Тексты песен «Nanci Griffith»


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Nanci Griffith - Still Life

You walked the line all your life You never thought you'd have to change it You're always there to give advice You never thought you'd have to take it It's still life but it's broken It's still life when it's torn It's...

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Nanci Griffith - Storms

(By Eric Taylor) As quiet as a street lamp This is some kinda town Whiskey go easy When the sun goes down My best to the midnight... God, look at the moon There's enough for two shadows There's only one in the room...

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Nanci Griffith - Summer Wages

(Ian Tyson) Never hit seventeen When you play against the dealer You know that the odds Won't ride with you And never leave your woman alone With your friends around to steal her She'll be gambled and gone Like summer...

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Nanci Griffith - Sweet Dreams Will Come

(John Stewart) I'm sleepin' less in L.A. Dreamin' of days yet to come Oh, and I don't care what you say I know that those days will surely come I'm wakin' and I'm callin' I'm shakin' and I'm fallin' Oh, little darlin'...

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Nanci Griffith - Talk To Me While I'm Listening

I should have known that you were gone back in Germany You told me in the dark while I was sleeping Then you slept through the sunrise As it washed upon your face And all that I had heard were our hearts beating Talk to...

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Nanci Griffith - Tecumseh Valley

(Townes Van Zandt) The name she gave was Caroline Daughter of a miner And her ways were free It seemed to me The sunshine walked beside her She came from Spencer Across the hill She said her Pa had sent her...

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Nanci Griffith - Tell Me How

(Charles Hardin - J. I. Allison) Tell me how to keep your love You know how I need your love Tell me how you keep the love Within your heart from me Don't you know that I love you Let me show why I'm true blue When I...

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Nanci Griffith - Ten Degrees And Getting Colder

(Gordon Lightfoot) He was standing by the highway With a sign that just said Mother When he heard a driver coming About a half a mile away So he held the sign up higher Where no decent soul could miss it It was ten...

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Nanci Griffith - Tequila After Midnight

Tequila after midnight drives loneliness away Makes strangers all around you look familiar And tequila after midnight makes you feel so warm Makes you think you feel good when you don't It's the same sad familiar story...

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Nanci Griffith - The Flyer

He was a flyer for the air force In a plane from San Antonio I was traveling to London He was going off to buffalo Changing planes in Pittsburgh We got grounded in a storm I would give anything To be on that flyer's...

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Nanci Griffith - The Ghost Inside Of Me

(John Stewart) Every prayer that I'm not praying and every promise I'm betraying Every price that I am paying, is like a ghost inside of me Every road I could be taking, every dream I am forsaking Every heart that's...

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Nanci Griffith - The Last Of The True Believers

Oh, he said it was the sound of the winter callin' From up around the bend or it could be The cry of your restless heart For the love of your long lost friends Oh, but me I think it's just the summertime And the heat...

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Nanci Griffith - The Power Lines

Nobody seems to care about you With your tool case by the roadside There beneath the power lines Or the pallor of your skin Paled beneath fluorescent lights In a Greyhound station's cruel midnight Where you can't afford...

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Nanci Griffith - The Streets Of Baltimore

(Harlan Howard - Tompall Glaser) I sold the farm to take me woman Where she longed to be We left our kin and all our friends Back there in Tennessee I bought the one way tickets She had often begged me for And they...

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Nanci Griffith - The Sun, Moon, And Stars

(Vince Bell) The sun, the moon and the stars They make the wind blow It took me twenty years to understand Lost to me are how the lives of friends go Like autumn leaves in Oklahoma wind But it made me strong to be on...

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Nanci Griffith - The Wing And The Wheel

The wing and the wheel they carry things away Whether it's me that does the leavin' or the love that flies away The moon outside my window looks so lonely tonight Oh, there's a chunk out of it's middle big enough for an...

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Nanci Griffith - There's A Light Beyond These Woods

There's a light beyond these woods, Mary Margaret Do you think that we will go there And see what makes it shine, Mary Margaret? It's almost morning and we've talked all night You know we've made big plans for ten-year...

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Nanci Griffith - There's A Light Beyond These Woods (Mary Margaret)

There's a light beyond these woods, Mary Margaret. Do you think that we will go there, And see what makes it shine, Mary Margaret? It's almost morning, and we've talked all night, You know we've made big plans for...

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Nanci Griffith - These Days In An Open Book

Shut it down and call this road a day And put this silence in my heart in a better place I have traveled with your ghost now so many years That I see you in the shadows In hotel rooms and headlights You're coming up...

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Nanci Griffith - Things I Don't Need

This house is full of memories that aren't mine Pieces, I thought I would clear out over time Life takes over, I get ahead of myself I turn around and I've filled up the shelf With things I don't need that weigh me...