Тексты песен «Nanci Griffith»

Now, I work this corner from eleven to five And the hands get cold around midnight And you askin' me if I've got the time Well, I don't know but you're wastin' mine tonight Whoa, you say you're looking for the time...

Well, I work this corner from eleven to five The hands get cold around midnight You're askin' me if I've got the time... well I don't know But you're wastin' mine tonight [Chorus:] Whoa... you say you're looking for...

Any given day, there's a jet flying somewhere Oh, we bought a ticket and vanished in the sky And how was I to know he was leaving in the morning I never heard him go and then he never said goodbye And I've learned to...

Rita was sixteen years, hazel eyes and chestnut hair She made the Woolworth counter shine And Eddie was a sweet romancer and a darn good dancer And they'd waltz the aisles of the five and dime And they'd sing "Dance a...

Rita was sixteen years, hazel eyes and chestnut hair She made the Woolworth counter shine And Eddie was a sweet romancer and a darn good dancer And they'd waltz the aisles of the five and dime And they'd sing "Dance a...

She's a brown skin girl from El Paso City He's a sweet tempered soldier from Fort Bliss They ran off one July evening All concerned said this one is anyone's guess Love conquers all Love conquers all And to all...

She sleeps alone in the warm nights of Memphis Where the Peabody Hotel meets the velveteen sky She sings like the waves in the cool Mississippi That brought her from St. Paul in '75 And men come to court her with roses...

Take this heart of mine out the winter And let the new life of Springtime come rest at our door May the soul of my brother never bow to the wicked And the hearts of our children waltz together once more Love is a Hard...

He owned a hotel on Jersey shore She made her living seeing the sailors door to door He was a small Hawaiian with a crooked smile But he made her eyes light up like the heavens on the 4th of July She ran the numbers,...

My friends think I'm crazy and maybe it's true 'Cause I'll go on and love you this way Though I have discovered that you love another And hardly remember my name My youth was so crazy my heart was so lazy Love never...

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 her prime and lived on DiMaggio time So farewell you old...

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 waitin' for my Omie to take me outta this south It...

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 winter wine So sweet upon my tongue tonight It recalls your...

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 the friends I'll leave behind Mostly 'bout the man who writes his songs...

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 enough frost left to write our names upon the pane? Are you sleeping now?...

(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 it's gone And if he can still carry the load Now, the...

Oh, I wish that you would call We have not spoken since last fall And that smoky conversation's Coming home Do I just read between your lines? Yeah, could be this winter wine So sweet upon my tongue tonight Recalls...

(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 thoughts of you pass 'fore my face a thousand times The way...

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 that's not a bad price for a one way ride On a morning train...

Easy come, easy go Anything but easya'athough 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 Mountain of sorrowa'asteep What you see, the new me...