Across The Great Divide Nanci Griffith

I've been walkin' in my sleep Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep Where the years went I can't say I just turned around and they've gone away I've been siftin' through the layers Of dusty books

Night Rider's Lament Nanci Griffith

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

Across America Nanci Griffith

I've heard enough from pundits I've heard our leaders speak I tell you know I'd rather talk to the people in the street 'Cause you don't know someone Until you've looked them in the eye And that

Do Re Mi Nanci Griffith

well thousands of folks back east they say are leaving home most everyday they're beatin the hot old dusty way to the california line across the desert sands they roll gettin' outta that old dust bowl

Down 'N' Outer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Last Train Home Nanci Griffith

By the Time I Get to Phoenix Was the last song on your mind the day you left You woke up in Nogales With Tequila with her name across your chest You've stumbled through the morning In these border tourists

Morning Song for Sally Nanci Griffith

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

Boots Of Spanish Leather Nanci Griffith

Oh I'm sailing away, my own true love I'm sailing away in the morning Is there something I can send you from across the sea? From the place where I'll be landing?

Sing Nanci Griffith

I heard the music long ago, songs that rent the air Fading in and out at night while I was lying there Voices soft and lonely and later rock and roll Flying across the Rio Grande, straight into my soul

Who Knows Where The Time Goes Nanci Griffith

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

Not My Way Home Nanci Griffith

I know you believe in miracles That this love will come back around I know you believe the grass is growing Across this winter To the south of this town I know your kiss is sweeter Than the dust that this

Listen To The Radio (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I am leaving Mississippi in the evening rain These Delta towns wear satin gowns In a high beamed frame Loretta Lynn guides my hands through the radio Where would I be in times like these Without the songs

Tecumseh Valley Nanci Griffith

The name she gave was Caroline Daughter of a miner And her ways were free It seemed to me The sunshine walked beside her She came to Spencer Across the hill She said he Pa had sent her 'Cause the coal

Walk Right Back Nanci Griffith

I want you to tell me Why you walked out on me I`m so lonesome everyday I want you to know That since you walked out on me Nothing seems to be the same ole way Think about the love that burns Within my

Back When Ted Loved Sylvia Nanci Griffith

They both wrote poetry In fact, that was how they met He was a Yorkshire man in Cambridge She was from Massachusetts They spoke and they fell in love They kissed and picked daffodils She came across the

Fields Of Summer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Trouble In The Fields Nanci Griffith

"Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fields When the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yield The trains roll by our silos, silver in the rain They leave our pockets full of nothing

Trouble In The Fields (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fields When the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yield The trains roll by our silos, silver in the rain They leave our pockets full of nothing

Shaking Out The Snow Nanci Griffith

Snowing - through South Dakota I once drove With the wife of my best pal Who cloaks her heart from cold with gold It was well into the winter Of December in the cold Off to see Mount Rushmore staring through

Hard Times Come Again No More Nanci Griffith

Let us pause in life`s pleasures and count its many tears While we all sup sorrow with the poor There`s a song that will linger forever in our ears; Oh, hard times come again no more `Tis the song, the

The Wing And The Wheel Nanci Griffith

The wing and the wheel now they carry things away Whether it's me that does the leavin' or that love that flies away Moon outside my window looks so lonely tonight There's a chunk out of it's middle It's

I Fought The Law Nanci Griffith

Breakin` rocks in the hot sun I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won I needed money and I had none I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the lawn won I left my

Wall Of Death Nanci Griffith

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

Heart Of Indochine Nanci Griffith

I am on a Riverboat on the Saigon River Where the music's too loud While I try to have my dinner Stories I've been told of 1954 When the bodies washed ashore from that distant war My friend Michael came

Leaving The Harbor (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

When you are leaving the harbor Do you cry out to the shore? Do you bless the wave of the ocean Do you call your vessel home? As you leave the safest harbor Do you wonder where you'll go?

