Sun will stop shinin' and hearts will stop poundin' The screen is so lonely tonight The men are out prayin' and the women are sayin' She died for the loss of he...

My daddy was a longshoreman in New Orleans, My mamma kept score just watchin' the Mardi Gras Oh me, I sat on the front porch watchin' the rails roll out, I was ...

Griffith/Howard I will find somebody new Maybe tomorrow I will stop this missing you Maybe tomorrow Time's the healer time's the key So all the wise folks say ...

(Nanci Griffith) There's a light out on the freeway,says it's time to go I'm wasting my time counting stains on a barroom floor Thinking 'bout my hometown and ...

(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? Is there...

(By Bruce Carlson) In an old pickup truck, with his hat pulled down He drives them old Montana backroads Remembering half-forgotten times, and wondering where ...

Oh, I wish that you would call We have not spoken since last fall That smoky conversation's coming home Do I just read between your lines Yeah it could be this ...

(Jerry Jeff Walker) 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 th...

Elkins/Field There's a morning train That's headed for New Orleans Carrying business men and week day shoppers I have sixteen bucks and a dollar in change And t...

Easy come, easy go Anything but easy"¦though You were here, now you're gone That's the only thing I know And it's just one more sorrow To throw upon the heap M...

You'll never be the sun turning in the sky And you won't be the moon above us On a moonlit night And you won't be the stars in heaven Although they burn so brig...

by Harlan Howard You say 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 Bu...

(By Mac McAnally & Don Lowery) A little girl dreamer Ribbons and long curls Reflections of yesterdays past Headlines and footlights Wee hours and long nights K...

(Michael Burton) 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...

Something's disturbed me I'm out of your company I'm out of the country With another man's heart I'm angered and doubtful And I'd shout an earful But nothing co...

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 tow...

I'm gonna open up the window and let in October And roll up my sleeves in the rain Roll out on the freeway with a heart a little harder Breezes gettin' cooler ...

Where are all the Satchel Boys Selling books outside the Metripole? Books to read in English Books of light and sorrows Of this foreign land They are gone They'...

On Grafton Street at Christmas time The elbows push you 'round This is not my place of memories I'm a stranger in this town The faces seem familiar And I know t...

Once in a Very Blue Moon By Patrick Alger (Recorded by Nanci Griffith and once by Dolly Parton) I found your letter in my mailbox today You were just checking ...

(Nanci Griffith) You honk the horn on your Mercedes Benz I've rolled up my windows so you're honkin' again Your stereo could drive the devil out Hey, you drink...

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 t...

(Nanci Griffith - Keith Carradine) We don't live on easy street, but it's home Looking out on the open road, where you'll go it alone To the last of our simple...

by Nanci Griffith, Tom Russell Don't want to be standing here With this ticket for this outbound plane Cause I've been here before And somehow this doesn't feel...

(Nanci Griffith - Maura Kennedy) Oh she was high up there in the air Caught still by a soldier's stare Whenever it was men amongst men Down upon the land And s...

The evening fell just like a star Left a trail behind You spit as you slammed out the door If this is love we're crazy As we fight like cats and dogs I just kno...

Goodbye gray sky I see my heart comin' round the bend The sun's comin' up on the Poet In My Window Her saving grace is my old friend I'll never lose if my hear...

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) 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 ...

(with Mac MacAnnaly) 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 st...

(Nanci Griffith) He still sends her roses on the 4th of July They're always white roses and she never asks why She still doesn't know where he goes Thursday ni...

(By Bill Staines) Oh, the night was clear and the stars were shinin' And the moon came up, so quiet in the sky And all the people gathered round while the band...

He will leave behind all of his clothes He wore when he was with her All he need's are his railroad boots And his leather jacket As he say goodbye to Ruby's arm...

Griffith/Graham/Griffith Saint Teresa, your patron child's come home Were you there to greet her? Did your angels know her songs? And all of her sorrows Did you...

(Tom Waits) Never saw the morning till I stayed up all night Never saw the sunshine till I turned out the light Never saw my hometown till I stayed away too lo...

When you say I love you Is it just because you know that's what I want to hear? Lately friends are warning me What they hesitate to tell me leaves a thread of f...

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) Snowing - through Dakota I once drove With the wife of my best pal Who cloaks her heart from cold with gold It was well into th...

Clark She was standin' on the gone side of leavin' She found her thumb and stuck it in the breeze She'll take anything that's goin' close to somewhere She can l...

(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 ...

(By Robert Earl Keen, Jr) Summer Sunday evening, around the old home place Well, I would play my guitar and sister sang along Sister's smile would always light...

by 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, ...

(Nanci Griffith) Well, it's that old time story of a new face to glory, Someone wanted my soul for their pride What about the system of fools arranged for miss...

(originally by Julie Gold) I'm sitting on a southbound train Staring at the sky I'm thinking of my childhood And I'm trying not to cry While a stranger sleeps ...

You come home late And you come home early You come home big When you're feelin' small You come home straight And you come home curly Sometimes you don't come ...

I could use a little spin on a red brick floor In that crazy ol' bar when Tim locks the door Where the walls are gonna ring and the strings are gonna bend And i...

(By Tom Russell) Drinking black market vodka in the back of the Scottsman's saloon Then it's red meat and whiskey like a coyote drunk on the moon Outside in Os...

(By Eric Taylor) As quiet as a street lamp This is some kinda town Whiskey go easy When the sun goes down My best to the midnight God, look at the moon There's...

