If Wishes Were Changes (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I wish that you loved me The way that I love you I wish I had Angels Who sang in my dreams If wishes were changes We'd all live in roses And there wouldn't be children Who cried in their sleep He wishes

Nickel Dreams (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

moving so fast It's taken a long time And she's walked a fine line For fortune and fame have arrived She kept on striving And half-way surviving Till part of those dreams came alive [Chorus:] Now she wishes

Radio Fragile (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

We all said you'd never make it Cause you had that fragile heart And you were odd within the ways of the social You through a caution to us all And now when the late night drinkers gather for their falls

Heaven (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

talk about me I pray it won't be lies I think I'll go to heaven Heaven is in your eyes I think I'll go to Heaven I heard it's peaceful there They don't allow your troubles Everyone's had their share And if

I Knew Love (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

meant forever When a feeling shared didn't always have to hurt And a promise that was made would go unbroken I knew love When it was more than just a word I knew a time When hope was all you needed And if

Outbound Plane (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

talk all night long And we may never figure out just Where your love went wrong [Chorus:] 'Cause I don't wanna be standin' here Don't wanna be talkin' here And I don't really care who's to blame 'Cause if

Wooden Heart (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Can't you see I love you Please don't break my heart in two That's not hard to do 'Cause I don't have a wooden heart And if you say goodbye Then I know that I would cry Maybe I would die 'Cause

So Long Ago (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

So long ago You'd gone off to fight the war when I returned from school And I traded in my innocence when the springtime came in bloom And I married for my family; one night I dreamed of you And you were

Down 'N' Outer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I once was a lot like you We share a dream I couldn't make come true I was a child who wrote my name Across a frosted window pane And there are jobs that I might hold If they'd just let me through the

Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

crystal voice She played a Silverstone from Montgomery Ward Baez songs and Monroe hair She sure could turn the boys heads to stare Swimwear saunter, tan and haunt them Was all she learned in school Books were

Love In A Memory (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

never grows old Why she did leave him, well nobody knows Love in a memory never grows old Now he works the toll booth on the New Jersey Turnpike The ring on his finger grows cold to the bone His sons were

Leaving The Harbor (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

If you turn the light out in the hallway Will your shadow lose its way? Or do we share these shadows in the darkness And they move from place to place?

Late Night Grande Hotel (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

say you hear my heart when the music ends I am just learning how to fly away again It's not the way you say you hear my heart when the music ends I am just learning how to fly away again And maybe you were

Beacon Street (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Gonna wake up crazy to the cry of the trains on Beacon StreetSo far from home, so far from love, so far from a friend in needAnd all I need is a heart to hold and a good night's sleepAnd all I have...

Ford Econoline (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

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.And she was si...

Never Mind (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You say you're heading out toCaliforniaYou've heard the grapes are fallingFrom the vineI was hoping you might have theUrge to write meBut, I don't believe you willSo never mindI was talking to a ma...

Hometown Streets (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Everybody packs their goalsAnd sails away for better shoresI have seen timesMy sails have held a brilliant shineI hear tell that dreams come trueAlong these crowded avenuesBut, my peace of mindIs a...

Trouble In The Fields (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

ticket out and talking the great depression Our parents had their hard times fifty years ago When they stood out in these empty fields in dust as deep as snow [Chorus:] And all this trouble in our fields If

Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War) (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

hands keep a ledger even in her sleeves While he worked the See-Bees in the Philippines They say she made more money than you and I will ever see [Chorus:] Cause love was a magnet on the Jersey shore If

Money Changes Everything Nanci Griffith

of a cloud In a crazy storm that pulls you on Take a pill or you might take a loss And the vicious circle tightens But compromise comes with a cost Maybe you can't see but it's clear to me Money changes

There's A Light Beyond These Woods (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

But you were home in time for the senior prom, When we lost John. The fantasies we plan, I'm living them now. All the dreams we sang when we knew how, Well, they haven't changed.

It's Just Another Morning Here (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

The telephone is ringin' in the middle of the night And I pull the bed clothes higher Will it stop calling out if I turn on the light?

I Would Change My Life (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

all along So, you packed up your things and bought a one-way ticket home Leaving never hurt as much as being left behind [Chorus:] I would change my life I would make it right I would change my life If

Tumble And Fall (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Your late night conversationTelephone call and an inspirationFor a heart to recall, had a tumble and fallAnd my friends all say I'm lazyClumsy at love and I'm middle age crazyI stumble along with a...

Little Love Affairs (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

When I wake in the night and findThat I'm dreamingYou're the first thought in mindLove's a fair weather friend whenYou're lonelyYou are my summer state of mindDoes it sing to you nightly?Does it la...

