Nanci Griffith piosenki

Rita was sixteen years Hazel eyes and chestnut hair She made the Woolworth counter shine And Eddie was a sweet romancer And a darn good dancer And they waltzed the aisles of the five and dime And they'd sing Dance a little closer to me Hey, dance a little cl...

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 to all concerned you'll survive that fall 'Cause love c...

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. Paul in '75 And men come to court her with roses and sweet wine Where hands cross the ivor...

Take this heart of mine out the winter And let the new life of Springtime come rest at our door May the soul of my brother never bow to the wicked And the hearts of our children waltz together once more [Chorus:] Love is a Hard Waltz, and we could all use a L...

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 ran the numbers, they say she ran them clean Those porcel...

My friends think I'm crazy and maybe it's true 'Cause I'll go on and love you this way Though I have discovered that you love another And hardly remember my name [Chorus:] My youth was so crazy, my heart was so lazy Love never could stand me still But, love's...

The sun will stop shinin' Hearts will stop poundin' The screen is so lonely tonight The men are out prayin' The women are sayin' She died for the loss of her prime And lived on DiMaggio time [Chorus:] Farewell you old tinsel city With your waltz in the mornin...

My daddy was a longshoreman in New Orleans, My mamma kept score just watchin' the Mardi Gras, Oh me, I sat on the front porch watchin' the rails roll out, I was waitin' for my Omie to take me outta this south It was me and my sisters, like to wore that front p...

I will find somebody new Maybe tomorrow I will stop this missing you Maybe tomorrow Times the healer... times the key So all the wise folks say Oh, maybe tomorrow But not today Life will once again make sense Maybe tomorrow I'll regain my confidence Maybe to...

There's a light out on the freeway says it's time to go I'm wasting my time counting stains on a barroom floor Thinking 'bout my hometown and the friends I'll leave behind Mostly 'bout the man who writes his songs with smiling rhymes And I'm holding on to a sm...

Are you sleeping now? It's midnight in Missoula. Where the Black Hills know your name. Is the snow piled high around your window frame? Is there enough frost left to write our names upon the pane? Are you sleeping now? It's midnight in Missoula. Are you slee...

In the rush of the river and the roar of the crowd You can't hear the silence calling When it's merely the whisper of a cloud In a crazy storm, that pulls you on Take a pill or you might take a loss And the vicious circle tightens But compromise comes with a...

In an old pickup truck, with his hat pulled down He drives them old Montana backroads Remembering half-forgotten times, and wondering where it's gone And if he can still carry the load Now, the summer sun is setting, and the moon is on the rise As he pulls th...

Oh, I wish that you would call We have not spoken since last fall That smoky conversation's coming home Do I just read between your lines Yeah it could be this winter wine So sweet upon my tongue tonight It recalls your tender eyes And I need more than a whis...

As the morning light stretched in across my bed, I thought of you Remembering your laughing eyes and all we said, I love you too As all my thoughts of you pass 'fore my face a thousand times The way they race my heart I cannot say it all in lines How the shor...

There's a morning train That's headed for New Orleans Carrying business men and week day shoppers I have sixteen bucks and a dollar in change And that's not a bad price for a one way ride On a morning train I give you my devotion You left me heartsick Oh, yo...

Easy come, easy go Anything but easy' though 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 sorrow' steep What you see, the new me Changing right before your eyes Like a leaf on a...

You'll never be the sun turning in the sky And you won't be the moon above us On a moonlit night And you won't be the stars in heaven Although they burn so bright But even on the deepest ocean You will be the light You may not always shine as you go Barefoot...

You say you're heading out to California You've heard the grapes are falling From the vine I was hoping you might have the Urge to write me But, I don't believe you will So never mind I was talking to a man down at Genesco He said they might be hiring any tim...

A little girl dreamer Ribbons and long curls Reflections of yesterdays past Headlines and footlights Wee hours and long nights Keep everything moving so fast It's taken a long time And she's walked a fine line For fortune and fame have arrived She kept on str...