Iris Dement songs lyrics

Well, it got so hot last night I swear you couldn't hardly breathe Heat lightning burned the sky like alcohol I sat on the porch without my shoes ...

I will twine and will mingle my raven black hair With the roses so red and the lilies so fair And the myrtle so bright with an emerald hue The...

At my door the leaves are falling and a cold, wild wind soon will come Sweethearts walk by together and I still miss someone Well, I never got...

Living in the wasteland of the free... We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines and their speech is growing increasingly unkind ...

On the wings of a snow-white dove He sends His pure sweet love A sign from above On the wings of a dove When Noah had drifted on the flood many...

I'm out to try my hand at love again and I'll be picking differently than the way I picked back then To demand amore ain't such a sin So I'm out...

When the train pulls in the station you'll be waiting at the track You're having troubles sleeping nights and you want me to come back That old...

My love stood under a walnut tree Over the garden wall She whispered and said she'd be true to me Over the garden wall She had beautiful eyes...

I've been throwin' horseshoes over my left shoulder I spent most all my life searchin' for that four-leaf clover Yet you ran with me chasin' my...

I went to church on Sunday, I swung my chariot low Reached up to kiss the deacon, he said "You'd better go" Trouble, I'm in trouble with him ...

Sometimes I feel discouraged And I think my works in vain I'm tempted oft(en) to murmur To grumble and complain But then I think of Jesus And all...

A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the night An Autumn leaf was scraping against my window like it was trying hard to get...

CHORUS: And ya know the sun's setin' fast And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts Go on now and kiss it goodbye But hold on to your lover...

Let me walk, blessed Lord, in the way Thou hast gone, Leading straight to the land above; Giving cheer everywhere to the sad and the lone, Fill my...

By a fountain back in Rome I fell in love with you In a small cafe in Athens you said you loved me too And it was April in Paris when I first held...

There'll be laughter even after you're gone. I'll find reasons to face that empty dawn. 'Cause I've memorised each line in your face, And not...

When I first come to this country in Eighteen and Forty-nine I saw many fair lovers but I never saw mine I viewed it all around me, saw I was quite...

No use crying, talking to a stranger, naming the sorrow you've seen Too many bad times, too many sad times Nobody knows what you mean Chorus: ...

Sweet forgiveness, Thats what you give me, When you hold me close, and you say, "Thats all over" You dont go looking back, You dont hold the...

My life, it don't count for nothing. When I look at this world, I feel so small. My life, it's only a season: A passing September that no one will...