(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 it's keys And God ...

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 ...

(Nanci Griffith - Maggie Graham) Southern man, you sure are pretty, Got a smile to still the city And Lord, you know, you got those sleepy eyes Alabama sweet-t...

I saw you on the avenue You looked so tired and a little blue You were in your Sunday best With your father's tie upon your chest (chorus) Hey, you always stood...

The touch of your hand will let me know You'll take me in then let me go If not for love why would we meet? How is it turned two into one so easily? We're lift...

Let me say this one more time Just in case you didn't hear it right I'll put it in my own words So I'll know it's understood You sent me out on a lim You brough...

Let me say this one more time Just in case you didn't hear it right I'll put it in my own words So I'll know it's understood You sent me out on a lim You brough...

(G P Cook - Ralph Roland) 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 Ch...

(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 ...

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 kiss...

(By Richard Dobson) Mamma's in the kitchen rattlin' pans and the baby cries, On the TV news, somebody died He was a crazy biker in a motorcycle ridin' daredevi...

I'm goin' back where my garden blooms all year Where the wintertime speaks softly in the fallin' rain I'm goin' back to my green eyed lover there and we will da...

(Nick Lowe - Paul Carrack) I live on a battlefield Surrounded by the ruins of a love we built And then destroyed between us, the smoke has cleared As I stumble...

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...

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 ...

I dreamed of Louisiana And a night in Lafayette We had breakfast with Susanna We were young and wild and left (chorus) What's different here than in that drea...

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 its own Spinning history in li...

After you go, I can catch up on my reading And after you go, I'll have a lot more time for sleeping And when you're gone Looks like things are gonna get a lot e...

(Nanci Griffith) Where are you going there? With your suitcase by the back porch stairs With my heart in your hand In this cold December wind again The cafes a...

(Tom Paxton) 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...

He is from the work of a Southern writer Where everyman's a fighter Where the strong survive And the weak move north to rest He had lines of silver and hands th...

(Tom Russell) In the hills of Montana There's a timber wolf howlin' The rangers are prowlin' For a woman alone She'd run away from an Indian lover He'll never ...

(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...

My bags are waiting in a cab downstairs I've got a ticket in my pocket says I'll make it out of here And I came by here just to tell you good-by I can see it in...

(By Buddy Mondlock) 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 ...

(James Hooker) 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 shor...

Oh, I used to wish I was a hard line taker and they'd say, "Six to one a half dozen'll break her", 'till I fell in love with a young man who sang the blues Oh, ...

(Tom Campbell - Steve Gillette) Where the Walker runs down into the Carson Valley plain There lived a young maiden Darcy Farrow was her name The daughter of ol...

(By Eric Taylor) Well, the good times scratched a laugh From the lungs of the young men In a Deadwood saloon, South Dakota afternoon And the old ones by the do...

(Woody Guthrie - Martin Hoffman) The crops are all in And the peaches are rotting The oranges are stacked In their Creosote dumps They're flying them back To t...

(Guy Clark) 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, ha...

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 th...

(By Eric Taylor) Ronnie stood beneath the movie marquee His memories all curled up inside He was trying to remember Was it August or September He'd seen her fo...

I can't be your weather If it rains then it rains I can't be your lover Cuz the feelings would change I can't be the wind Cuz the wind blows too free But if you...

I look out on these shields of heather Across this countryside I wonder how they've grown together While people live such separate lives I think I'll stay insid...

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 mi...

(John Grimaudo - Saylor White) And she has a dress of laces It's worn in many places The shoulder hangs upon her by a thread And she has a need for ahrin' For ...

(Nanci Griffith) Sister had a crystal voice She played a Silvertone from Montgomery Ward Baez songs in Monroe hair She sure could turn the boys' head to stare ...

(Frank Christian) The drops from the faucet like a nervous heart Beat on my porcelain sink a rhythm avant-garde I page through the phone book, reach for my fou...

(Nanci Griffith - Matthew Ryan) This life is filled with wonder This life is full of days not spent Oh I cannot help but ponder What relevance that lends Chor...

(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 night Love has chased me down Through...

Oh, its just another summer mornin', Baby, somewhere in this town The heat is rising Oh, I know where you spent last night so you can stop apologizing You say t...

She drove west from Salt Lake City to the California coastline She hit the San Diego Freeway doing sixty miles an hour She had a husband on her bumper She had f...

I look out on these shields of heather Across this countryside I wonder how they've grown together While people live such separate lives I think I'll stay insid...

I am not a child, though you'll treat me as you've always seen me You never saw the changes in a heart grown old and wise Hey, it's good to see you smile, it's ...

(By Julie Gold) 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 tak...

(Ralph McTell) Four who shared this room and we caught up in the CRAIC Sleeping late on Sundays and we never got to Mass Chorus It's a long way from Clare to ...

(By Nanci Griffith & Eric Taylor) Down at the station the tracks are cold The wheels of thunder, they roll no more And the heart of America cries for the souls...

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 co...

(Buddy Mondlock) 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...

