LITTLE LOVE AFFAIRS



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Anyone Can Be Somebody's Fool

 (Nanci Griffith)


You can cuss the daylights outta this
pale winter moon
We could ponder every reason why
your true love was untrue
You can cry your eyes out 'cuz I've
got a shoulder here for you
But, every day your broken heart is
gonna turn a lighter shade of blue

(chorus)
Oh, anyone can be somebody's fool
Just look at me... I once was a fool
for you
So you know it's true
Anyone can be somebody's fool
Out in this lonely town there is a
lovely silver frost
So, we could stop and have another round
for this true love that you've lost
It's gonna take a little time before
your emptiness grows old
But underneath that silver frost...
you've still got a heart of gold

(repeat chorus)

Hey, when this winter's over
You're gonna walk knee deep in clover
You know your heart will 'round the corner
And you're gonna feel brand new

(repeat chorus)

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I Knew Love

 (Roger Brown)


I knew love
When it still meant forever
When a feeling shared didn't always
have to hurt
And a promise that was made would
go unbroken
I knew love
When it was more than just a word

I knew a time
When hope was all you needed
And if you cared you found a way to
make things work
When 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
And sad goodbyes were seldom
ever heard
When I wouldn't have to read this
note that says you're leaving
I knew love
When it was more than just a word

(repeat chorus)

I knew love when it was
more than just a word

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Never Mind

 (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 Genesco
He said they might be hiring any time
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 talkin' through the wine
And you know that drinkin' 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 pickin' oranges
in Orlando
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

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

(repeat chorus)

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Love Wore A Halo (Back Before The War)

 (Nanci Griffith)


She owned a hotel on the Jersey shore
She made her living sending sailors
door to door
He was the small one with a
crooked smile
Oh, he made her eyes light up like
the heavens on the Fourth of July

She ran the numbers... They say she
ran 'em clean
Those porcelain hands could keep
a ledger even in her sleep
While he worked the Seabees in
the Philippines
They say she made more money than
you or I will ever see

(chorus)
Love was an anchor on the
Jersey shore
If you were looking for love, boys,
you could've found it in forty four
'Cuz 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
He had to hold those porcelain hands
just to keep her warm
So they had a daughter... they named
her Stephanie Anne
Hey, they sent her off to Vassar to
find herself a family man

(repeat chorus)

Now, she sold the hotel... it belongs to me
I watch those sailors come and go
like the waves in the sea
I've hung their portraits in the
honeymoon suite
I hear they're fishin' their lives away
in the Florida Keys

(repeat chorus)

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So Long Ago

 (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, Texas
where I did catch the train
I remember waving back at you
through a silted window pane

(chorus)
I said, "Fare thee well true love
of mine"
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 train began to roll
... So long ago
You'd gone off to fight the war when
I returned from school
I traded in my innocence when the
springtime came to bloom
I married for my family... one night
I dreamed of you
And you were running from me in
the rain down on Congress Avenue

(repeat chorus)

I saw you once in a crowded bar...
it was Christmas time
I was frightened by the thunder of
our hearts in sixty nine
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

(repeat chorus)

Where did we go?
That long ago?
So long ago

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Gulf Coast Highway

 (James Hooker/Nanci Griffith/Danny Flowers)


Gulf Coast Highway
He worked the rails
He worked the rice fields
With their cool dark wells
He worked the oil rigs in the
Gulf of Mexico
The only thing we've ever owned
Is this old house here by the road
And when he dies he says he'll catch
some blackbird's wing
Then he will fly away to Heaven come
some sweet blue bonnet spring

She walked through springtime
When I was home
The days were sweet
The nights were warm
The seasons change, the jobs would
come... the flowers fade
This old house felt so alone
When the work took me away
And when she dies she says, she'll
catch some blackbirds wing
Then she will fly away to Heaven come
some sweet blue bonnet spring

Highway 90
The jobs are gone
We tend our garden
We set the sun
This is the only place on earth
blue bonnets grow
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 blackbirds wing
Then we will fly away to Heaven come
some sweet blue bonnet spring

And when we die we say, we'll
catch some blackbirds wing
We will fly away together come
some sweet blue bonnet spring

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Little Love Affairs

 (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
Till 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
it's own

(repeat chorus)

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I Wish It Would Rain

 (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
Love in a memory
Sparkled 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 pines
Who only cared for me
I wanna find that love of twenty-two
Here at thirty-three
I've got a heart on my right
One on my left... neither suits my needs
No, the one I love lives a-way out West
And he never will need me

(repeat chorus)

I'm gonna pack up my two steppin' shoes
And head for the Gulf Coast plains
I wanna walk the streets of my
own hometown
Where everybody knows my name
I wanna ride the waves down
in Galveston
When the hurricanes blow in
'Cuz that Gulf Coast water tastes
sweet as wine
When your heart's rollin' home in
the wind

(repeat chorus)

When the diamonds fall darlin'... they
burn like tears

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Outbound Plane

 (Nanci Griffith/Tom Russell)


I don't wanna be standing here
With this ticket for this outbound plane
Oh, I've been here before
Somehow this doesn't feel the same
Talk is cheap
So we could talk all night long
And we may never figure out just
where your love went wrong

(chorus)
'Cuz I don't wanna be standin' here
Don't wanna be talkin' here
And I don't really care who's to blame
'Cuz if love won't fly on it's own
free will
It's gonna catch that outbound plane
The old folks say
That love's not forever anymore
Because these young people walk
away from love alone
To pace the floor
Young or old I say that love is still the same
You may walk away from love but
you'll fall head and heels again

(repeat chorus)

Two lonely hearts in this airport
knowing
Neither cares where that other
heart is going
But, if love won't fly on it's own
free will... it's gonna catch that
outbound plane

That frown you're wearing's
Just you're 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
You can have this ticket for that
lonely plane that's flying out

(repeat chorus)

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I Would Change My Life

 (Robert Earl Keen Jr)


You never liked this place where we'd
been living all along
So, you packed up your things and
bought a one-way ticket home
Leaving never hurt 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
embittered wine

(repeat chorus)

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

(repeat chorus)

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Sweet Dreams Will Come

 (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 shakin' and I'm fallin'
Oh, little darlin'
I wonder when those sweet dreams
will come

There's a hole in the sky
That was made by my Right Guard
last night
Oh, and then there's you and I
Assuring that everything's alright
We are nursing... pretending
Cursing then defending
And yet it's never ending
Makes ya' wonder when those sweet
dreams will come

I am lookin' 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 everdaying
And 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's what the whole
thing is about
The pretender is thinning
Surrender is winning
And yet, it's a beginning
To feel like those sweet dreams will come

Oh, little darlin'
Don't cha wonder when those sweet
dreams will come

(Oh, sweet dreams will come)

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