Тексты песен «Nanci Griffith»

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 door with their heads to their chests They told lies about whiskey on a woman's...

{937 Pre-war Kimball 1, 2, 3, gone} Oh, it sat in this corner for many a year Through fireside parties, tears and cheers And the hands of James Hooker flew over it's keys And God know who else 'fore it came to me And...

I've heard enough from pundits, I've heard our leaders speak I tell you now I'd rather talk to the people in the streets 'Cause you don't know someone until you've looked them in the eye And that gave me a purpose and...

(Kate Wolf) 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 siftin' through the layers Of dusty books and...

(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-talking baby Calmed the heart of a lonely lady You kept me...

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 Hey, you always stood me still And hey, you always will In the corridor of one hotel We...

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 lifted up by Angels You understand, and you never say How every...

You can cuss the daylights Outta this pale winter moon We could ponder every reason Why your true love was untrue You can cry your eyes out I've got a shoulder here for you And everyday your broken heart Is gonna turn...

Let me say this one more time Just in case you didn't hear it right Put it in my own words So I know it's understood You sent me out on a limb You brought me home sent me back again Out on that limb one too many times...

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

(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 Walk upon the moon Young girl in Calcutta Barely...

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...

(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' daredevil show, In Merry England, oh,... twenty seven years old He...

Well I'm goin' back where my garden blooms all year Where the wintertime speaks softly in the fallin' rain And I'm goin' back to my green eyed lover there We will dance along the banks of old Lake Pontchartrain As I've...

(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 through the rubble, I'm dazed and seein' double And I'm...

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 and a good night's sleep And all I have is the cry of the...

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 And she was beautiful and...

I dreamed of Louisiana And a night in Lafayette We had breakfast with Susanna We were young and wild and left What's different here Than in that dream and in reality Is we weren't afraid to fail in love And we all...

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 it's own Spinning history in lines of blood When many souls fell off And we all ride...

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...