Tell Me How Nanci Griffith

"[Chorus:] Tell me how to keep your love You know how I need your love Tell me how you keep the love Within your heart from me Don't you know that I love you Let me show why; I'm true blue When I know

Are You Tired Of Me Darling Nanci Griffith

Are you tired of me my darling Did you mean those words you said That have made me yours forever Since the day when we were wed Tell me, would you live life over Could you make another wife Are you tired

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

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.

Where Would I Be Nanci Griffith

(Paul Carrack) Tell me where Would I be now without you Without an angel Watching out for me Took a long, long time For me to realize All my faith in you Was so justified Tell me where Would I be without

Saint Teresa Of Avila Nanci Griffith

Did your angels know her songs And all her sorrows Did you lift them from her brow Did you kiss her hand that took her soul Back up to you Our Patron saint of harmony and vow Help me in this stillness

Late Night Grande Hotel Nanci Griffith

I am just learning how to fly away again It's not the way you say you'll hear my heart when the music ends I am just learning how to fly away again And maybe you were thinking that you thought you knew

Not Innocent Enough Nanci Griffith

Just how many of us are innocent enough? Just how many of us are innocent enough?

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

Brave Companion Of The Road (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

With your suitcase by the back porch stairs With my heart in your hand In this cold December wind again The cafes and bars are closed The Christmas lights are veiled in snow Tell me, where are you going

Late Night Grande Hotel (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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 Leavin' is all I've ever known before [Chorus:] It's not the way you hold me

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?

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

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

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

These Days In An Open Book Nanci Griffith

this road a day And put this silence in my heart in a better place I have travelled with your ghost now so many years That I see you in the shadows In hotel rooms and headlights You're coming up beside me

I'll Move Along Nanci Griffith

heart like mine A broken home for good 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

There's A Light Beyond These Woods (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

All the dreams we sang when we knew how, Well, they haven't changed. There's never been two friends like you and me, Mary Margaret. It's nice to see you family growing, Margaret.

Beautiful Nanci Griffith

And then you and my mother, walking hand in hand And she was beautiful and you played the piano You were beautiful upon the keys The world was beautiful when the two of you were dancing Beautiful to me

Shaking Out The Snow Nanci Griffith

Snowing - I am shaking out the snow Oh, the cold that is within my heart I'm gonna shake out all that snow Riding years ago Through those South Dakota roads When the laughter could thaw Enderby And shake me

Morning Song for Sally Nanci Griffith

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

Mountain Of Sorrow Nanci Griffith

짝steep What you see, the new me Changing right before your eyes Like a leaf on a tree Letting go before she flies And it's just one more sorrow To throw upon the heap Mountain of sorrow창?

Desperadoes Waiting For A Train Nanci Griffith

) And I'd play the red river valley And he'd sit in the kitchen and he'd cry And run his fingers Through seventy years of living And wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry We were friends me

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

Nickel Dreams (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

long time And she's walked a fine line For fortune and fame have arrived She kept on striving And half-way surviving Till part of those dreams came alive [Chorus:] Now she wishes she looked like they tell

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

Two For The Road Nanci Griffith

We have been blessed with dreaming You had Georgia`s New Mexico And while your hands worked in China It was from Ireland I wrote Moving out from America From those buffalo bayou trails Now, didn`t you tell

Radio Fragile (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Someone says they've seen you out there laughing at us all You mourned the cause of discontent with those who couldn't lose the dark From the broad of daylight to half spent stars just waiting dusk to fall Tell

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

The Loving Kind Nanci Griffith

Separated till they made their bail They changed the heart of a nation With their wedding vows From the highest court in the land Their union would lawfully stand Simply Mildred and Richard That's how

Ten Degrees and Getting Colder Nanci Griffith

Boulder Dam that day He was raised up in Milwaukee Though he never was that famous He was just a road musician To the taverns he would go Singing songs about the ramblin` The lovin` girls and gamblin` How

Across The Great Divide Nanci Griffith

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 and d papers They tell

Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

in movies and dashboard lights Where is she now The backseat queen of fraternity Where is she now She's heavy on thigh And light on integrity Someone should have told her When beauty's all you offer How

Hometown Streets (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Everybody packs their goals And sails away for better shores I have seen times My sails have held a brilliant shine I hear tell that dreams come true Along these crowded avenues But, my peace of mind Is

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Nanci Griffith

You`ve broken the speed of the sound of loneliness You`re out there runnin` Just to be on the run Well, I got a heart that burns with a fever And I got a worried and jealous mind Well how can a love That

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 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

One Blade Shy Of A Sharp Edge (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

too loud But you think you got it made Think you got it made Think you got it made When you're one blade shy of a sharp edge Republican is the way you vote You've got a sticker on your bumper that's how

Roses On The 4th Of July Nanci Griffith

Their friends would all tell you they're like day and night, Their daughter's an actress, she is strong and she's bright.

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

Still Life Nanci Griffith

never thought you'd have to take it It's still life, but it's broken It's still life, when it's torn It's still life that you're walking On and on and on and on and on You need to change You don't know how

Fields Of Summer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

of summer Can you hold me?

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

One Of These Days Nanci Griffith

We walk along the Hudson when it snows here in Manhattan seems we've lived our lives so out of place You touch my cheek and I do wonder how this happened that two young lovers could pack their dreams

Let It Shine On Me (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

There's a star in Heaven's sky Always shining bright It's just a tear in an Angel's eye A gentle guiding light Let it shine on me Let it show the way Let it always be Let it always stay Let it flood my

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?

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

Goin' Back To Georgia Nanci Griffith

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 chased me

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

Heart Of Indochine Nanci Griffith

of 1954 When the bodies washed ashore from that distant war My friend Michael came in '68 The bodies still floating with the dinner boats sailing Beside all those souls of the American war Oh, deliver me