Nanci Griffith piosenki

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 door Without a shower and new clothes That I can ill affor...

[Chorus:] 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 sharin' For someone warm and carin' And no one sees a heart that's underfed Young girl in love Young girl in tears She hasn't seen t...

Sister had a crystal 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 the other girls And the other girl...

Drops in the faucet like a nervous heart Beat on my porcelain sink a rhythm avant-garde I page through the phone book, reach for my fountain pen Is he comin' in for the holidays to haunt me again? I call up the Grand central, information please Is that nickel...

This life is filled with wonder This life is full of days not spent Oh I cannot help but ponder What relevance that lends [Chorus:] Oh but everything is comin' up roses And when I'm pushin' up daisies, They'll want roses anyway Oh and everything's comin' up r...

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 And let it pass me by Like a fool I've missed the rain Cau...

Oh, its just another summer mornin', Baby, somewhere in this town The heat is rising Oh, I know where you spent last night so you can stop apologizing You say that you've been out, just lookin' around this town I don't wanna know just exactly what you've found...

He was a flyer for the Air Force On a plane from San Antonio I was traveling to London He was going off to Buffalo Changing planes in Pittsburgh We got grounded in a storm Now, I would give anything To be on that flyer's arm We played cards, mostly blackjack...

She drove west from Salt Lake City to the California coastline. She hit the San Diego Freeway doing sixty miles an hour. She had a husband on her bumper, she had five restless children. And she was singing as sweet as a mockingbird in that Ford Econoline. An...

I look out on these shields of heather Across this countryside I wonder how they've grown together While people live such separate lives I think I'll stay inside for the winter Cause the weather's in my bones And the wind could shatter bone to splinter Then ho...

I am not a child, though you'll treat me as you've always seen me You never saw the changes in a heart grown old and wise Hey, it's good to see you smile, it's been so long between the pages Wheels out on the highway seem to laugh between my lines [Chorus:] D...

From a distance the world looks blue and green And the snow-capped mountains white From a distance the ocean meets the stream And the eagle takes to flight From a distance there is harmony And it echoes through the land It's the voice of hope, it's the voice...

Four who shared this room and we caught up in the CRAIC Sleeping late on Sundays and we never got to Mass Chorus It's a long way from Clare to here It's a long way from Clare to here It's a long, long way It gets further by the day It's a long, long way from...

Down at the station the tracks are cold The wheels of thunder, they roll no more And the heart of America cries for the souls Who won't be rollin' home The dragon weeps with empty eyes, The whistle sighs no more in the night It rests in the lines, like a gho...

There's a lighthouse in the harbor Giving guidance with it's light But, I had no one to return to As I wandered through the night From the first time that I saw you Standing silent by the shore I knew my search was over And I would look for love no more [Cho...

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 traveling kind And I'm coming around from years of hard times He's chased me down through the towns and the miles Once stille...

My mother came to America Sailed through the harbor of hopes and of dreams Back in the Thirties With the streets paved in gold And the sky laced with moonbeams Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons Here in the free world, we're the lucky ones [Chorus:] All...

Flippin' bottle caps through the ring around the moon All alone on a Saturday night with the stars in bloom I am a vision of my mother's dream come true Built this house out in the hills All by my own will I've got love enough for two But it's just me and this...

Grapefruit moon, one star shining Shining down on me I heard that tune and now I'm pining Honey, can't you see? Every time I hear that melody Something breaks inside And the grapefruit moon, one star shining Can't turn back the tide Never had a destination C...

We blew past the army motorcade and it's abnormal load haulage The gravity of the situation came on us like a bit of new knowledge The bubbliest bubble bath broke down on the bank The gravity of the situation is why our old thought bubbles sank humble...