Rise To The Occasion Nanci Griffith

I'll never fall in love again It's such a contradiction To lose all control and common sense And even intuition You came along, with a strange new song And the sweetest innovation And you said, "One should

Angels Nanci Griffith

to leave it Bound to learn the secrets Angels never heard Close enough to heaven Above the rain Darkness cannot reach us Let the angels teach us Only love remains We're lifted up by angels You understand

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

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

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

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

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

Tumble And Fall (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

a tumble and fall Or maybe I'll come to my senses Or come back to you when the fences are mended Maybe love is a quiet whisper after all Maybe love is a heart that heals you Harmony when you can't recall

Yarrington Town Nanci Griffith

I packed up my suitcase Pulled down my old bedroll And I started to wander Far from my home And the time it passed quickly And the days seemed to be hours Far from your city And Yarrington Town Well, I

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

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

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

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

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

Beacon Street (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Gonna wake up crazy to the cry of the trains on Beacon Street So far from home, so far from love, so far from a friend in need And all I need is a heart to hold and a good night's sleep And all I have

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

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

Waiting For Love Nanci Griffith

Tripping over your own feet He claims you still anyway Waiting for love God forgives your lack of grace Everyone I know From my dust bowl to the city Is waiting for love (love) To start another day They

I Wish It Would Rain (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Oh I wish it would rain and wash my face clean I want to find some dark cloud to hide in here Oh love and a memory sparkle like diamonds When the diamonds fall they burn like tears When the diamonds fall

From Clare To Here Nanci Griffith

Four who shared this room and we caught up in the CRAIC Sleeping late on Sundays and we never got to Mass 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

Beautiful Nanci Griffith

piano You were beautiful upon the keys The world was beautiful when the two of you were dancing Beautiful to me You took a photograph of us, your ladies liberty My hair was in the breeze then I played

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

Late Night Grande Hotel Nanci Griffith

I'm working on a morning flight to anywhere but here I'm watching this evening fire burn away my tears All my life I've left my troubles by the door 'Cos leaving is all I've ever known before It's not

The Streets Of Baltimore Nanci Griffith

I sold the farm to take me woman Where she longed to be We left our kin and all our friends Back there in Tennessee I bought the one way tickets She had often begged me for And they took us to the streets

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?

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.

Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) Nanci Griffith

The crops are all in And the peaches are rotting The oranges are stacked In their Creosote dumps They`re flying them back To that Mexico border To pay all their wages To wade back again Goodbye to you

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

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

So Long Ago (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

My 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

Three Flights Up Nanci Griffith

We returned to that five room flat Now it was empty and this the last time Ther were blinking pictures Of how we'd sit and chat Some of them are scattered Others shattered in my mind Chorus: It was always

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?

You Made This Love A Teardrop (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

The truth you tried to keep from me, Well, it nearly drove me crazy, And I have grown weary from sleepless nights of you. Is that a broken heart in the corner of your eye, Something to remind you?

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

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

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

Wasn't That A Mighty Storm Nanci Griffith

on the ocean Death calls, you got to go Now Galveston had a seawall To keep the water down, and a High tide from the coean Spread the water over the town Wasn`t that a mighty storm Wasn`t that a mighty

Old Hanoi Nanci Griffith

Where are all the Satchel Boys Selling books outside the Metripole?

Radio Fragile (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

We all said you'd never make it Cause you had that 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

Lone Star State Of Mind Nanci Griffith

Your phone call took my by surprise Gee, it's been a long, long time Since those hot and humid Texas nights When we went swimm'n in the tide Corpus Christi seems so far away And I'm not talk'n 'bout the

Heaven (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I think I'll go to Heaven There I will lay me down Leave all the pain behind me I'll bury it in the ground Maybe they'll talk about me I pray it won't be lies I think I'll go to heaven Heaven is in your

Goin' Back To Georgia Nanci Griffith

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 travelling kind And I'm coming around from years of hard times He's

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

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

Boots Of Spanish Leather Nanci Griffith

There's nothing you can send me, my own true love There's nothing I'm wishing to be owning Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled From across that lonesome ocean Oh, but I just thought you might want

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

It`s a long and dusty road It`s a hot and heavy load And the folks I meet ain`t always kind Some are bad and some are good Some have done the best they could Some have tried to ease my trouble in mind

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

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

Before Nanci Griffith

I dreamed of Louisiana And a night in Lafayette We had breakfast with Susanna We were young and wild and left What's different here Than in that dream and in reality Is we weren't afraid to fail in love

It's Too Late (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You pace the pool and talk about it I read my book and think about it You've walked on water As I'm turning the page You say, What's the intrigue here, In reading when the sky is clear?