Тексты песен «Griffith Nanci»

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 me still Hey, you always will In the corridor of one...

by Nanci Griffith You can cuss the daylights out of this pale winter moon And we can ponder every reason why your true love was untrue You can cry your eyes out, I've got a shoulder here for you And every day your...

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 limb You brought me home... Sent me back again ...Out on that limb one...

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 ocean Just to...

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 my mother Walking hand in hand (chorus) And she was...

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 dream and in reality Is we weren't afraid to fail in love and we...

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 easier Life will be a breeze, you know I really should be...

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 and bars are closed The Christmas lights are veiled in snow Tell me, where are...

I can't be your weather 'cause' if it rains then it rains I can't be your lover 'cause' the feelings would change I can't be the wind 'cause' the wind blows too free But if you want a true companion Don't forget about...

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 fountain pen Is he coming in for the holidays to haunt me again I call up the...

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 inside for the winter 'cause' the weather's in my bones And the...

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 coming around from years of hard times He's chased me down...

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 this house out in the hills All by my own will I've got love...

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 inside And the grapefruit moon One star shining Can't turn...

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 rigs in the Gulf of Mexico The only thing we've owned is...

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 the law won I fought the law and the law won Chorus: Left my...

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 love when it was more than just a word And I knew a time...

(with Jimmy Buffett) I love this towna like an unmade bed I love this towna of the living dead I love this towna gonna paint it red If I can spare a minute I love this towna where curtains twitch Where this door...

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 diamonds When the diamonds fall they burn like...

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 never hurts as much as being left behind Chorus: I...