings (2006)
You never liked this place where we'd been living all along
So, you packed up your things and bought a one-way ticket home Leaving never hurt as much as being left behind [Chorus:] I would change my life I would make it right I would change my life If you would only change your mind I have spent my hours on some misbegotten dream I have spent my money on some foolish hearted things I have spent my memories on old embittered wine [Chorus] I wish that I could find the words to make you come back home I wish that I could say the things you needed for so long I wish that you could see me now, maybe then you'd find [Chorus] |
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