Nanci Griffith

[fox69]

"Traveling Through This Part Of You"

"Traveling Through This Part Of You"


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 'fatigued'
I'm traveling through...this part of you

[Chorus:]
Where are you amongst this madness
On the streets of Saigon?
Where were you in 1969?
When I was but a youth
Oh, here were you...
You were traveling through, this part of you

I'll make my way now on my own
Back to my home to live alone
I have traveled through this part of you
Yet, I will save this time and place
For the time when I can say
I traveled truth this part of you

[Chorus]

You were an American boy
Whose innocence was lost here in the war
And I wear your scars
While traveling through this part of you

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 'fatigued'
I'm traveling through...this part of you

I'm traveling through... this part of you...
I'm traveling through... this part of you...

 

[fox69]

"Trouble In The Fields"

"Trouble In The Fields"


Baby I know that we've got trouble in the fields
When the bankers swarm like locust out there turning away our yield
The trains roll by our silos, silver in the rain
They leave our pockets full of nothing
But our dreams and the golden grain

Have you seen the folks in line downtown at the station
They're all buying their ticket out and talking the great depression
Our parents had their hard times fifty years ago
When they stood out in these empty fields in dust as deep as snow

[Chorus:]
And all this trouble in our fields
If this rain can fall, these wounds can heal
They'll never take our native soil
But if we sell that new John Deere
And then we'll work these crops with sweat and tears
You'll be the mule I'll be the plow
Come harvest time we'll work it out
There's still a lotta love, here in these troubled fields

There's a book up on the shelf about the dust bowl days
And there's a little bit of you and a little bit of me
In the photos on every page
Now our children live in the city and they rest upon our shoulders
They never want the rain to fall or the weather to get colder

[Chorus]

You'll be the mule I'll be the plow
Come harvest time we'll work it out
There's still a lotta love, here in these troubled fields

 

[fox69]

"Trouble With Roses"

"Trouble With Roses"


I worked hard for that rose
You may have it when you go
'Cause it's the dreaming it lends
Worth holding here
And when the outbound lane brings me trouble again
If my heart's in the wind
I wanna hold it near

[Chorus:]
Don't say no, it's not part of this show
When the lights were down low
Your eyes were closing too
Now the bar is closing
I can leave here knowing
That the dreams are still growing
As long as you're holding that rose

My pockets are clean
Though they're empty half the time
I spend my half times in dreamin'
Least I ain't wastin' lines
And the boys that I know, Lord their questions get old
'Cause it's the boys who ask questions
& the Man who knows

[Chorus]

Take care of that rose, it's my dreams that you're holdin'
When you hold that rose

 

[fox69]

"Truly Something Fine"

"Truly Something Fine"


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 vines
That sometimes tear two hearts entwined
It's a gentle breath upon your cheek
That is so truly something fine

[Chorus:]
Love is something truly fine
Love is love and truly blind
Love is only human kind
Love is something truly fine
Oh love is something truly fine
Something never looked to find
Yet truly something fine

You and I are roses
Chose to wither on the vines
With you, you're back to love
With me, I've run from mine
We are some kind of weather
You're the storm blown 'cross my life
I am a leaf of autumn
A fallen tear of something fine

[Chorus]

From the shadows of the Mekong
To my Liffey, Dublin's wine
The tide turned me around
And brought the taste of something fine
And something's truly lost
As I'll not try to change your mind
The thorns of taking chances
Made it something truly fine

[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Try The Love"

"Try The Love"


Before you marry, before you mend
Or have someone's children, long before then
You could find something with somebody new
Try the love that I'm offering in my open arms
Before you do

We should have quarreled, it's so unwise
To cut yourself loose with only some lies
Wasn't my first time, it won't be my last
Try the love that took only a minute to grow
It won't die that fast

[Bridge:]
Try the love that the keeper of the key
Told me one time was clearly not for me
He's not keepin' no more
It's the kind when held up to a flame
Whispers one word, darlin' always your name
Of this you can be sure

I have a home now, you should come back
It's got so much room that I can't unpack
This is my wish, dear, a now spoken truth
Try the love that once hidden now seem so alive
It's waiting on you

[Bridge]

Try the love that once hidden now seem so alive
It's waiting on you

 

[fox69]

"Turn Around"

"Turn Around"


Where are you goin' my little one, little one?
Where are you goin' my baby my own?
Turn around and you're two
Turn around and you're four
Turn around and you're a young girl
Going out of the door

[First Chorus:]
Turn around
Turn around
Turn around and you're a young girl
Going out of the door

Where are you goin' my little one, little one?
Little Dirndles and petticoats, where have you gone?
Turn around and you're tiny
Turn around and you're grown
Turn around and you're a young wife
With babes of your own

[Second Chorus:]
Turn around
Turn around
Turn around and you're a young wife
With babes of your own

[First Chorus)

Where are you goin' my little one, little one?
Where are you goin' my baby my own?

