Last Song For Mother Nanci Griffith

And will you sing this song again? Let us sing it hand in hand, While the band is still playing.

Waiting For Love Nanci Griffith

Tripping over your own feet He claims you still anyway Waiting for love God forgives your lack of grace Everyone I know From my dust bowl to the city Is waiting for love (love) To start another day They

Last Train Home Nanci Griffith

By the Time I Get to Phoenix Was the last song on your mind the day you left You woke up in Nogales With Tequila with her name across your chest You've stumbled through the morning In these border tourists

Dress Of Laces Nanci Griffith

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 Young girl

This Old Town Nanci Griffith

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

Simple Life Nanci Griffith

[Chorus:] I want a simple life Like my mother One true love for my older years I don't want your wars To take my children I want a simple life... while I'm here The sun and moon walk hand in hand together

Morning Song for Sally Nanci Griffith

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

Ten Degrees and Getting Colder Nanci Griffith

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

1937 Pre-War Kimball Nanci Griffith

(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

Night Rider's Lament Nanci Griffith

Why do you rope for short pay?

Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

voice She played a Silverstone from Montgomery Ward Baez songs and Monroe hair She sure could turn the boys heads to stare Swimwear saunter, tan and haunt them Was all she learned in school Books were for

Sing One For Sister (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Tumble And Fall (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Rise To The Occasion Nanci Griffith

I'll never fall in love again It's such a contradiction To lose all control and common sense And even intuition You came along, with a strange new song And the sweetest innovation And you said, "One should

Back When Ted Loved Sylvia Nanci Griffith

they ought to wait They did not care with all that said And married none the less They traveled and they taught A life of academia Typewriters and cocktails Angry verses and sad pleas Dutiful wife and mother

Desperadoes Waiting For A Train Nanci Griffith

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

Hard Times Come Again No More Nanci Griffith

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 `Tis the song, the

Beautiful Nanci Griffith

Here's a photograph of you in Woody Hermann's band It was 1952, you were such a handsome man One of you at a memorial with all of Hoagy's clan And then you and my mother, walking hand in hand And she was

If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song) Nanci Griffith

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

Try The Love Nanci Griffith

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

From A Distance Nanci Griffith

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

San Diego Serenade (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

never saw the morning 'til I stayed up all night I never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out the light I never saw my hometown 'til I'd stayed away too long I never heard the melody until I needed the song

Three Flights Up Nanci Griffith

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

Leaving The Harbor (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

When you sing the lullaby Do you sing it for the song? Or do you love the way it slides Like velvet 'cross your tongue? And as you sing the lullaby Do you savor every line?

Roses On The 4th Of July Nanci Griffith

""You Were On My Mind"" Was their favorite song. Love is a mystery, from birth 'til we die. It's cross words of a morning, by evening entwined. It's all that we dream of, sometimes it's not right.

Wasn't That A Mighty Storm Nanci Griffith

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 Death your hands are clammy You got them on my knee You come and took my mother

Up Against the Rain Nanci Griffith

You ran up against the rain everyday of your short life Suffered for your muse without complaining Never heard you swear life isn't fair but it doesn't make it right You left the world knowing all too

Woman of the Phoenix Nanci Griffith

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

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Nanci Griffith

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

Yarrington Town Nanci Griffith

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

Cotton Nanci Griffith

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.

Saint Teresa Of Avila Nanci Griffith

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

Beacon Street (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Big Blue Ball Of War Nanci Griffith

on (We all ride) This big blue ball of war We choose to spin around and ride This big blue ball of war A reformation just might save us all A voice of harmony and open heart Where the women teach the song

Who Knows Where The Time Goes Nanci Griffith

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

Two For The Road Nanci Griffith

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

Tell Me How Nanci Griffith

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

He Was A Friend Of Mine Nanci Griffith

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

Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Hometown Streets (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Everybody packs their goals And sails away for better shores I have seen times My sails have held a brilliant shine I hear tell that dreams come true Along these crowded avenues But, my peace of mind Is

Old Hanoi Nanci Griffith

Crowded out by motorbike, confined to lesser space In old Hanoi and they grew wings and they've flown away And in the words of Graham Greene Like the Quiet American Who's searching these sacred streets For

Brave Companion Of The Road (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I've ever seen you be Oh, it's plain to see That you've gone crazier Than you ever thought you'd be When the lights go down And the dance floor is empty And the crowd is going home I will be waiting For

Not Innocent Enough Nanci Griffith

Philip Workman and I'm not innocent enough It's not a long walk from a trailer park to a Tennessee cell block But I got saved behind these bars, soon I'll give my soul to God Reverend Joe is praying for

Clock Without Hands Nanci Griffith

(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

Radio Fragile (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

We all said you'd never make it Cause you had that fragile heart And you were odd within the ways of the social You through a caution to us all And now when the late night drinkers gather for their falls

I Still Miss Someone Nanci Griffith

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

The Wing And The Wheel Nanci Griffith

the wheel now they carry things away Whether it's me that does the leavin' or that love that flies away Moon outside my window looks so lonely tonight There's a chunk out of it's middle It's big enough for

I Wish It Would Rain (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Tequila After Midnight Nanci Griffith

It's the same sad familiar story Not a thing about it is new Just about someone who loved and lost And it's still hurting through and through They say it drives you crazy, well I could hardly care For

I'll Move Along Nanci Griffith

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 I`ll move along time to move along I`ll move along time to move