This Old Town Lyrics

Oh the grace that true love holds when hearts grow weary for Time alone You give it room and the warm to hold ... and it'll always come home True love is faithful all on it's own ...Read Full Lyrics

We're living in a time of inconvenience Compassion fails me with this meanness in the air Our city streets are filled with violence So we close our doors to the city And pretend th...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith - James Hooker) Oh love is a hand you hold When you think you've lost your mind It is bitter as persimmons Yet as sweet of rose on vine It's the thorns upon the vi...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) Nothing that I've ever seen Now means much of anything In traveling through this part of you And the Vietnam that I had dreamed The place you wore your life "fati...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) Out of the blue horizon Stretched a band of gold From the straits of Juan de Fuca To the east of Portland, Maine You held my hand As we raced along the buffalo ba...Read Full Lyrics

(Traditional) Chorus Wasn't that a mighty storm Wasn't that a mighty storm in the morning, well Wasn't that a mighty storm That blew all the people away You know the year of 1900...Read Full Lyrics

I'm headed out on that highway Listenin' to them big trucks whine I'm headed out on that highway Listenin' to them big trucks whine White Freight Liner Won't you steal away my mind...Read Full Lyrics

The wing and the wheel... They carry things away Whether it's me that does the leavin' or the love that flies away The moon outside my window looks so lonely tonight Oh, there's a ...Read Full Lyrics

It's a southern road west of New Orleans I'm fightin' off a cold From these winter rounds Houston She's just around the corner But I think I'll stop off here in Lafayette Lord and ...Read Full Lyrics

(Nanci Griffith) If you could stand behind my eyes for just one day Could you see my heart beside you? If you knew my love had never flown away Would I be missing you wouldn't tha...Read Full Lyrics