Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) Nanci Griffith

border To pay all their wages To wade back again Goodbye to you Juan, goodbye Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria You won`t have a name When you ride the big airplane All they will call you Will be deportee

Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) The Byrds

The crops are all in and the peaches are rottingThe oranges piled up in their creosote dumpsYou're flying 'em back to the Mexican borderTo spend all their money to wade back againGoodbye to my Juan...

Deportee/ Plane Wreck At Los Gatos Judy Collins

died in your hills, we died in your deserts We died in your valleys and died on your plains We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes Both sides of the river, we died just the same The sky plane

Deportee Peter, Paul & Mary

like outlaws, like thieves on the run [Chorus:] Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane All they will call you will be deportee

DEPORTEE Woody Guthrie/Martin Hoff

All they will call you is just deportee. My father's own father, he waded that river. They took all the money he made in his life.

Outbound Plane (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I don't wanna be standing here With this ticket for this outbound plane Oh, I've been here before Somehow this doesn't feel the same Talk is cheap So we could talk all night long And we may never figure

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

Deportee (Lifelines Live Version) Peter, Paul & Mary

like outlaws, like thieves on the run [Chorus:] Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane All they will call you will be deportee

Back When Ted Loved Sylvia Nanci Griffith

cocktails Angry verses and sad pleas Dutiful wife and mother The poet behind her man Back when Ted loved Sylvia The tempests that were howling And tearing them apart Were forces that had been in place To wreck

Waiting For Love Nanci Griffith

, their pockets may be empty Yet they are waiting for love (love) And that`s enough to fill our days It`s the heartworn jokes of your dear father And the laughter in your own mother`s heart It`s that plane

Radio Fragile (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

fragile heart And you were odd within the ways of the social You through a caution to us all And now when the late night drinkers gather for their falls Someone says they've seen you out there laughing at

Heart Of Indochine Nanci Griffith

Michael came in '68 The bodies still floating with the dinner boats sailing Beside all those souls of the American war Oh, deliver me to the river of souls In the heart of Indochina Deliver me to a River at

Love At The Five And Dime Nanci Griffith

Love at the Five and Dime 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

I Still Miss Someone Nanci Griffith

At my door the leaves are falling The cold wild wind will come Sweethearts walk by together And I still miss someone I go out on a party To look for a little fun But I find a darkened corner Because I

It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I am a backseat driver from America They drive to the left on Falls Road The man at the wheel's name is Seamus We pass a child on the corner he knows And Seamus says, "Now, what chance has that Kid got

Cotton Nanci Griffith

You come 'cross my mind from time to time, Now look at me. I'm standing at your door with my heart in your hands. Ain't you gonna ask me in?

Pour Me A Drink Nanci Griffith

Pour me a drink Light me a cigarette Help me forget The things that I've done Pour me a drink Then pour me another one To keep out this cold wind That blows through my soul Look at my life Here

Do Re Mi Nanci Griffith

beatin the hot old dusty way to the california line across the desert sands they roll gettin' outta that old dust bowl they think they're going to a sugar bowl but here is what they find oh the police at

Rise To The Occasion Nanci Griffith

never fall in love But rise to the occasion" To have loved and lost, I know the cost I fell and almost drowned If not for you, I'd have missed this view From higher ground Now we can touch the sky above At

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Nanci Griffith

You come home late And you come home early You come on big When you`re feelin` small You come home straight And you home curly Sometimes you just don`t come home at all So what in the world`s come over

Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

love was untrue You can cry your eyes out, I've got a shoulder here for you And every day your broken heart's gonna turn a lighter shade of blue [Chorus:] Cause anyone can be somebody's fool Oh look at

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

The Wing And The Wheel Nanci Griffith

We used to linger beneath street lamps with our halos and the smoke Then the wing and the wheel came to carry them away Now they all live out in the suburbs where their dreams Are in their children at

I Wish It Would Rain (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

like diamonds When the diamonds fall they burn like tears When the diamonds fall they burn like tears Once I had a love from the Georgia Pans who only cared for me I want to find that love of 22 here at

I'll Move Along Nanci Griffith

intentions Damaged inventions of my design I`ll move along time to move along I`ll move along time to move along I`m slow to move these feet of clay You passed me by now you`re in my way I take my change at

Things I Don't Need Nanci Griffith

t need Like a bag you unpack at the end of a trip You?re wondering why did I take all of this? These things I don?t need, weigh me down I woke up today and I made up my mind From now on I?

