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
everything is comin' up roses And when I'm pushin' up daisies... They'll want roses anyway Oh and everything is comin' up roses Its comin' up roses every
(By Nanci Griffith, Margaret Mary Graham & Mikki Griffith) Saint teresa, your patron childs come home Were you there to greet her? Did your angels know
(Nick Lowe & Paul Carrack) I live on a battlefield Surrounded by the ruins of a love we built And then destroyed between us, the smoke has cleared As
(By Sonny Curtis) Breakin' Rocks in the hot sun I fought the law and the law won I fought the law and the law won I needed money and I had none I fought
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 that be roses
I will find somebody new Maybe tomorrow I will stop this missing you Maybe tomorrow Times the healer... times the key So all the wise folks say Oh, maybe
(By Nanci Griffith, James Hooker & Danny Flowers) Gulf Coast Highway He worked the rails He worked the rice fields With their cool dark wells He worked
This flesh and bone ain't much protection For an honest heart like mine A broken home for good intentions Damaged inventions of my design [Chorus:]
playin' On the Gulf Breeze circuit He didn't play no hit songs or TV themes He's a guitar man just a hired hand From a local band [Chorus] The whistles
I know you believe in miracles And that this love will come back around I know you believe the grass is growing Across this winter To the south of this
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
road She's got feelings that need some repairin' And she did not give a damn that it showed [Chorus] The wind had a way with her hair And the blues
I have traveled far to be sitting here with you And I will leave this place alone That's a sad and simple truth There is so little time and so much to