Fragile Lyrics

(Ralph Mctell) Four who shared this room and we caught up in the craic Sleeping late on Sundays and we never got to Mass Chorus It's a long way from Clare to here It's a long way...Read Full Lyrics

(By Nanci Griffith & Eric Taylor) Down at the station the tracks are cold The wheels of thunder, they roll no more And the heart of America cries for the souls Who won't be rollin...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith - Adam Duritz - Brian Claflin) Oh the city snow makes our brown eyes shine We've gotta look real hard to find a reason to cry New York, New York is a friend of the...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) Flippin' bottle caps through the ring around the moon All alone on a Saturday night with the stars in bloom I am a vision of my mother's dream come true Built thi...Read Full Lyrics

Grapefruit moon One star shining Shining down on me I heard that tune and now I'm pining Honey, can't you see Every time I hear that melody Something breaks inside And the grapefru...Read Full Lyrics

My mother came to America Sailed through the harbor of hopes and of dreams Back in the Thirties With the streets paved in gold And the sky laced with moonbeams Mothers and daughte...Read Full Lyrics

(Traditional) 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 Thousan...Read Full Lyrics

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 ...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) Everybody packs their goals And sails away for better shores I have seen times My sails have held a brilliant shine I hear tell that dreams come tr...Read Full Lyrics

(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 midnight... Shouting I don't wanna th...Read Full Lyrics