Banks Of The Pontchartrain Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) Where are you going there? With your suitcase by the back porch stairs With my heart in your hand In this cold December wind again The cafes and bars are closed T...Read Full Lyrics

(Tom Paxton) It's a long and dusty road It's a hot and heavy load And the folks I meet ain't always kind Some are bad and some are good Some have done the best they could Some hav...Read Full Lyrics

(Tom Russell) 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 h...Read Full Lyrics

My bags are waiting in a cab downstairs I've got a ticket in my pocket says I'll make it out of here And I came by here just to tell you good-by I can see it in your face, you don'...Read Full Lyrics

(James Hooker) If I came back to the land of cotton Would you love just me? Old loves lost are ne'er forgotten That's the way it's supposed to be Are you short or are you long? A...Read Full Lyrics

(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 f...Read Full Lyrics

(By Buddy Mondlock) Flipped into the wind Like the ashes of her cigarette He got scattered thrown on the breeze As he tried to forget He lost all his heat And his heart never will...Read Full Lyrics

(By Eric Taylor) Well, the good times scratched a laugh From the lungs of the young men In a Deadwood saloon, South Dakota afternoon And the old ones by the door With their heads ...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, I used to wish I was a hard line taker... And they'd say, "Six to one a half dozen'll break her", 'till I fell in love with a young man who sang the blues Oh, bless my daddy, h...Read Full Lyrics

(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...Read Full Lyrics