nanci_griffith/little.love.affairs @ALBUM: Little Love Affairs Nanci Griffith Little Love Affairs Transcribed by Achut Reddy (achut@sun.com) @SONG: Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool by Nanci Griffith You can cuss the daylights out of this pale winter moon And we can ponder every reason why your true love was untrue You can cry your eyes out, I've got a shoulder here for you And every day your broken heart's gonna turn a lighter shade of blue Chorus: Cause anyone can be somebody's fool Oh look at me, I once was a fool for you So you know it's true Anyone can be somebody's fool Down in this lonely town there's a lovely silver frost So we can stop and have another round for the true love that you've lost It's gonna take a little time before your emptiness grows old And underneath that silver frost you've still got a heart of gold Maybe when this winter's over You're gonna walk knee deep in clover And your heartache around the corner You're gonna feel brand new @SONG: I Knew Love by Roger Brown I knew love when it still meant forever When a feeling shared didn't always have to hurt And the promise that was made would go unbroken I knew love when it was more than just a word And I knew a time when hope was all you needed And if you cared you found a way to make things work And life was what two people shared together Oh I knew love when it was more than just a word Chorus: I knew love when I could still believe it was the greatest power in the world I knew love when it was more than just a word I knew hearts when they made it all so easy Sad good-byes were seldom ever heard When I wouldn't have to read this note that says you're leaving Yeah I knew love when it was more than just a word @SONG: Never Mind by Harlan Howard You say you're heading out to California You've heard the grapes are falling from the vine I was hoping you might have the urge to write me But I don't believe you will, so never mind I was talking to a man down at Tenesco I thought they might be hiring anytime I'm so tired of going any way the wind blows And I thought that me and you, but never mind Chorus: Never mind, never mind I'm just talking through the wine And you know that drinking always makes me sad But before this night is through I better say I love you Or I'm gonna always wish that I had I first saw you picking oranges in Orlando And all day you kept your ladder close to mine We froze in Georgia, burned up in Chicago And I always thought that we, but never mind And did you know today my baby called you daddy Sometimes I've wished that she was yours and mine I could call my brother Milt in Cincinnati And ask him for a loan, but never mind @SONG: Love Wore a Halo (Back Before The War) by Nanci Griffith He owned a hotel on Jersey shore She made her living seeing the sailors door to door He was a small Hawaiian with a crooked smile But he made her eyes light up like the heavens on the Fourth of July She ran the numbers, they say she ran them clean Those porcelain hands keep a ledger even in her sleeves While he worked the See-Bees in the Phillipines They say she made more money than you and I will ever see Chorus: Cause love was a magnet on the Jersey shore If you were looking for love boys, you could have found it in '44 Cause love wore a halo back before the war When the men loved the women And the women knew what men were for It was in the winter when he came home And he had to hold those porcelain hands just to keep her warm So they had a daughter, her name was Stephanie Anne They sent her off to Vasser to find herself a family man She sold the hotel; it belongs to me And I watch those sailors come and go by the waves in the sea From the poor chaps in the honeymoon suite And I hear them fishing their lives away in the Florida Keys @SONG: So Long Ago by Nanci Griffith My daddy sent me on to Baton Rouge in 1969 He said our love was like a forest fire and he'd end it with a mind So you rode with us to Temple, Texas where I did catch the train And I remember waving back at you from a silted window pane Chorus: And I said fare thee well true love of mine And I said fare thee well sweet lips of wine And you said fare thee well my texas rose And then you blew a kiss of innocence as the trains began to roll So long ago You'd gone off to fight the war when I returned from school And I traded in my innocence when the springtime came in bloom And I married for my family; one night I dreamed of you And you were running from me in the rain down on Congress Avenue Now I saw you once in a crowded bar and it was Christmas time I was frightened by the thunder of our hearts in '69 Because I live my life in whispers now and I choose to live alone So I slipped back to the avenue and flipped my collar to the cold @SONG: Gulf Coast Highway by Nanci Griffith, James Hooker, Danny Flowers Gulf coast highway, he worked the rails He worked the rice fields with their cold dark wells He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico The only thing we've owned is this old house here by the road And when he dies he says he'll catch some blackbird's wing And we will fly away to heaven Come some sweet blue bonnet spring She walked through springtime when I was home The days were sweet, our nights were warm The