Last Of The True Believers Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) I'm working on a morning flight to anywhere but here I'm watching this evening fire burn away my tears All my life I've left My troubles by the door Leaving is al...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) If I promise not to cry Will you look me in the eye And tell me that you've known me? I was your late, your lonely child I am enhanced by all you've shown me And...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) When you are leaving the harbor Do you cry out to the shore? Do you bless the wave of the ocean Do you call your vessel home? As you leave the safest harbor Do y...Read Full Lyrics

(By Paul Kennerly) There's a star in heaven's sky Always shining bright It's just a tear in an angel's eye A gentle guiding light [Chorus:] Let it shine on me Let it show the way...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) I am leaving Mississippi in the evening rain These Delta towns wear satin gowns in a high beamed frame Loretta Lynn guides my hands through the radio Where would ...Read Full Lyrics

(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 you're lonely You are my sum...Read Full Lyrics

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 wastin' mine tonight [Chorus:...Read Full Lyrics

Love at the Five and Dime Rita was sixteen years Hazel eyes and chestnut hair She made the Woolworth counter shine And Eddie was a sweet romancer And a darn good dancer And they wa...Read Full Lyrics

(John Stewart) Any given day there's a jet flying somwhere Oh, we bought a ticket and vanished in the sky And how was I to know he was leaving in the morning I never heard him go ...Read Full Lyrics

She sleeps alone in the warm nights of Memphis Where the Peabody Hotel meets the velveteen sky She sings like the waves in the cool Mississippi That brought her from St. Paul in '7...Read Full Lyrics