Our Very Own Lyrics

We walk along the Hudson when it snows here in Manhattan Seems we've lived our lives so out of place You touch my cheek and I do wonder how this happened That two young lovers coul...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith - Maura Kennedy) Oh she was high up there in the air Caught still by a soldier's stare Whenever it was men amongst men Down upon the land And she followed those mo...Read Full Lyrics

Goodbye gray sky I see my heart comin' round the bend The sun's comin' up on the Poet In My Window Her saving grace is my old friend I'll never lose if my heart goes flyin' If I s...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) We all said you'd never make it 'cause you had that fragile heart And you were odd within the ways of the social You through a caution to us all An...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) He still sends her roses on the 4th of July They're always white roses and she never asks why She still doesn't know where he goes Thursday nights But his wedding...Read Full Lyrics

(Tom Waits) Never saw the morning till I stayed up all night Never saw the sunshine till I turned out the light Never saw my hometown till I stayed away too long I never heard the...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith - Harlan Howard) When you say I love you Is it just because you know that's what I want to hear? Lately friends are warning me What they hesitate to tell me leaves...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith - Margaret Mary Graham - Mikki Griffith) Saint Teresa, your patron child's come home Were you there to greet her? Did your angels know her songs? And all her sorro...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) Snowing - through Dakota I once drove With the wife of my best pal Who cloaks her heart from cold with gold It was well into the winter Of December...Read Full Lyrics

Clark She was standin' on the gone side of leavin' She found her thumb and stuck it in the breeze She'll take anything that's goin' close to somewhere She can lay it down and live ...Read Full Lyrics