seasons changed, the jobs would come The flowers fade, and this old house felt so alone When the work took me away And when she dies she says she'll catch some blackbird's wing And she will fly away to heaven Come some sweet blue bonnet spring Highway 90, the jobs are gone We kept our garden, we set the sun This is the only place on Earth blue bonnets grow And once a year they come and go At this old house here by the road And when we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wing And we will fly away to heaven Come some sweet blue bonnet spring Yes when we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wing And we will fly away together Come some sweet blue bonnet spring @SONG: Little Love Affairs by Nanci Griffith, James Hooker When I wake in the night And find that I'm dreaming You're the first thought in mind Love's a fair-weather friend when you're lonely You are my summer state of mind Chorus: Does it sing to you nightly? Does it lay down beside you? Does it make you hear songs on the radio? It once was my shadow, grown weary of travel Til you gave it home What makes the love grow When the seasons change? What makes the love grow? It's simple it comes and it grows on its own @SONG: I Wish It Would Rain by Nanci Griffith Chorus: Oh I wish it would rain and wash my face clean I want to find some dark cloud to hide in here Oh love and a memory sparkle like diamonds When the diamonds fall they burn like tears When the diamonds fall they burn like tears Once I had a love from the Georgia Pans who only cared for me I want to find that love of 22 here at 33 I've got a heart on my right and one on my left And neither suits my needs No the one I love is way out west and he never will need me I'm gonna pack up my two-step shoes and head for the Gulf Coast plains I want to walk the streets of my own home town where everybody knows my name I want to ride a ways down to Galveston when the hurricanes blow in Cause that Gulf Coast water tastes as sweet as wine when your heart's rolling home in the wind @SONG: Outbound Plane by Nanci Griffith, Tom Russell Don't want to be standing here With this ticket for this outbound plane Cause I've been here before And somehow this doesn't feel the same Talk is cheap so we could talk all night long We may never figure out just where your love went wrong Chorus: Don't want to be standing here And I ain't gonna want to be talking here And I ain't gonna really care who's to blame If love won't fly out on its own free will It's going to catch that outbound plane The old folks say that love's not forever any more Because these young people walk away from love alone to pace the floor Young or old guys say that love is still the same And you may walk away from love but you'll fall head and heels again Two lonely hearts in this airport knowing Neither cares where that other heart is going That frown your wearing's just your halo turned upside down Where is the laughter we once shared back in the lost and found? These broken wings are gonna leave me here to stand my ground And you can have this ticket to that lonely plane that's flying outside @SONG: I Would Change My Life by Robert Earl Keen, Jr. You never liked this place where we'd been living all alone So you packed up your things and bought a one-way ticket home And leaving never hurts as much as being left behind Chorus: I would change my life I would make it right I would change my life If you would only change your mind I have spent my hours on some misbegotten dream I have spent my money on some foolish-hearted things I have spent my memories on old and ? wine Birds are flying south To spend the wintertime The skies are turning blue to grey The fire we started here Will soon be burning out And it gets colder everyday I wish that I could find the words to make you come back home I wish that I could say the things you needed for so long I wish that you could see me now, maybe then you'd find @SONG: Sweet Dreams Will Come by John Stewart I was sleeping, listen Ellie, Dreaming of days yet come I don't care what you say I know that those days are sure to come And I'm waking and I'm calling I'm shaking and I'm falling And oh little darling I wonder when those sweet dreams will come There's a hole in the sky That was made by my right guard last night And then there's you and I Assuring that everything's all right We are nursing, pretending Cursing, then defending And yet it's neverending Makes you wonder when those sweet dreams will come I'm looking for some love I guess that's why people buy dogs Is there someone up above? And I wonder is the captain keeping logs I am cursing and I'm praying Not knowing what we're saying And yet it's everyday 'n I wonder when those sweet dreams will come I feel like a fire In the morning when the fire is out I am walking on the wire And the wire is what the whole thing is about The pretending is thinning Surrender is winning And yet it's beginning To feel like those sweet dreams will come The pretending is thinning Surrender is winning And yet it's beginning To feel like those sweet dreams will come And oh little darling Don't you wonder when those sweet dreams will come? Sweet dreams will come Sweet dreams will come Sweet dreams will come Sweet dreams will come