 

[fox69]

"Two For The Road"

"Two For The Road"


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 Bayou
Chasing the tail of this globe
You say one day, babe we're bound to
'Cuz it takes two for the road

[Chorus:]
We're two of a kind heart
Closing in the distances
Now here comes our twilight part
And we've had the best light of our days
We're two rails that never crossed in anger
Voices never raised
Two of a kind heart
Two for the road

We have been blessed with dreaming
You had Georgia's New Mexico
And while your hands worked in China
It was from Ireland I wrote
Moving out from America
From those Buffalo Bayou trails
Now didn't you tell me, babe, we'll have this globe
By its tail
'Cuz it takes two for the road

[Chorus]

And we can be anywhere and never leave home
With your hand to hold... we are two for the road
Two of a kind heart... two for the road

 

[fox69]

"Up Against The Rain"

"Up Against The Rain"


You ran up against the rain everyday of your short life
Suffered for your muse without complaining
Never heard you swear life isn't fair but it doesn't make it right
You left the world knowing all too well what pain is

You took it on yourself to pave the road to hell
Paid your dues and sang the blues, Lord, you knew them all too well
Every word upon the page, you let them sail away
The wind would blow and then you'd go up against the rain

You listened to the songs and then you wrote your own
Somewhere along the way you passed the muse along
I feel your presence in this room beneath the waning moon
It's good to know that dying couldn't tame you

You took it on yourself to pave the road to hell
Paid your dues and sang the blues, Lord, you knew them all too well
Every word upon the page, you let them sail away
The wind would blow and then you'd go up against the rain

Last night the weather turned, this morning we had snow
Today they'll lay you in the ground
Someday we'll all know where it is we go
My tears will say goodbye while the rain is coming down

You took it on yourself to pave the road to hell
Paid your dues and sang the blues, Lord, you knew them all too well
Every word upon the page, you let them sail away
The wind would blow and then you'd go up against the rain
The wind would blow and then you'd go up against the rain

 

[fox69]

"Waiting For Love"

"Waiting For Love"


Life is full of finer things
They're lost and found in the dark
It's the dog by the highway
Who said "Goin' my way?"
Now, he lives in your own backyard
He was waiting for love
You came along and fit the part

Its the whistle from the man
With the kindest hands
And a Norwegian name you can't say
You meet him in the street
Tripping over your own feet
He claims upi still anyway
Waiting for love
God forgives your lack of grace

[Chorus:]
Everyone I must know
From the dust bowl to the city
Is waiting for love (love)
To start another day
They may be shy of heart
Oh, their pockets maybe empty
Yet they maybe waiting for love (love)
And that's enough to fill our days

It's the heartworn jokes of your dear father
And the laughter in your own mother's heart
Its the plane blowin' in
With your loved one within
Who you've ached for in your time apart
When you're waiting for love
Life's a thread of paths to cross

[Chorus]

Whiter shade of pale is my best kept secret
It's the song that'll sail me back home
It's a picture in my hand
Of my own farm land
And the crops that I planted last spring
When you're waiting for love
You've got the finest life can bring

[Chorus]

When you're waiting for love (love)
You've got enough to fill your days

 

[fox69]

"Walk Right Back"

"Walk Right Back"


I want you to tell me why you walked out on me
I'm so lonesome every day
I want you to know that since you walked out on me
Nothing seems to be the same old way
Think about the love that burns within my heart for you
The good times we had before you went away, oh me

[Chorus:]
Walk right back to me this minute
Bring your love to me
Don't send it
I'm so lonesome every day

These eyes of mine
That gave you loving glances once before
Changed to shades of cloudy gray
I want so very much to see you
Just like before
I gotta know you're comin' back to stay
Please believe me when I say
It's great to hear from you
But there's a lotta things a letter just can't say. oh me

[Chorus]

Walk right back to me this minute
Bring your love to me don't send it
I'm so lonesome every day

I'm so lonesome
I'm so lonesome
I'm so lonesome every day