Тексты песен «Caroline Herring»


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Caroline Herring - A Little Bit Of Mercy

Time goes by so quickly now On this freight train line Through my hometown There are days I wait for night to come When I fall asleep just to wake again Oh to walk beside an honorable man Honey, sometimes I just...

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Caroline Herring - A Turn Upon The Hill

A turn upon the hill As the sun reclines I lie upon the grass And your eyes meet mine Then I run as fast As my legs will carry me From a camera's lens And a stranger's plea Can you see inside my soul Can you...

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Caroline Herring - Abuelita

I should have known why I loved Driving through the cactus fields Or wearing white leather gloves Admiring the virgin As she stands upon the moon Waltzing behind a second line Or harmonizing on gospel tunes...

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Caroline Herring - All The Pretty Little Horses

Hush-a-bye, don't you cry Go to sleep my little baby When you wake, you shall see Coach and six-a-little horses Blacks and bays, dapples and grays All the pretty little horses Hush-a-bye, don't you cry Go to...

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Caroline Herring - Cactus Tree

There's a man who's been out sailing In a decade full of dreams And he takes her to a schooner And he treats her like a queen Bearing beads from California With their amber stones and green He has called her from...

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Caroline Herring - Fair And Tender Ladies

You write about a place so dear In all it's good and evil A loving cup, an aching scar You need no thread and needle To sew your name into your clothes Or hem a ragged line All muscular and luminous Oh heroine of...

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Caroline Herring - Heartbreak Tonight

Different and good Easy to please A cheerleader's skirt on the backseat A childhood worth forgetting Her twenties damn depressing She eyes another age She turns another page You change your name You don't stay...

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Caroline Herring - Lay My Burden Down

When I lay my burden down There'll be no mourners outside my window Put my body in the ground Because my spirit will be free at last And I'll be flying in the darkness I'll ride the wind without a sound When I lay...

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Caroline Herring - Long Black Veil

Ten years ago, on a cold dark night, Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light. There were few at the scene, but they all agreed That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me. CHORUS: She walks these hills in...

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Caroline Herring - Lover Girl

Looking for a hand to hold There to pull and push against Even now we're dancing Longing for a place to know Where branches reach, lantana grow And butterflies take their poses Come My lover girl Did you grow...

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Caroline Herring - Midnight On The Water

I never thought much of that fancy dancin, With my two left feet and my rovin eye. But when the band plays so well in that 3/4 time, I could dance with my darlin until mornin' comes. Play me a fiddle tune, sing me...

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Caroline Herring - Mississippi Snow

A little girl A lust, a life Hoping one day to be some mans wife Early school mornings Cold bathroom floor You brushed my hair And pushed me out the door Oh, mama, you know I had to go Before they up and covered me in...

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Caroline Herring - Paper Gown

Small town stars shine bright for a day The moon lights up a watery grave Woods move in the nighttime breeze That lifts from the lake through the trees On the night that defined my name Fantasy or monster, you say...

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Caroline Herring - See See Rider

Well See, See See Rider Just see what you have a-done Yeah, yeah yeah yeah See See Rider See what you have a-done Wo-wo yeah Well you made me love you And now your girl has a-come What'd I say Well, I'm gonna...

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Caroline Herring - Song For Fay

Sun comes up in the morning See that sunrise forming All the pretty colors Shining down on the water I don't know about heaven But I put in my dollar Let's see what it buys me Rest and a little dinner Walking...

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Caroline Herring - Song Of The Wandering Aengus

I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread; And when white moths were on the wing, And moth-like stars were flickering out,...

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Caroline Herring - States Of Grace

Shall we walk the narrow way Crooked straight, rough places plain Raised up in the yin and yang Takes her around and back again She's got her act down A shadow of a sound Her show's on the road 'Cause she knows...

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Caroline Herring - Stone Cold World

I'm a selfish girl In a selfish world Each town has her selfish ways And each girl has her selfish days Especially me Longing to be free From all the old complaining crew And all the new ones moaning, too Then...

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Caroline Herring - Tales Of The Islander

Tales of the islander Tales of you and me Floating on our raft Down the Mother Mississippi Caught myself a fever Took a hospital stay Tied some sheets together Crawled down and was on my way I was on my way...

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Caroline Herring - The Dozens

I had a few more questions I never knew to ask You were feeling downhearted The last time we parted With a shock of white hair Life has changed a lot you know And I'm kind of scared of that It bottoms out in...