(with Jimmy Buffett) I love this town? like an unmade bed I love this town? of the living dead I love this town? gonna paint it red If I can spare a
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 goodbye to
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
(with Mac MacAnnaly) I?ll never fall in love again It?s such a contradiction To lose all control and common sense And even intuition You came along
They both wrote poetry In fact, that was how they met He was a Yorkshire man in Cambridge She was from Massachusetts They spoke and they fell in love
The drops from the faucet like a nervous heart Beat on my porcelain sink a rhythm avant-garde I page through the phone book, reach for my fountain pen
You'll never be the sun turning in the sky And you won't be the moon above us On a moonlit night And you won't be the stars in heaven Although they burn
(originally by Julie Gold) I'm sitting on a southbound train Staring at the sky I'm thinking of my childhood And I'm trying not to cry While a stranger
by Nanci Griffith My daddy sent me on to Baton Rouge in 1969 He said our love was like a forest fire and he'd end it with a mind So you rode with us to
by Nanci Griffith, James Hooker When I wake in the night And find that I'm dreaming You're the first thought in mind Love's a fair-weather friend when
Oh, I wish that you would call We have not spoken since last fall That smoky conversation's coming home Do I just read between your lines Yeah it could
by Nanci Griffith 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
This heart was almost taken This heart had a love of its own This heart was reawakened When you came along This heart was born feet runnin' This heart
Shut it down and call this road a day And put this silence in my heart in a better place I have travelled with your ghost now so many years That I see
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
by Nanci Griffith You can cuss the daylights out of this pale winter moon And we can ponder every reason why your true love was untrue You can cry your
We're living in a time of inconvenience Compassion fails me with this meanness in the air Our city streets are filled with violence So we close our doors
Griffith I know you believe in miracles That this love will come back around I know you believe the grass is growing Across this winter To the south of