Nanci Griffith piosenki

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...

[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 Trading places shining on the truth The moon moves the...

Well, it's that old time story of a new face to glory Someone wanted my soul for their pride What about the system of fools arranged for missing Well, I can't lie, they all pass with time Why do my people come and go? I keep on leaving them behind and Lord, I...

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 gave me a purpose And every reason why I drove myself across Ame...

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 faded papers They tell a story I used to know And it w...

Southern man, you sure are pretty, Got a smile to still the city, And Lord, you know, you got those sleepy eyes. Alabama sweet-talking baby, Calmed the heart of a lonely lady, You kept me flying high, And the leaving easy. And it's Dallas in the rain, And I wa...

I saw you on the avenue You looked so tired and a little blue You were in your Sunday best With your father's tie upon your chest [Chorus:] Hey, you always stood me still Hey, you always will In the corridor of one hotel We once crossed paths I recall it wel...

And I love you so. The people ask me how, How I've lived till now. I tell them I don't know. I guess they understand How lonely life has been. But life began again The day you took my hand. And, yes, I know how lonely life can be. The shadows follow me, and...

The touch of your hand will let me know You take me in and let me go If not for love why would we meet How is it done two into one so easily We're lifted up by angels Higher than the world Strong enough to leave it Bound to learn the secrets Angels never hear...

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:] Cau...

Let me say this one more time Just in case you didn't hear it right I'll put it in my own words So I'll know it's understood You sent me out on a limb You brought me home Sent me back again Out on that limb one too many times You should've known I'd learn to f...

Are you tired of me my darling? Did you mean those words you said? That made me yours forever Since the day when we were wed And 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...

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 on a July afternoon? He saw a man named 'Armstrong' walk upon the moon Young girl in Calcutta, barely eight years old The flies that swarm the...

They both wrote poetry In fact, that was how they met He was a Yorkshire man in Cambridge She was from Massachusetts They spoke and they fell in love They kissed and picked daffodils She came across the ocean Just to bid her heart goodbye The hawk next to hi...

I look like him without the mustache I’ll have that too if I live that long… When I’m winning he knows me When I lose I’m his bad seed After all he told me Nothing good would become of me Now that I’ve gone crazy With no love from my father Am I the b...

Mamma's in the kitchen rattlin' pans and the baby cries On the TV news, somebody died He was a crazy biker in a motorcycle ridin' daredevil show In Merry England, oh, twenty seven years old He was tryin' to break the record For jumpin' over cars, he was the ch...

I'm goin' back where my garden blooms all year Where the wintertime speaks softly in the fallin' rain I'm goin' back to my green eyed lover there And we will dance along the banks of old Lake Pontchartrain Oh, I've grown pale beneath the streets of Montreal W...

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 Str...

Heres a photograph of you in Woody Hermanns band It was 1952, you were such a handsome man One of you at a memorial with all of Hoagys clan And then you and my mother, walking hand in hand And she was beautiful and you played the piano You were beautiful upon...

I dreamed of Louisiana And a night in Lafayette We had breakfast with Susanna We were young and wild and left Whats different here Than in that dream and in reality Is we werent afraid to fail in love And we all believed in the dream Before, before I dreamed...