Roses On The 4th Of July 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

[Chorus:] I want a simple life Like my mother One true love for my older years I don't want your wars To take my children I want a simple life...while I'm here The sun and moon wa...Read Full Lyrics

I heard the music long ago Songs that rent the air Fading in and out at night While I was lying there Voices soft and lonely and later Rock and Roll Flying across the Rio Gra...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) Well, it's that old time story of a new face to glory, Someone wanted my soul for their pride What about the system of fools arranged for missing, Well, I can't l...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) My daddy sent me off to Baton Rouge in nineteen-sixty-nine He said our love was like a forest fire and he'd end it with the miles So you rode with us to Temple, T...Read Full Lyrics

I'm sitting on a southbound train, Staring at the sky. I'm thinking of my childhood And I'm trying not to cry; While a stranger sleeps against me, And it feels like I'm his wife. T...Read Full Lyrics