Iris DeMent

What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.
Lean...

There's a wall in Washington
and it's made of cold black granite
They say 60,000 names are etched there in it
in that wall in Washington
A father, he ...

Living in the wasteland of the free...
We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines
They say they are Christ's disciples
but they don't look...

We both know the reason why you've called
I know you wanna sweeten up the taste
but if you don't mind, I'll just take my sorrow straight
You almost ma...

A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night
An Autumn leaf was scraping against my window
like it was trying hard to get ins...

I wrote my mother yesterday 'cause I had some things that I had to say
And I know that when she reads them she's gonna cry
That I'm just trying to bre...

It was a long time ago, I was a girl 'bout 12 years old
on my back staring up into the dark summer sky
when I said, "God, tomorrow I can't see
but I'l...

She's got a phone in one hand, a hairbrush in the other
and she says, "Life's too short to stay home and be a mother"
She says she can have it all 'ca...

I'm walkin' home tonight
The streets are glowing 'neath the pale moonlight
I look around, there's not a soul in sight
and I'm walkin' home
Once again ...

I went to church on Sunday, I swung my chariot low
Reached up to kiss the deacon, he said "You'd better go"
Trouble, I'm in trouble with him
Trouble's...

Everybody's wondering what and where they all came from
Everybody's worrying 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done
But no one knows...

Far away I've traveled
To stand once more alone
And hear my memories echo
Through these hills that I call home
As a child, I roamed this valley
I watc...

Well, I've heard 'em say there's one for everybody
And I just knew, somehow, that you'd be the one for me
'Cause making love with you's not just a hob...

Look at you, look at me
My heart breaks as I read our sad story
Never thought that I'd be
Here with you, wishing I was free
I never dreamed today woul...

And you know the sun's setting fast
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts
Go on now and kiss it goodbye
But hold on to your lover 'cause you...

I turned my eyes up to the sky and I prayed, "please help me, Lord
You know I've sowed my wild oats, and now the fun's all gone"
And then I heard thes...

Sweet forgiveness, that's what you give me
When you hold me close, and you say, "that's all over"
You don't go looking back
You don't hold the cards t...

There'll be laughter even after you're gone
I'll find reasons to face that empty dawn
'Cause I've memorized each line in your face
And not even death ...

She grew up plain and simple in a farming town
Her daddy played the fiddle and used to do the calling when they had hoe-downs
She says the neighbors w...

Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by
It’s so hard to make every note bend just right
You lay down the hours and leave not one trace
but a tune for ...

Blessed assurance,
Jesus is mine!
Oh what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of
GodI'm born of his
This is my story, this is my ...

Let me walk, blessed
Lord, in the way
Thou hast gone,
Leading straight to the land above;
Giving cheer everywhere to the sad and the lone,
Fill my way...

Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer,
That calls me from a world of care,
And bids me, at my
Father's throne, make all my wants and wishes known...

What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms.
Lean...

He Reached
Downby Iris
Dement(Verse 1)
A certain man one day did go down to
JerichoFallin’ among thieves along the way
Well they stripped him then the...

Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by
It’s so hard to make every note bend just right
You lay down the hours and leave not one trace
but a tune for ...

Well you told me that you wished that things had not
Turned out this way
You never thought thered come a time
When you would go away
But you stayed ri...

Well I woke up this morning without you.
Don't ask me how but I go t through
The floor of this room I've been pacing
Trying to drown out the sound my ...

On a gravel back-road, down deep in the
FallSo long ago, yet how well
I recallMy
Grandfather's green truck with the rusted-out rimsand me on the seat,...

In an Appalachian, Greyhound station
 She sits there waiting, in a family way
 "Goodbye brother, Tell Mom I love her
 Tell all the others, I'll write ...

I am a poor wayfarin' stranger
Travelling through this world of woe
And there's no sickness, toil or danger
in that bright land to which I goI'm going...

She don't like her eggs all runny
She thinks crossin' her legs is funny
She looks down her nose at money
She gets it on like the Easter Bunny
She's my...