Buffalo River Home John Hiatt

delta with no place to call your own mixing up drinks with mixed feelings all along the paint was peeling down to an Indian blanket on a pony with no rider in the flesh and bone looking for his buffalo

Cold River John Hiatt

Well, he packed up his suitcase 'Cause the deal gone down She was slipping on her stockings Lord it made the sweetest sound There was a baby in the reeds Along the river outside of town As he wound his

The River Knows Your Name John Hiatt

Oh the river knows your name And your tears falling like the rain All around you suffering and pain Oh the river knows your name And the river hears you cry As the lightning cracks the open sky

Your Love Is My Rest John Hiatt

These are the words That cry out of me in the night Like a buffalo herd From a shotgun blast scattered in flight I got a one track mind Going down a one train line Living on dreams half the time

The Wreck of the Barbie Ferrari John Hiatt

Saturday night he comes home stinking Sunday morning she wakes up thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking does she need to get the kids dressed to go to church he's pulled a shotgun out of

Down Home John Hiatt

late But I know that he's lyin' I got me no important dates My, how time is flyin' CHORUS: Well I keep on, keep on fallin' I keep on, keep on fallin' I keep on, keep on fallin' Fallin' down home

When My Love Crosses Over John Hiatt

riverbank in the pouring rain Giving thanks for the strength just to carry on through the fog and the cold There at the water's edge She tugged my arm, and I nodded my head Just one more step, and that river

Please Call Home John Hiatt

Well I thought you were in Houston or maybe San Antone I'm up here in Nashville hung up on the phone calling ollie ollie in free baby please call home It's not a new invention it's no monopoly Use

Fly Back Home John Hiatt

He said, "Subdivisions have taken my home There's no more pray to eat" I said, "Where we gonna live?"

Come Back Home John Hiatt

You said you had to go and get your life together I didn't know you had to go at it alone I guess we all have dreams floating on feathers I wish you'd come back home Rugs pulled out and all the curtains

Skin Game John Hiatt

everything that money can buy Now it's a place where a face ain't got no name Down here everybody's playing that ol' skin game Down in Mexico, mexico Well a boy can be a man down on Mexico Down to the river

True Believer John Hiatt

buddy 'bout some hip hop tune Hotter than a firework and it's still June Sun's about to burn itself right out of the sky Guess we'll all be lucky if we don't fry And the preacher's baptism' at the river

Feels Like Rain John Hiatt

Down here the river meets the sea And in the sticky heat I feel ya' open up to me Love comes out of nowhere baby, like a hurricane And it feels like rain Underneath the stars lying next to you

Little Blue Song For You John Hiatt

You're the river. Girl you live here, With the sun way up in the sky. CHORUS: When you're sad, Let that sad come through. Singing little blue song for you, Little blue song for you.

Come Home to You John Hiatt

they're too high to care And his cries drift off in the night And I been that kid, yes it's true And I been both of those parents too I'm ashamed when I lost my way But I'd do anything just to come home

When You Cut Me, I Bleed John Hiatt

your weight around Everything's so heavy in this God-damn town They go off the bridge They laugh in the wind There's only one hole you could put me in CHORUS: 'Cause when you cut me I bleed Red river

Crossing Muddy Waters John Hiatt

eyes are ravens We broke the bread and drank the wine from a jug that she'd been saving REPEAT CHORUS Baby's crying and the daylight's gone That big oak tree is groaning In rush of wind and river

Native Son John Hiatt

run to There ain't no underground If only you could fly You'd cut across the sky Like a rifle round Oh, who are your people And where is your homeland 'Cause they're dying side by side At the river

Icy Blue Heart John Hiatt

To turn what's been frozen for years Into a river of tears "These days we all play cool, calm and collected Why, our lips could turn blue just shooting the breeze" But under the frost, well, he thought

Across the Borderline John Hiatt

price to come so far Just to wind up where you are And you're still just across the borderline Up and down the Rio Grande A thousand footprints in the sand Reveal a secret no one can define The river

Leave Your Shoes With The Shoeshine Boy John Hiatt

Tell a joke that nobody knows Tell a joke that nobody knows Well if it's reasonably funny Why, they'll give you all the goddamn money Tell a joke that nobody knows Take your hat off and roll it home

Hold On For Your Love John Hiatt

The streets are all empty, the network's deveined Buildings walled up, electricity drained Shots in the square where they mowed them all down The river runs red from the center of town I worked for my

Do You Want My Job John Hiatt

For two dollars forty cents a day CHORUS: Do you want my Do you want my Do you want my Do you want my job I hump the stuff, I take the cash So my kids can wear Adidas And if you live here, home

Love Like Blood John Hiatt

could climb the highest mountain To show the world I could survive But without your lovin' baby I wouldn't even be alive Cause your love is like blood Cause your love is like blood to me Like a river

Learning How To Love You / Band Introductions (Live) John Hiatt

could climb the highest mountain To show the world I could survive But without your lovin' baby I wouldn't even be alive Cause your love is like blood Cause your love is like blood to me Like a river

