Nanci Griffith piosenki

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 its own Spinning history in lines of blood When many souls fell off (chorus) We all ride on (we all ride) This big blue ball of w...

After you go, I can catch up on my reading And after you go, I'll have a lot more time for sleeping And when you're gone Looks like things are gonna get a lot easier Life will be a breeze, you know I really should be glad But I'm bluer than blue, sadder than...

Oh, I'm sailin' away my own true love, I'm sailin' away in the mornin'. Is there something I can sendfrom across the sea, From the place where I'll be landing? There's nothin' you can send me, my own true love, There's nothin' I'm wishin' to be ownin'. Just c...

Where are you going there? 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? My brave companion of the roa...

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 And I can't help but wonder where I'm bound Where I'm boun...

He is from the work of a Southern writer Where everyman's a fighter Where the strong survive And the weak move north to rest He had lines of silver and hands that delivered Me down the river To drift away alone [Chorus:] I will never understand the heart of a...

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 li...

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 t...

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 [Chorus:] I made up my mind late last night That I would lea...

Come on up Mississippi Come on up I’m coming on up to you And if only America knew Of your poverty, your dirty streets, your children with their barefoot feet They’d all be coming on up to you Missisippi… Come on up Mississippi America’s for you 

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...

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 ballerin...

My family grew cotton Cotton was all we knew Butter came from butterbeans And it all went in a stew We lived off our victory garden And the neighbours did so too Some years the dust was so ruthless The cotton was all we grew When there's no more cane on the g...

Oh, I used to wish I was a hard line taker, and they'd say, "Six to one a half dozen'll break her", 'till I fell in love with a young man who sang the blues Oh, bless my daddy, he warned me well He'd whisper in my ear and say, "Now look out, gal, There's alway...

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 handso...

Well, the good times scratched a laugh From the lungs of the young men In a Deadwood saloon, South Dakota afternoon And the old ones by the door With their heads on their chests, They told lies about whiskey on a womans breath Yes, and some tell the story of...

The crops are all in And the peaches are rotting The oranges are stacked In their Creosote dumps They're flying them back To that Mexico border To pay all their wages To wade back again Chorus Goodbye to you Juan, goodbye Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus and...

Well thousands of folks back east they say Are leaving home most everyday They're beating the hot old dusty way To the California line Across the desert sands they roll Getting outta that old dust bowl They think they're going to a sugar bowl But here is wha...

Ronnie stood beneath the movie marquee His memories all curled up inside He was trying to remember was it August or September He'd seen her for the last time He'd heard that she'd become an actress Lord, she always had the prettiest face And he stood with his...

I can't be your weather 'cause' if it rains then it rains I can't be your lover 'cause' the feelings would change I can't be the wind 'cause' the wind blows too free But if you want a true companion Don't forget about me [Chorus:] Don't forget about me When y...