Let It Shine On Me 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

My friends think I'm crazy and maybe it's true 'cuz I'll go on and love you this way Though I have discovered that you love another And hardly remember my name [Chorus:] My youth ...Read Full Lyrics

Sun will stop shinin' and hearts will stop poundin' The screen is so lonely tonight The men are out prayin' and the women are sayin' She died for the loss of her prime and lived on...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) She owned a hotel on the Jersey shore She made her living sending sailors door to door He was the small one with a crooked smile Oh, he made her eyes light up lik...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) There's a light out on the freeway, says it's time to go I'm wasting my time counting stains on a barroom floor Thinking 'bout my hometown and the friends I'll le...Read Full Lyrics