Boots Of Spanish Leather Nanci Griffith

my own true love There's nothing I'm wishing to be owning Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled From across that lonesome ocean Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine Maybe silver or of

SPANISH BOOTS Rod Stewart

I used to work and take a salary In a hole up near a foundry But it did not take me too long To get my boots on a "So Long!" Long Spanish boots on a "So Long!"

Spanish Boots Jeff Beck

Beck, Stewart, Wood) I used to work and take a salary In a hole up near a foundry But it did not take me too long To get my boots on a "So Long!" Long Spanish boots on a "So Long!"

Speed of the Sound of Loneliness Nanci Griffith

You`ve broken the speed of the sound of loneliness You`re out there runnin` Just to be on the run Well, I got a heart that burns with a fever And I got a worried and jealous mind Well how can a love That

Wall Of Death Nanci Griffith

Let me ride on the wall of death one more time Let me ride on the wall of death one more time You can waste your time on the other rides But this is the nearest to being alive Oh let me take my chances

Dress Of Laces Nanci Griffith

And she has a dress of laces It`s worn in many places The shoulder hangs upon her by a thread And she has a need for ahrin` For someone warm and carin` And no one sees a heart that`s underfed Young girl

Heart Of Indochine Nanci Griffith

I am on a Riverboat on the Saigon River Where the music's too loud While I try to have my dinner Stories I've been told of 1954 When the bodies washed ashore from that distant war My friend Michael came

Mountain Of Sorrow Nanci Griffith

짝though 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 sorrow창?

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

From A Distance Nanci Griffith

blue and green And the snow-capped mountains white From a distance the ocean meets the stream And the eagle takes to flight From a distance there is harmony And it echoes through the land It's the voice of

Big Blue Ball Of War Nanci Griffith

In 1914, this ball was at war It went from Belgium on through Ireland The Congo, then back home This big blue ball of war spun on it's own Spinning history in lines of blood When many souls fell off And

He Was A Friend Of Mine Nanci Griffith

He was a friend of mine He was a friend of mine Never had no money To pay for his fine He was a friend of mine He never done no wrong He never done no wrong Thousand miles from home He never hurt no one

Nobody's Angel Nanci Griffith

"Something's disturbed me I'm out of your company I'm Out of the country With another man's heart I'm angered and doubtful And I'd shout an earful But nothing comes out When I open my mouth [Chorus:] I'm

Clock Without Hands Nanci Griffith

(Nanci Griffith) I am a clock without hands I'm walking through the midnights Counting all the moments Of the loves I've left behind Crying on the shoulders of the days I've not forgotten now I am frozen

Two For The Road Nanci Griffith

Out of the blue horizon Stretched a band of gold From the straits of Juan de Fuca To the east of Portland, Maine You held my hand As we raced along the buffalo bayou Chasing the tail of this globe You

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?

In The Wee Small Hours Nanci Griffith

In the wee small hours of the morning While the whole wide world is fast asleep You lie awake and think about the girl And never ever think of counting sheep When your lonely heart has learned its lesson

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

I Live On A Battlefield Nanci Griffith

"I live on a battlefield Surrounded by the ruins of a love we built And then destroyed between us, the smoke has cleared As I stumble through the rubble, I'm dazed and seein' double And I'm truly mystified

Roses On The 4th Of July Nanci Griffith

"He still sends her roses on the 4th of July. They're always white roses, she's never asked why. She still doesn't know where he goes, Thursday nights.

Beacon Street (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

is the cry of the trains as they bid farewell on Beacon Street [Chorus:] And here I am again I'm in the company of strangers It's a cold winter wind that sings a song You say your love is lost I'm not

Fields Of Summer (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

of summer Can you hold me?

Saint Teresa Of Avila Nanci Griffith

Did your angels know her songs And all her sorrows Did you lift them from her brow Did you kiss her hand that took her soul Back up to you Our Patron saint of harmony and vow Help me in this stillness

Old Hanoi Nanci Griffith

Books to read in English, books of light and sorrows Of this foreign land and they are gone and they've flown away Where are all the cyclos With their drivers pedaling grace?

