Simple Life 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

I could use a little spin on a red brick floor In that crazy ol' bar when Tim locks the door Where the walls are gonna ring and the strings are gonna bend And it's a buss on the ch...Read Full Lyrics

(By Tom Russell) Drinking black market vodka in the back of the Scottsman's saloon Then it's red meat and whiskey like a coyote drunk on the moon Outside in Oslo the buskers' all ...Read Full Lyrics

(By Eric Taylor) As quiet as a street lamp This is some kinda town Whiskey go easy When the sun goes down My best to the midnight... God, look at the moon There's enough for two s...Read Full Lyrics

Tequila after midnight Drives loneliness away Makes strangers all around you look familiar And tequila after midnight Makes you feel so warm Makes you think you feel good when...Read Full Lyrics

(John Stewart) I'm sleepin' less in L. A. Dreamin' of days yet to come Oh, and I don't care what you say I know that those days will surely come I'm wakin' and I'm callin' I'm sha...Read Full Lyrics

(Gordon Lightfoot) He was standing by the highway With a sign that just said Mother When he heard a driver coming About a half a mile away So he held the sign up higher Where no d...Read Full Lyrics