Never Mind (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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

The Streets Of Baltimore Nanci Griffith

tickets She had often begged me for And they took us to the streets of Baltimore Well my heart was filled with laughter When I saw those city lights She said the prettiest place on earth Was Baltimore at

Darcy Farrow Nanci Griffith

Vandy in his pain put a bullet in his brain And we buried them together as the snows began to fall They sing of Darcy Farrow where the Truckee runs through They sing of her beautyin Virginia City too At

Tecumseh Valley Nanci Griffith

And for a dime a day And a place to stay She'd turn those hands to labor But the times were hard Lord The jobs were few All through Tecumseh Valley But she asked around And a job she found Tending bar at

From A Distance Nanci Griffith

songs of home, playing songs of peace They're the songs of every man God is watching us, God is watching us God is watching us from a distance From a distance you look like my friend Even though we are at

Saint Teresa Of Avila Nanci Griffith

Back up to you Our Patron saint of harmony and vow Help me in this stillness Tell me things I need to know How we loved your patron child We say, so long and so long ago Saint Teresa Can you speak to me at

Gulf Coast Highway Nanci Griffith

will fly away to Heaven come Some sweet blue bonnet spring Highway 90 The jobs are gone We tend our garden We set the sun This is the only place on earth Blue bonnets grow Once a year they come and go At

Last Train Home Nanci Griffith

Now, you're wandering El Paso Searching for your broken heart and truth She was all you ever had And the only thing you ever had to lose With a juke box playing Charlie Rich You're lining up your shots at

So Long Ago (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

daddy sent me on to Baton Rouge in 1969 He said our love was like a forest fire and he'd end it with a mind So you rode with us to Temple, Texas where I did catch the train And I remember waving back at

It's Too Late (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

always love you In spite of myself I can feel the weather changing The leaves are tired and turned with anger They fall around us like a veil Of golden tears You have never needed me And I'm not good at

Beautiful Nanci Griffith

Here's a photograph of you in Woody Hermann's band It was 1952, you were such a handsome man One of you at a memorial with all of Hoagy's clan And then you and my mother, walking hand in hand And she was

Tumble And Fall (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Your late night conversation Telephone call and an inspiration For a heart to recall, had a tumble and fall And my friends all say I'm lazy Clumsy at love and I'm middle age crazy I stumble along with

Trouble In The Fields Nanci Griffith

locust out there turning away our yield The trains roll by our silos, silver in the rain They leave our pockets full of nothing But our dreams and the golden grain Have you seen the folks in line downtown at

Trouble In The Fields (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

locust out there turning away our yield The trains roll by our silos, silver in the rain They leave our pockets full of nothing But our dreams and the golden grain Have you seen the folks in line downtown at

This Old Town Nanci Griffith

land There must be rock beneath this sand Oh, I`ll be damned This town still stands This old town should`ve burned down in 1944 When the last men went to war They came back different If they came back at

Night Rider's Lament Nanci Griffith

seen the spring hit the Great Divide Oh, they never heard old Camp Cookie sing I read up the last of my letter And tore off the stamp for Black Jim Little Dougie rode up to relieve me He just looked at

I Love This Town Nanci Griffith

bed I love this town of the living dead I love this town gonna paint it red If I can spare a minute I love this town where curtains twitch Where this door scratches next door's itch It's a pantomime at

Hard Times Come Again No More Nanci Griffith

, hard times come again no more Many days you have lingered Around my cabin door Oh hard times come again no more While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay There are frail forms fainting at

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

Ten Degrees and Getting Colder Nanci Griffith

Boulder he had told her I don`t know when, I`ve had a better friend It was out in Arizona That he heard the lady listening To each word that he was saying To each line that he would write So he sat down at

Big Blue Ball Of War Nanci Griffith

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 it's own Spinning history in lines of blood When many souls fell off And

Dress Of Laces Nanci Griffith

has a need for ahrin` 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 the man she loves in years And her mother is a waitress At

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...

Money Changes Everything Nanci Griffith

In the rush of the river and the roar of the crowd You can't hear the silence calling When it's merely a whisper of a cloud In a crazy storm that pulls you on Take a pill or you might take a loss A...