Truly Something Fine Nanci Griffith

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) Oh love is a hand you hold When you think you've lost your mind It is bitter as persimmons Yet as sweet of rose on vine It's the thorns upon the vines That sometimes tear

Canadian Whiskey Nanci Griffith

In the hills of Montana There`s a timber wolf howlin` The 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

Woman of the Phoenix Nanci Griffith

thousand places gone Dallas was my late night out Radcliffe's served to roust me out And Houston lay like Cleavland with the color removed And all I ever wanted Was to wander and be wooed Like a Woman of

Not Innocent Enough Nanci Griffith

They say I robbed the restaurant and a Memphis cop got shot I was trying to feed my habit, I was scared and I was high It was never my intention that anyone should die And just how many of us are innocent

1937 Pre-War Kimball Nanci Griffith

(Nanci Griffith) Oh, it sat in this corner for many a year Through fireside parties, of tears and cheers The hands of James Hooker flew over its keys And God know who who else 'fore it came to me When

Across America Nanci Griffith

street 'Cause you don't know someone Until you've looked them in the eye And that gave me a purpose And every reason why I drove myself across America From Sea to shining Sea From the Rocky coast of

The Streets Of Baltimore Nanci Griffith

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 took us to the streets of

Wings Of A Dove Nanci Griffith

chorus- On the wings of a snow white dove He sends his pure sweet love A sign from abouve- a sign from above On the wings of a dove.

Ford Econoline (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

And she's the salt of the earth, Straight from the bosom of the Mormon church, With a voice like wine, Cruising along in that Ford Econoline.

Who Knows Where The Time Goes Nanci Griffith

Across the evening sky All the birds are leaving But how can they know It`s time for them to go Before the winter fire I will still be dreaming I have no thought of time For who knows where the time goes

Turn Around Nanci Griffith

Turn around and you`re two Turn around and you`re four Turn around and you`re a young girl Going out the door Turn around Turn around Turn around and you`re a young girl Going out of the door (Turn around

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 love you too As all my thoughts of you pass `fore my face a thousand times The way they

Waiting For Love Nanci Griffith

Life is full of finer things They`re lost and found in the dark It`s the dog by the highway Who said,"Goin` my way?"

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

Things I Don't Need Nanci Griffith

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, and I turn around And I?

Brave Companion Of The Road (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

My brave companion of the road [Chorus:] It seems to me that you are lonelier Than I've ever seen you be Oh, it's plain to see That you've gone crazier Than you ever thought you'd be When the lights go

These Days In An Open Book Nanci Griffith

rooms and headlights You're coming up beside me Whether it's day or night These days my life is an open book Missing pages I cannot seem to find These days your face In my memory Is in a folded hand of

Goin' Back To Georgia Nanci Griffith

Oh the city snow makes your brown eyes shine We've gotta look real hard to find a reason to cry New York, New York is a friend of the travelling kind And I'm coming around from years of hard times He's

Across The Great Divide Nanci Griffith

I've been walkin' in my sleep Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep Where the years went I can't say I just turned around and they've gone away I've been siftin' through the layers Of dusty books

Are You Tired Of Me Darling Nanci Griffith

Are you tired of me my darling Did you mean those words you said That have made me yours forever Since the day when we were wed Tell me, would you live life over Could you make another wife Are you tired

One Of These Days Nanci Griffith

We walk along the Hudson when it snows here in Manhattan seems we've lived our lives so out of place You touch my cheek and I do wonder how this happened that two young lovers could pack their dreams

Darcy Farrow Nanci Griffith

Where the Walker runs down into the Carson Valley plain There lived a young maiden Darcy Farrow was her name The daughter of old Dundee and a fair one was she The sweetest flower that bloomed o`er the

BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER Bob Dylan

BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER Oh, I'm sailin' away my own true love, I'm sailin' away in the morning. Is there something I can send you from across the sea, From the place that I'll be landing?

So Long Ago (Album Version) Nanci Griffith

and he'd end it with a mind So you rode with us to Temple, Texas where I did catch the train And I remember waving back at you from a silted window pane [Chorus:] And I said fare thee well true love of

Desperadoes Waiting For A Train Nanci Griffith

(Guy Clark) And I'd play the red river valley And he'd sit in the kitchen and he'd cry And run his fingers Through seventy years of living And wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry We were

Boots of Spanish Leather Half Moon Run

you can send me, my own true love There’s nothin’ I wish to be ownin’ Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled From across that lonesome ocean Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine Made of