Cotton Nanci Griffith

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?

One Of These Days Nanci Griffith

pack their dreams and move from the Texas Plains Oh, I'm gonna take us back where we belong Where you can see it in the stars that the weather's comin' on One of these days Now, our Daddy's grew cotton

Across The Great Divide Nanci Griffith

I've been walkin' in my sleepCountin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheepWhere the years went I can't sayI just turned around and they've gone awayI've been siftin' through the layersOf dusty books a...

Trouble In The Fields Nanci Griffith

"Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fieldsWhen the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yieldThe trains roll by our silos, silver in the rainThey leave our pockets full of no...

The Wing And The Wheel Nanci Griffith

The wing and the wheel now they carry things awayWhether it's me that does the leavin' or that love that flies awayMoon outside my window looks so lonely tonightThere's a chunk out of it's middleIt...

These Days In An Open Book Nanci Griffith

Shut it down and call this road a dayAnd put this silence in my heart in a better placeI have travelled with your ghost now so many yearsThat I see you in the shadowsIn hotel rooms and headlightsYo...

Love At The Five And Dime Nanci Griffith

Love at the Five and DimeRita was sixteen yearsHazel eyes and chestnut hairShe made the Woolworth counter shineAnd Eddie was a sweet romancerAnd a darn good dancerAnd they waltzed the aisles of the...

Late Night Grande Hotel Nanci Griffith

I'm working on a morning flight to anywhere but hereI'm watching this evening fire burn away my tearsAll my life I've left my troubles by the door'Cos leaving is all I've ever known beforeIt's not ...

Tell Me How Nanci Griffith

"[Chorus:]Tell me how to keep your loveYou know how I need your loveTell me how you keep the loveWithin your heart from meDon't you know that I love youLet me show why; I'm true blueWhen I know a l...

1937 Pre-War Kimball Nanci Griffith

(Nanci Griffith) 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

Nobody's Angel Nanci Griffith

"Something's disturbed meI'm out of your companyI'm Out of the countryWith another man's heartI'm angered and doubtfulAnd I'd shout an earfulBut nothing comes outWhen I open my mouth[Chorus:]I'm no...

Always Will Nanci Griffith

"I saw you on the avenueYou looked so tired and a little blueYou were in your Sunday bestWith your father's tie upon your chest[Chorus:]Hey, you always stood me stillHey, you always willIn the corr...

Clock Without Hands Nanci Griffith

(Nanci Griffith) 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

Traveling Through This Part Of You Nanci Griffith

(Nanci Griffith) Nothing that I've ever seen Now means much of anything In traveling through this part of you And the Vietnam that I had dreamed The place you wore your life "fatigued" I'm traveling through

Where Would I Be Nanci Griffith

(Paul Carrack)Tell me whereWould I be now without youWithout an angelWatching out for meTook a long, long timeFor me to realizeAll my faith in youWas so justifiedTell me whereWould I be without you...

Midnight In Missoula Nanci Griffith

(Nanci Griffith) 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?

Lost Him In The Sun Nanci Griffith

(John Stewart)Any given day there's a jet flying somwhereOh, we bought a ticket and vanished in the skyAnd how was I to know he was leaving in the morningI never heard him go and then he never said...

The Ghost Inside Of Me Nanci Griffith

All the papers lie tonightBut falling over youIs the news of the dayAngels fall like rainAnd love, is all of heaven wayInside you the time moves and she don fadeThe ghost in you she don fade awayTh...

Truly Something Fine Nanci Griffith

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) Oh love is a hand you hold When you think you've lost your mind It is bitter as persimmons Yet as sweet of rose on vine It's the thorns upon the vines That sometimes tear

Roses On The 4th Of July Nanci Griffith

"He still sends her roses on the 4th of July.They're always white roses, she's never asked why.She still doesn't know where he goes, Thursday nights.But his wedding band rests,On their bedside that...

Shaking Out The Snow Nanci Griffith

Snowing - through South Dakota I once droveWith the wife of my best palWho cloaks her heart from cold with goldIt was well into the winterOf December in the coldOff to see Mount Rushmore staring th...

Armstrong Nanci Griffith

(John Stewart)Black boy in ChicagoPlaying in the streetNot near enough to wearNot near enough to eatDon't you know he saw itHe saw a man named ArmstrongWalk upon the moonYoung girl in CalcuttaBarel...

Last Song For Mother Nanci Griffith

"If I promise not to cry,Will you look me in the eye,And tell me that you've known me.I was your late, your lonely child,I am enhanced by all you've shown me. And in my youth I did defy you to the ...

In The Wee Small Hours Nanci Griffith

In the wee small hours of the morningWhile the whole wide world is fast asleepYou lie awake and think about the girlAnd never ever think of counting sheepWhen your lonely heart has learned its less...

Woman of the Phoenix Nanci Griffith

Well, I've listend tothe words you lovers speakThe sound f the lover's songAnd I've dreamed all the dreams that a wayward girl dreamsIn a thousand places goneDallas was my late night outRadcliffe's...

Tecumseh Valley Nanci Griffith

The name she gave was CarolineDaughter of a minerAnd her ways were freeIt seemed to meThe sunshine walked beside herShe came to SpencerAcross the hillShe said he Pa had sent her'Cause the coal was ...

