Nanci Griffith

Oh, I'm sailing away, my own true love
I'm sailing away in the morning
Is there something I can send you from across the sea?
From the place where I'l...

(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 p...

Oh, I'm sailing away, my own true love
I'm sailing away in the morning
Is there something I can send you from across the sea?
From the place where I'l...

Morning Song for Sally -Nanci Griffith
As the morning light stretched
In across my bed
I thought of you
Remembering your laughing eyes
And all we said...

I found your letter in my mailbox today
You were just checking if i was okay
And if i miss you, well you know what they say
Just once in a very blue m...

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 ...

Song I Would Bring You Ireland
I would bring you Ireland
The cool sweet of the Dublin rain
If you would keep my heart for me
In the quiet of your Texa...

Rita was sixteen years, hazel eyes
and Chestnut hair.
She made the Woolworth counter shine.
And Eddie was a sweet romancer and darn good dancer.
And t...

(Nanci Griffith)
She owned a hotel on the Jersey shore
She made her living sending sailors  door to door
He was the small one with a crooked smile
Oh,...

So much silence to my hometown streets
Gonna put my cheek to the window and watch it sleep
Where the shadow's fall from sycamore trees
Fight off this ...

Tonight I think I'm gonna go downtown
Tonight I think I'm gonna look around
For something that I couldn't see
When this world was more real to me
Toni...

My mother came to America
Back in the Thirties
With the streets paved in gold
And the sky laced with moonbeams
Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons...

i always knew that i liked this place
you don\'t have to look too far to find a friendly face
i feel alive when i\'m walking on the street
i feel the ...

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 on...

(Nanci Griffith - Pat Alger - James Hooker)
Nobody seems to care about you
With your tool case by the roadside
There beneath the power lines
Or the pa...

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 l...

(Tom Waits)
Never saw the morning till I stayed up all night
Never saw the sunshine till I turned out the light
Never saw my hometown till I stayed aw...

Two For The Road
- Peggy Lee

If you're feeling fancy free,
Come wander through the world with me,
And any place we chance to be
Will be our rendezvou...

I could build a mansion
that is higher than the trees
I could have all the gifts I want
and never ask please
I could fly to Paris
it\'s at my beck and...

He will leave behind  all of his clothes
He wore  when he  was with her
All he need's are his railroad  boots
And his leather jacket
As he say  goodby...

The evening fell just like a star
Left a trail behind
If  this is love we're crazy
As we fight like cats and dogs
I just know there's got to be more
S...

All this for nothing, yeah yeah yeah
You know that you can give love a reason
Give love a chance

We tumble and fall, together we crawl
Forever we'll ...

Selective memory
if i lay my head down
i will see you in my dream
wearin that polka dot dress
and sittin by the stream
leaning in to hear you
and ever...

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...

The Temptations - I wish it would rain
By Kenny

作孽阿 作孽

Sunshine, blue skies, please go away.
My girl has found another and gone away.
With her went ...

I don't wanna talk about love
'Cause I've heard it before it talks too loud
You can hear it in a disco midnight, shouting
And I don't wanna think abou...

Rita was sixteen years, hazel eyes
and Chestnut hair.
She made the Woolworth counter shine.
And Eddie was a sweet romancer and darn good dancer.
And t...

I’ve seen it with my own eyes
How we’re gettin’ otherwise
Without the luxury of leavin’
The touch and feeling of free is
Untangible technically
Someth...

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker)
I don't wanna talk about love
'cause I've heard it before ...
And it talks too loud
You can hear it in a disco midnigh...

Loreena McKennitt - The Wexford Carol
Traditional Irish, arranged by Loreena McKennitt

Consider well and bear in mind
What our good God for us has do...

Once there was a tree....
and she loved a little boy.
And everyday the boy would come
and he would gather her leaves
and make them into crowns
and pla...

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 co...