Тексты песен «Nanci Griffith»

(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 fountain pen Is he comin' in for the holidays to haunt me...

This life is filled with wonder This life is full of days not spent I cannot help but ponder Just what relevance that lends But everything is comin' up roses And I'm pushin' up daisies They'll want roses anyway Oh and...

(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 the cities and the towns Until I stood beside the road And...

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 that you've been out... just lookin' around this town I...

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 five restless children She was singing sweet as a...

I look out on these shields of heather 'Cross this countryside I wonder how they've grown together While people live such separate lives Think I'll stay inside for the winter 'Cause the weather's in my bones And the...

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 been so long between the pages Wheels out on the highway...

(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 takes to flight From a distance there is harmony And it...

(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 here It's a long way from Clare to here It's a long, long...

(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 Who won't be rollin' home The dragon weeps with empty...

(Nanci Griffith - Adam Duritz - Brian Claflin) Oh the city snow makes our 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...

(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 heart will never be the same He got lighter than air But...

There's a lighthouse in the harbor Giving guidance with its light But I had no one to return to As I wandered through the night From the first time that I saw you Standing silent by the shore I knew my search was over...

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...

(Nanci Griffith - Adam Duritz - Brian Claflin) Oh the city snow makes our 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...

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 Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons Here in the free...

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...

(James Hooker - Nanci Griffith - Danny Flowers) Gulf Coast Highway He worked the rails He worked the rice fields With their cool dark wells He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico The only thing we've ever owned...

(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 forever in our ears; Oh, hard times come again no more Chorus...