Up Against the Rain Nanci Griffith

well what pain is You took it on yourself to pave the road to hell Paid your dues and sang the blues, Lord, you knew them all too well Every word upon the page, you let them sail away The wind would blow

The Power Lines (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Nobody seems to care about you With your tool case by the roadside There beneath the power lines Or the pallor of your skin Paled beneath fluorescent lights In a Greyhound station's cruel midnight Where

Late Night Grande Hotel Nanci Griffith

the way you hold me when the sun goes down It's not the way you call my name that left me stranded on the ground It's not the way you'll say you'll hear my heart when the music ends No...

Wasn't That A Mighty Storm Nanci Griffith

Wasn`t that a mighty storm Wasn`t that a mighty storm in the morning, well Wasn`t that a mighty storm That blew all the people away You know the year of 1900 Children, many years ago Death cakme howling

The Loving Kind Nanci Griffith

They were the loving kind She was black and he was white In Virginia, nineteen fifty eight They found love amongst the hate Well, the law said they could not wed They married anyway The sheriff put

Lost Him In The Sun Nanci Griffith

(John Stewart) Any given day there's a jet flying somwhere Oh, we bought a ticket and vanished in the sky And how was I to know he was leaving in the morning I never heard him go and then he never said

It's Just Another Morning Here (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

The telephone is ringin' in the middle of the night And I pull the bed clothes higher Will it stop calling out if I turn on the light?

The Ghost Inside Of Me Nanci Griffith

All the papers lie tonight But falling over you Is the news of the day Angels fall like rain And love, is all of heaven way Inside you the time moves and she don fade The ghost in you she don fade away

From A Distance Nanci Griffith

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

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

Comin' Down In The Rain Nanci Griffith

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

In The Wee Small Hours Nanci Griffith

In the wee small hours of the morning While the whole wide world is fast asleep You lie awake and think about the girl And never ever think of counting sheep When your lonely heart has learned its lesson

Woman of the Phoenix Nanci Griffith

Well, I've listend tothe words you lovers speak The sound f 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

Armstrong Nanci Griffith

(John Stewart) Black boy in Chicago Playing in the street Not near enough to wear Not near enough to eat Don't you know he saw it He saw a man named Armstrong Walk upon the moon Young girl in Calcutta

Summer Wages Nanci Griffith

Never hit seventeen When you play against the dealer You know that the odds Won`t ride with you And never leave your woman alone With your friends around to steal her She`ll be gambled and gone Like summer

Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

Gulf Coast Highway Nanci Griffith

"Gulf Coast Highway He worked the rails He worked the rice fields With their cool dark wells He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico The only thing we've ever owned Is this old house here by the road

San Diego Serenade (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I never saw the morning 'til I stayed up all night I never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out the light I never saw my hometown 'til I'd stayed away too long I never heard the melody until I needed the

Beacon Street (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

is the cry of the trains as they bid farewell on Beacon Street [Chorus:] And here I am again I'm in the company of strangers It's a cold winter wind that sings a song You say your love is lost I'm not

Nobody's Angel Nanci Griffith

nobody's angel now (she's out of the country now) Nobody's angel now (she's out of the country now) And if I can't give love I can't rise above the clouds Nobody's angel now I was the forest for love

Darcy Farrow Nanci Griffith

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

Try The Love Nanci Griffith

Before you marry, before you mend Or have someone`s children, long before then You could find something with somebody new Try the love I`m offering in my open arms Before you do We should have quarreled

Angels Nanci Griffith

The touch of your hand will let me know You take me in and let me go If not for love why would we meet How is it done two into one so easily We're lifted up by angels Higher than the world Strong enough

Love In A Memory (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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.

Simple Life Nanci Griffith

[Chorus:] I want a simple life Like my mother One true love for my older years I don't want your wars To take my children I want a simple life... while I'm here The sun and moon walk hand in hand together