There's a lighthouse in the harbor Giving guidance with it's light But, I had no one to return to As I wandered through the night From the first time that I sa...

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 traveling kind And I'm co...

My mother came to America Sailed through the harbor of hopes and of dreams Back in the Thirties With the streets paved in gold And the sky laced with moonbeams ...

Flippin' bottle caps through the ring around the moon All alone on a Saturday night with the stars in bloom I am a vision of my mother's dream come true Built t...

Grapefruit moon One star shining Shining down on me I heard that tune and now I'm pining Honey, can't you see Every time I hear that melody Something breaks ins...

by Nanci Griffith, James Hooker, Danny Flowers Gulf coast highway, he worked the rails He worked the rice fields with their cold dark wells He worked the oil ri...

(Stephen Collins Foster) Let us pause in life's pleasures and count it's many tears While we all sup sorrow with the poor There's a song that will linger forev...

(Traditional) He was a friend of mine He was a friend of mine Never had no money To pay for his fine He was a friend of mine He never done no wrong He never d...

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 fr...

(Julie Gold) 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 w...

Chorus: Hell no, I'm not alright You can talk all day and ask all night. Nothin's gonna change- no wind in sight, Hell no, I'm not alright. Did you really thi...

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) Everybody packs their goals And sails away for better shores I have seen times My sails have held a brilliant shine I hear tell...

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) I don't wanna talk about love 'cause I've heard it before And it talks too loud You can hear it in a disco midnight Shouting I ...

Sonny Curtis 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 t...

by Roger Brown I knew love when it still meant forever When a feeling shared didn't always have to hurt And the promise that was made would go unbroken I knew ...

(with Jimmy Buffett) I love this town"¦ like an unmade bed I love this town"¦ of the living dead I love this town"¦ gonna paint it red If I can spare a minute ...

(Nanci Griffith) Oh, your golden lights of America, Joseph sought your prairies and your buffalo And the humming of the rails down through Kansas, they brought...

(Johnny Cash - Roy Cash, Jr) 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 ...

by Nanci Griffith Chorus: 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 diamon...

Song I Would Bring You Ireland I would bring you Ireland The cool sweet of the Dublin rain If you would keep my heart for me In the quiet of your Texas days An...

by Robert Earl Keen, Jr You never liked this place where we'd been living all alone So you packed up your things and bought a one-way ticket home And leaving n...

Griffith/Littlefield This flesh and bone ain't much protection For an honest heart like mine A broken home for good intentions Damaged inventions of my design I...

From Boston to Southshore in the back of the bus It's the last winter storm of the season and such And I am lost to the fiction of the book in my lap The snow m...

(By Pete Seeger & Lee Hays) If I had a hammer I'd hammer in the morning I'd hammer in the evening All over this land I'd hammer out danger I'd hammer out a war...

Now they all sat around in a circle They were laughing and all telling lies Then the tall one he bumped in a dollar Oh he said boys I've got nothing to hide Now...

If these old walls If these old walls could speak What a tale it had to tell Hard headed people raising hell A couple in love living week to week Rooms full of ...

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) I wish that you loved me The way that I love you I wish I had Angels Who sang in my dreams If wishes were changes We'd all live...

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 W...

by Nanci Griffith, James Hooker When I wake in the night And find that I'm dreaming You're the first thought in mind Love's a fair-weather friend when you're lo...

(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 h...

(Nanci Griffith) The telephone is ringin' in the middle of the night I pull the bed clothes higher Will it stop calling out if I turn out the light? I'm afraid...

(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 intri...

He was a simple man only to a stranger And the kindness in his eyes I still remember Now that he is old, They say he's angry and he's cold, That his soul is dyi...

An urban light hit's a bartender's smile 'Cause it's closin' time again Last call rang out such a long time ago In the heart of Julie Anne Now she waits inside ...

Oh, he said it was the sound of the winter callin' from up around the bend Or it could be the cry of your restless heart for the love of your long lost friends ...

(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 ...

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 stumble...

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 leavin...

(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 th...

(By Paul Kennerly) 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 [Chorus:] Let it shine on m...

(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 th...

by Nanci Griffith, James Hooker When I wake in the night And find that I'm dreaming You're the first thought in mind Love's a fair-weather friend when you're lo...

(By Fred Koller, Patrick Alger & Gene Levine) Your phone call took my by surprise Gee, it's been a long, long time Since those hot and humid Texas nights When ...

Well, I work this corner from eleven to five The hands get cold around midnight You're askin' me if I've got the time well I don't know But you're wastin' mine ...

(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...

She's a brown skin girl from El Paso City He's a sweet tempered soldier from Fort Bliss They ran off one July evening All concerned said this one is anyone's gu...

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...

Take this heart of mine out the winter And let the new life of Springtime come rest at our door May the soul of my brother never bow to the wicked And the heart...

by 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 ...

My friends think I'm crazy and maybe it's true 'cuz I'll go on and love you this way Though I have discovered that you love another And hardly remember my name ...