Roses On The 4th Of July Nanci Griffith

"He still sends her roses on the 4th of July. They're always white roses, she's never asked why. She still doesn't know where he goes, Thursday nights.

Everything's Comin' Up Roses Nanci Griffith

This life is filled with wonder This life is full of days not spent Oh I cannot help but ponder What relevance that lends Oh but everything is comin` up roses And when I`m pushing daisies They`ll want

Wouldn't That Be Fine Nanci Griffith

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

Armstrong Nanci Griffith

(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

Love In A Memory (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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.

Truly Something Fine Nanci Griffith

(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

Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Love Conquers All Nanci Griffith

She's a brown skin girl from El Paso City He's a sweet tempered soldier from Fort Bliss They ran off one July evening All concerned said this one is anyone's guess Love conquers all Love conquers all And

Brave Companion Of The Road (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

With your suitcase by the back porch stairs With my heart in your hand In this cold December wind again The cafes and bars are closed The Christmas lights are veiled in snow Tell me, where are you going

If Wishes Were Changes (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I wish that you loved me The way that I love you I wish I had Angels Who sang in my dreams If wishes were changes We'd all live in roses And there wouldn't be children Who cried in their sleep He wishes

Wall Of Death Nanci Griffith

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

Beacon Street (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Nanci Griffith

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

Big Blue Ball Of War Nanci Griffith

In 1914, this ball was at war It went from Belgium on through Ireland The Congo, then back home This big blue ball of war spun on it's own Spinning history in lines of blood When many souls fell off And

Wings Of A Dove Nanci Griffith

chorus- 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.

I Live On A Battlefield Nanci Griffith

"I live on a battlefield Surrounded by the ruins of a love we built And then destroyed between us, the smoke has cleared As I stumble through the rubble, I'm dazed and seein' double And I'm truly mystified

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

One Of These Days Nanci Griffith

We walk along the Hudson when it snows here in Manhattan seems we've lived our lives so out of place You touch my cheek and I do wonder how this happened that two young lovers could pack their dreams

It's Just Another Morning Here (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

The telephone is ringin' in the middle of the night And I pull the bed clothes higher Will it stop calling out if I turn on the light?

Listen To The Radio (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

[Chorus:] When you can't find a friend You've still got the radio When you can't find a friend You've still got the radio Radio, listen to the radio Radio, listen to the radio I left a handsome two

Heart Of Indochine Nanci Griffith

I am on a Riverboat on the Saigon River Where the music's too loud While I try to have my dinner Stories I've been told of 1954 When the bodies washed ashore from that distant war My friend Michael came

Nobody's Angel Nanci Griffith

"Something's disturbed me I'm out of your company I'm Out of the country With another man's heart I'm angered and doubtful And I'd shout an earful But nothing comes out When I open my mouth [Chorus:] I'm

Traveling Through This Part Of You Nanci Griffith

(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

Little Love Affairs (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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?

Things I Don't Need Nanci Griffith

This house is full of memories that aren?t mine Pieces I thought I would clear out over time Life takes over, I get ahead of myself, and I turn around And I?

One Blade Shy Of A Sharp Edge (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You honk the horn on your Mercedes Benz I've rolled up my window so you're honkin' again Your stereo could drive the devil out Hey, you drink too much and you talk too loud But you think you got it made

It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I am a backseat driver from America They drive to the left on Falls Road The man at the wheel's name is Seamus We pass a child on the corner he knows And Seamus says, "Now, what chance has that Kid got

The Streets Of Baltimore Nanci Griffith

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

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

Mountain Of Sorrow Nanci Griffith

짝though You were here, now you're gone That's the only thing I know And it's just one more sorrow To throw upon the heap Mountain of sorrow창?

Goin' Back To Georgia Nanci Griffith

Oh the city snow makes your brown eyes shine We've gotta look real hard to find a reason to cry New York, New York is a friend of the travelling kind And I'm coming around from years of hard times He's

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

in school Books were for the other girls And the other girls were fools Texas back in '69 was drive in movies and dashboard lights Father waltzed her down the aisle Cause college didn't suit her style

So Long Ago (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Trouble In The Fields Nanci Griffith

"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

Trouble In The Fields (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Boots Of Spanish Leather Nanci Griffith

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?

Try The Love Nanci Griffith

, 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 Try the love that the keeper of

Across The Great Divide Nanci Griffith

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

The Ghost Inside Of Me Nanci Griffith

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

Old Hanoi Nanci Griffith

Where are all the Satchel Boys Selling books outside the Metripole?

Wasn't That A Mighty Storm Nanci Griffith

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

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

Summer Wages Nanci Griffith

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

I Wish It Would Rain (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Across America Nanci Griffith

I've heard enough from pundits I've heard our leaders speak I tell you know I'd rather talk to the people in the street 'Cause you don't know someone Until you've looked them in the eye And that

Fields Of Summer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I am fragile in the morning I grow stronger in the day I can sprint like a new spring doe By the fall of the night Love has chased me down Through the cities and the towns Until I stood beside the road

Down 'N' Outer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I once was a lot like you We share a dream I couldn't make come true I was a child who wrote my name Across a frosted window pane And there are jobs that I might hold If they'd just let me through the

Not My Way Home 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

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 Train Nanci Griffith

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