Love Like Blood (Album Version) John Hiatt

me I could climb the highest mountain To show the world I could survive But without your lovin' baby I wouldn't even be alive Cause your love is like blood Cause your love is like blood to me Like a river

Train to Birmingham John Hiatt

I've been riding on this train Drinking whiskey for the pain Another good ol' boy going home And every town I see Seems to take a part of me That's the price that you pay when you roam CHORUS

Cross My Fingers John Hiatt

syncopation When all I wanna be is here with you And I'll be true to you cross my fingers I'll be good to you cross my fingers I'll be true to you cross my fingers Sure as a snake along the river

Thirty Years Of Tears John Hiatt

warned 'em but I didn't know These are tears from a long time ago I've got these tears from a long time ago I need to cry 30 years or so These are tears from a long time ago Well, I've cried me a river

Listening To Old Voices John Hiatt

to old voices with a new ear It's the livin' and the dyin' Well it scares the young ones so They can hardly catch their breath before too long They see the tears we're crying And they watch the river

High John Hiatt

endash; , like a star up in the sky That Indiana limestone coolin' off as we got high High as high as a water tower high High as a pop fly high High as a sunflower high High as the wild geese that home

Friend Of Mine John Hiatt

He could sing Like a child A mother's dream So sweet and mild Or big and mean Loud and wild This friend of mine His voice is still Like the night Rustling winds Of angel's flight Take him home

Meet Me Halfway John Hiatt

Love is a river that's running in the ???

Straight Outta Time John Hiatt

like a dream, do we let it die and drift away to sleep Until it screams like an echo in the history books you keep 'Cause that stream running from the corners of my mind Looking back I find like a river

Take Time To Know Her John Hiatt

love She was every thing I've ever been dreaming of But she was bare I wouldn't know it You see her pretty little smile didn't show it When I knew I could see that I wanted her for me I took her home

One Kiss John Hiatt

CHORUS: One kiss and we're on our own One kiss it can mean so much One kiss and we're almost home One kiss that's the final touch They shot that Galileo off to Jupiter We'll have some pictures

Wild Eyed Gypsies John Hiatt

, serve me up another Just one more, man Then I'm goin' home No, pal We're just as crazy as all the others One more wild-eyed gypsy Who lives alone. REPEAT CHORUS REPEAT CHORUS

Death By Misadventure John Hiatt

Well, Harry had a good job working' for the Secret Service He had a wife and kids at home who made him awful nervous He'd never done a damn thing you could call experimental And he had this aching

Death By Misadventure (Album Version) John Hiatt

Well Harry had a good job working' for the Secret Service He had a wife and kids at home who made him awful nervous He'd never done a damn thing you could call experimental And he had this aching feeling

New Numbers John Hiatt

gave you your papers You just stuck around Now I wanna make a scene Interrupt your magazine You're all so tucked in and tapered I'd only let you down REPEAT CHORUS I took the last train home

Heaven Help Us All John Hiatt

Heaven help the child that ain't got a home Heaven help him who walks the streets alone Give him up the roses the mouths begin to foam Heaven help us all Heaven help the blind man that suffers

Gonna Go Our And Love Somebody John Hiatt

You been doing me wrong you been telling me lies Some other man been putting that look in your eye You been coming home all rearranged Someone's been picking your peaches and messing with your terrain

She Said The Same Things To Me (Album Version) John Hiatt

nice car Ooh yes I do babe And are you goin' far All the way if you want to Are you man enuff for me Oh yes I am all nite all nite Once you get her out the door She just wants you to take her home

Let It All Go John Hiatt

You know the pain doesn't end CHORUS: You got to... let it all go Oh, you got to... let it all go Talkin' about let it all go So it don't burn a hole In your heart I knew a girl who Left home

Girl On A String John Hiatt

little bad boy Girl on a string, hes dragging her around Girl on a string, hes tying her down She carries his baby straddled on her hipbone And theres another on the way, just wait till they get home

Girl On A String (Album Version) John Hiatt

string for a little bad boy Girl on a string hes dragging her around Girl on a string hes tying her down She carries his baby straddled on her hipbone And theres another on the way just wait till they get home

New Numbers (Album Version) John Hiatt

You're all so tucked in and tapered I'd only let you down 'Cause I've got New numbers don't understand New numbers I'm gettin' out of hand New numbers countin' on me for New numbers I took the last train home

She Loves the Jerk John Hiatt

Nights when he drinks at home, she has to whisper throught her tears. "Johnny," she says, "you'd never do these things to me." But I can never make her see he's wasted such precious years.

Singing the Blues John Hiatt

I knocked on your door The dog let me in Well, he was so happy To see me again The news is not good The news is not bad Ty TV blew up And the president is mad I'm glad you were home It's

The Other Side John Hiatt

backstreets looking for my family But to my hunger and shame and degradation the past went away from me Like my father before me had written the little that he left behind Men lie, men may die Goodbye, John