Nanci Griffith piosenki

Oh, love is a hand you hold When you think you've lost your mind It is bitter as persimmons Yet 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 something fine...

Before you marry, before you mend Or have someone's children, long before then You could find something with somebody new Try the love that I'm offering in my open arms Before you do We should have quarreled, it's so unwise To cut yourself loose with on...

Where are you going my little one, little one Where are you going 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 of the door Turn around Turn around Turn around and you're a young girl Going...

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 go 'Cause it takes two for...

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 well what pain is. You took it on yourself to pave the roa...

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 Waiting for love You came along and fit the part It's the whistle from the man With the kindest hands And...

I want you to tell me why you walked out on me I'm so lonesome every day I want you to know that since you walked out on me Nothing seems to be the same old way Think about the love that burns within my heart for you The good times we had before you went away,...

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 peopl...

She's just a hill country girl home from the city Her pocket's full of plenty of those neon lights And her mother's smile shines on her youngest child Though she is just a barroom singer With her father's eyes [Chorus:] The city streets are harder understandi...

Wasn't that a mighty storm? Yeah Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning? Wasn't that a mighty storm? Blew all the people away Galveston had a sea wall Meant to keep the water down High tide from the ocean Sent water all over town Wasn't that a mighty stor...

Wash away the tears All the angry times we shared All the feelings and the Sorrows come and gone We have let them slip away Because I'm standing here today And I'm smiling at your old West Texas sun I remember times When you'd weathered out my mind But you al...

What is that sound ringing in my ears I've heard that sound before What's that I hear ringing in my ears I hear it more and more It's the sound of freedom calling Ringing up to the sky It's the sound of the old ways falling You can hear it if you try You can...

He took a plane to New York City To chase his fortune on the Wall Street plan Now he is stranded in Manhattan Yet the Southeast Texas coast still calls his name [Chorus:] He said come on wheels, give up a ticket Hello thunder, won't you roll him home Oh a nee...

I could have a mansion that is higher than the trees I could have all the gifts I want and never ask please I could fly to Paris, oh, it's at my beck and call Why do I go through life with nothing at all But when I dream, I dream of you Maybe someday you will...

Tell me where, Would I be now without you? Without an angel, Watching out for me? Took a long, long time, For me to realise, All my faith in you, Was so justified. Tell me where, Would I be now without you? Where would I turn, To find the truth I need? I cou...

I'm headed out on that highway Listenin' to them big trucks whine I'm headed out on that highway Listenin' to them big trucks whine White Freight Liner Won't you steal away my mind New Mexico ain't bad Lord People there they treat you fine New Mexico ain't ba...

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 sho...

[Chorus:] On the wings of a snow white dove He sends his pure sweet love A sign from above On the wings of a dove When trouble surrounds us When evils come The body grows weak The spirit grows numb When these things beset us He doesn't forget us He sends down...

Well, I've listened to the words you lovers speak The sound of 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...

It's a southern road west of New Orleans I'm fightin' off a cold From these winter rounds Houston She's just around the corner But I think I'll stop off here in Lafayette Lord and have me another round [Chorus:] I've been workin' in corners all alone at night...