(Ian Tyson) 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 ...

by John Stewart I was sleeping, listen Ellie, Dreaming of days yet come I don't care what you say I know that those days are sure to come And I'm waking and ...

I should have known that you were gone back in Germany You told me in the dark while I was sleeping Then you slept through the sunrise As it washed upon your fa...

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 Sh...

(Charles Hardin - J I Allison) 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 k...

(Gordon Lightfoot) He was standing by the highway With a sign that just said Mother When he heard a driver coming About a half a mile away So he held the sign ...

He was a flyer for the Air Force On a plane from San Antonio I was travelling to London He was going off to Buffalo Changing planes in Pittsburgh We got grounde...

(John Stewart) Every prayer that I'm not praying and every promise I'm betraying Every price that I am paying, is like a ghost inside of me Every road I could ...

(Nanci Griffith - Pat Alger - James Hooker) Nobody seems to care about you With your tool case by the roadside There beneath the power lines Or the pallor of y...

(Harlan Howard - Tompall Glaser) 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 t...

(Vince Bell) The sun, the moon and the stars They make the wind blow It took me twenty years to understand Lost to me are how the lives of friends go Like autu...

The wing and the wheel they carry things away Whether it's me that does the leavin' or the love that flies away The moon outside my window looks so lonely tonig...

There's a light beyond these woods, Mary Margaret Do you think that we will go there, And see what makes it shine, Mary Margaret? It's almost morning, and we've...

Shut it down and call 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 th...

This heart was almost taken This heart had a love of its own This heart was reawakened When you came along This heart was born feet runnin' This heart saw your ...

(Janis Ian - Jon Vezner) This old town should've burned down in 1929 That's when we stood in line Waiting for our soup Swallowing our pride This old town shoul...

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 Other...

Oh the grace that true love holds when hearts grow weary for Time alone You give it room and the warm to hold and it'll always come home True love is faithful ...

We're living in a time of inconvenience Compassion fails me with this meanness in the air Our city streets are filled with violence So we close our doors to the...

(By Jimmie Gilmore & John Reed) Tonight I think I'm gonna go downtown Tonight I think I'm gonna look around For something that I couldn't see When this world w...

(Nanci Griffith) Nothing that I've ever seen Now means much of anything In traveling through this part of you And the Vietnam that I had dreamed The place you ...

(By Nanci Griffith & Rick West) 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...

I worked hard for that rose You may have it when you go 'Cause it's the dreaming it lends Worth holding here And when the outbound lane brings me trouble again ...

(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 th...

(Pat McLaughlin) 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 off...

(Malvina Reynolds - Harry Belafonte - Allen Greene) Where are you goin' my little one, little one? Where are you goin' my baby my own? Turn around and you're t...

Nanci Griffith Out of the blue horizon Stretched a band of gold From the straits of Juan de Fuca To the east of Portland, Maine You held my hand As we raced alo...

Griffith Life is full of finer things they're lost and found in the dark It's the dog by the highway Who said, "Goin' my way?" Now, he lives in your own Backyar...

(Sonny Curtis) 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 t...

(Richard Thompson) 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...

She's just a hill country girl home from the city Her pocket's full of plenty of those neon lights And her mother's smile shines on her youngest child Though sh...

(Traditional) Chorus 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 k...

(Nanci Griffith) Wash away the tears, all the angry times we shared, All the feelings and the sorrows come and gone, We have left them slip away, because I'm s...

What is that sound ringing in my ears I've heard that sound before What's that I hear ringing in my ears I hear it more and more It's the sound of freedom calli...

He took a plane to New York City To chase his fortune on the Wall Street plan Now he is stranded in Manhattan Yet the Southeast Texas coast still calls his name...

I could have a mansion that is higher than the trees I could have all the gifts I want and never ask please I could fly to Paris, oh, it's at my beck and call W...

Where Have you Been By Kathy Mattea Clare had all but given up When she and Edwin fell in love She touched his face, and shook her head In disbelief, she sighed...

(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 ...

I'm headed out on that highway Listenin' to them big trucks whine I'm headed out on that highway Listenin' to them big trucks whine White Freight Liner Won't yo...

(Sandy Denny) 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...

chorus- On the wings of a snow white dove He sends his pure sweet love A sign from abouve- a sign from above On the wings of a dove When trouble surrounds us W...

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 gon...

It's a southern road west of New Orleans I'm fightin' off a cold From these winter rounds Houston She's just around the corner But I think I'll stop off here in...

Dreaming of autumn flowers Waiting for the day When I'll get to use their powers To take me away So hard to smile when they frown and put us down In my hour of ...

Dreaming of autumn flowers Waiting for the day When I'll get to use their powers To take me away So hard to smile when they frown and put us down In my hour of ...

(Mickie Merkens) 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...

I truly need a year down in New Orleans, The hum of a southern drawl that I could understand And should you meet my sweetheart in New Orleans Kindly pass my hea...

So much silence to my hometown streets Gonna put my cheek to the window and watch it sleep Where the shadow's fall from sycamore trees Fight off this north wind...

(Nanci Griffith) What've you got to say for yourself, now baby Now that I am leaving you What have you got to lose? The truth you tried to keep from me Well, i...

(Sylvia Fricker) When I got up this morning You were on my mind You were on my mind I got some aches and I got some pains and I got some wounds to bind So I ...