It's Too Late (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You pace the pool and talk about itI read my book and think about itYou've walked on waterAs I'm turning the pageYou say, What's the intrigue here,In reading when the sky is clear?You are in the su...

Fields Of Summer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I am fragile in the morningI grow stronger in the dayI can sprint like a new spring doeBy the fall of the nightLove has chased me downThrough the cities and the townsUntil I stood beside the roadAn...

The Power Lines (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Nobody seems to care about youWith your tool case by the roadsideThere beneath the power linesOr the pallor of your skinPaled beneath fluorescent lightsIn a Greyhound station's cruel midnightWhere ...

San Diego Serenade (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I never saw the morning 'til I stayed up all nightI never saw the sunshine 'til you turned out the lightI never saw my hometown 'til I'd stayed away too longI never heard the melody until I needed ...

Sing One For Sister (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Summer Sunday evening, around the old home placeWell, I would play my guitar and sister sang alongSister's smile would always light up my Daddy's faceAnd when they'd get to dancing, well they'd dan...

Listen To The Radio (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

I am leaving Mississippi in the evening rainThese Delta towns wear satin gownsIn a high beamed frameLoretta Lynn guides my hands through the radioWhere would I be in times like theseWithout the son...

It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

[Chorus:] It's a hard life It's a hard life It's a very hard life It's a hard life wherever you go If we poison our children with hatred Then, the hard life is all that they'll know And there ain't

Let It Shine On Me (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

There's a star in Heaven's skyAlways shining brightIt's just a tear in an Angel's eyeA gentle guiding lightLet it shine on meLet it show the wayLet it always beLet it always stayLet it flood my sou...

Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You can cuss the daylights out of this pale winter moonAnd we can ponder every reason why your true love was untrueYou can cry your eyes out, I've got a shoulder here for youAnd every day your brok...

I Wish It Would Rain (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Oh I wish it would rain and wash my face cleanI want to find some dark cloud to hide in hereOh love and a memory sparkle like diamondsWhen the diamonds fall they burn like tearsWhen the diamonds fa...

Brave Companion Of The Road (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

Where are you going there?With your suitcase by the back porch stairsWith my heart in your handIn this cold December wind againThe cafes and bars are closedThe Christmas lights are veiled in snowTe...

You Made This Love A Teardrop (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

What've you got to say for yourself now, baby, now that I am leaving you, What have you got to lose?The truth you tried to keep from me, Well, it nearly drove me crazy, And I have grown weary from ...

One Blade Shy Of A Sharp Edge (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

You honk the horn on your Mercedes BenzI've rolled up my window so you're honkin' againYour stereo could drive the devil outHey, you drink too much and you talk too loudBut you think you got it mad...

Wouldn't That Be Fine Nanci Griffith

If you could stand behind my eyes for just one day Could you see my heart beside you?

Three Flights Up Nanci Griffith

We returned to that five room flat Now it was empty and this the last time Ther were blinking pictures Of how we'd sit and chat Some of them are scattered Others shattered in my mind Chorus: It was always

Beautiful Nanci Griffith

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

You Were On My Mind Nanci Griffith

When I got up this morning You were on my mind You were on my mind I got some aches and I got some pains and I got some wounds to bind So I went to the corner Just to ease my pain Just to ease my pain

The Loving Kind Nanci Griffith

They were the loving kind She was black and he was white In Virginia, nineteen fifty eight They found love amongst the hate Well, the law said they could not wed They married anyway The sheriff put

Traveling Through This Part Of You Nanci Griffith

(Nanci Griffith) Nothing that I've ever seen Now means much of anything In traveling through this part of you And the Vietnam that I had dreamed The place you wore your life "fatigued" I'm traveling through

Tecumseh Valley Nanci Griffith

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 to Spencer Across the hill She said he Pa had sent her 'Cause the coal

Canadian Whiskey Nanci Griffith

rangers are prowlin` For a woman alone She`d run away from an Indian lover He`ll never recover She turned him to stone She drank Canadian whiskey Pure blended whiskey She drank it like wine Her eyes were

Before Nanci Griffith

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

Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Nanci Griffith

had me a buddy back home But he started out to roam And I hear he`s out by Frisco Bay And, sometimes, when I`ve had a few His old voice comes ringin` through And I`m goin` out to see him some old day If

Horseless (Album Version) Rubyhorse

If wishes were horses If wishes were horses Horseless I'd be I am more than a smile There's more than that to me And I don't know what I'll find Or like what I'll see I can't remember I can't explain Can't

Back When Ted Loved Sylvia Nanci Griffith

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 bid her heart goodbye The hawk next to his goddess They were