Three Flights Up Nanci Griffith

We returned to that five room flatNow it was empty and this the last timeTher were blinking picturesOf how we'd sit and chatSome of them are scatteredOthers shattered in my mindChorus:It was always...

Boots Of Spanish Leather Nanci Griffith

Oh I'm sailing away, my own true loveI'm sailing away in the morningIs there something I can send you from across the sea?From the place where I'll be landing?There's nothing you can send me, my ow...

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Nanci Griffith

You come home lateAnd you come home earlyYou come on bigWhen you`re feelin` smallYou come home straightAnd you home curlySometimes you just don`t come home at allSo what in the world`s come over yo...

From Clare To Here Nanci Griffith

Four who shared this room and we caught up in the CRAICSleeping late on Sundays and we never got to MassIt`s a long way from Clare to hereIt`s a long way from Clare to hereIt`s a long, long wayIt g...

Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Nanci Griffith

It`s a long and dusty roadIt`s a hot and heavy loadAnd the folks I meet ain`t always kindSome are bad and some are goodSome have done the best they couldSome have tried to ease my trouble in mindAn...

Do Re Mi Nanci Griffith

well thousands of folks back east they sayare leaving home most everydaythey're beatin the hot old dusty wayto the california lineacross the desert sands they rollgettin' outta that old dust bowlth...

This Old Town Nanci Griffith

This old town should`ve burned down in 1929That`s when we stood in lineWaiting for our soupSwallowing our prideThis old town should`ve burned down in 1931When the rain refused to comeAir filled up ...

Comin' Down In The Rain Nanci Griffith

Flipped into the windLike the ashes of her cigaretteHe got scattered thrown on the breezeAs he tried to forgetHe lost all his heatAnd his heart never will be the sameHe got lighter than airBut he`l...

Ten Degrees and Getting Colder Nanci Griffith

He was standing by the highwayWith a sign that just said MotherWhen he heard a driver comingAbout a half a mile awaySo he held the sign up higherWhere no decent soul could miss itIt was ten degrees...

Morning Song for Sally Nanci Griffith

As the morning light stretched in across my bedI thought of youRemembering your laughing eyes and all we saidI love you tooAs all my thoughts of you pass `fore my face a thousand timesThe way they ...

Night Rider's Lament Nanci Griffith

While I was out a-ridin`The graveyard shift midnight till dawnThe moon was as bright as a reading light For a letter from an old friend back homeHe asked meWhy do you ride for your money?Why do you...

Are You Tired Of Me Darling Nanci Griffith

Are you tired of me my darlingDid you mean those words you saidThat have made me yours foreverSince the day when we were wedTell me, would you live life overCould you make another wifeAre you tired...

Turn Around Nanci Griffith

Where are you goin` my little one, little one?Where are you goin` my baby my own?Turn around and you`re twoTurn around and you`re fourTurn around and you`re a young girlGoing out the doorTurn aroun...

Everything's Comin' Up Roses Nanci Griffith

This life is filled with wonderThis life is full of days not spentOh I cannot help but ponderWhat relevance that lendsOh but everything is comin` up rosesAnd when I`m pushing daisiesThey`ll want ro...

Two For The Road Nanci Griffith

Out of the blue horizonStretched a band of goldFrom the straits of Juan de FucaTo the east of Portland, MaineYou held my handAs we raced along the buffalo bayouChasing the tail of this globeYou say...

Wouldn't That Be Fine Nanci Griffith

If you could stand behind my eyes for just one dayCould you see my heart beside you?If you knew my love had never flown awayWould I be missing you wouldn`t that be rosesWouldn`t that be fineIf I co...

I Live On A Battlefield Nanci Griffith

"I live on a battlefieldSurrounded by the ruins of a love we builtAnd then destroyed between us, the smoke has clearedAs I stumble through the rubble, I'm dazed and seein' double And I'm truly myst...

Saint Teresa Of Avila Nanci Griffith

Saint Teresa, your patron child`s come homeWere you there to greet her?Did your angels know her songsAnd all her sorrowsDid you lift them from her browDid you kiss her hand that took her soulBack u...

Gulf Coast Highway Nanci Griffith

"Gulf Coast HighwayHe worked the railsHe worked the rice fieldsWith their cool dark wellsHe worked the oil rigs in theGulf of MexicoThe only thing we've ever ownedIs this old house here by the road...

I Fought The Law Nanci Griffith

Breakin` rocks in the hot sunI fought the law and the law wonI fought the law and the law wonI needed money and I had noneI fought the law and the law wonI fought the law and the lawn wonI left my ...

Not My Way Home Nanci Griffith

I know you believe in miraclesThat this love will come back aroundI know you believe the grass is growingAcross this winterTo the south of this townI know your kiss is sweeterThan the dust that thi...

Maybe Tomorrow Nanci Griffith

I will find somebody newMaybe tomorrowI will stop this missing youMaybe tomorrowTime`s the healer time`s the keySo all the wise folks sayOh, maybe tomorrowBut not todayLife will once again make sen...

Waiting For Love Nanci Griffith

Life is full of finer thingsThey`re lost and found in the darkIt`s the dog by the highwayWho said,"Goin` my way?"Now, he lives in your own backyardHe was waiting for loveYou came along and fit the ...

I'll Move Along Nanci Griffith

This flesh and bone ain`t much protectionFor an honest heart like mineA broken home for good intentionsDamaged inventions of my designI`ll move along time to move alongI`ll move along time to move ...