Biography:
Nanci Caroline Griffith, born July 6, 1953, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas, United States. Her career has spanned a variety of musical genres, predominantly country and folk, and what she terms "folkabilly."
She won a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for Other Voices, Other Rooms, an album of Griffith covering the songs of artists who influenced her.
Her best-known song is From a Distance, by Julie Gold
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Other songs:
- Drive-in Movies
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Love At The Five And Dime
- Across The Great Divide
- Anyone Can Be Somebodys Fool
- Ballad Of Robin Winter
- Banks Of The Pontchartrain
- Boots Of Spanish Leather
- Comin Down In The Rain
- Cradle Of The Interstate
- Daddy Said
- Drive In Movies
- Drive
- Ford Econoline
- Friend Out In The Madness
- From Clare To Here
- Goin Gone
- Going Back To Georgia
- Good Night New York
- Gulf Coast Highway
- I Dont Wanna Talk About Love
- If I Were A Child
- Im Not Drivin
- Its A Hard Life
- Late Night Grande Hotel
- Listen To The Radio
- Little Love Affairs
- Looking For The Time Workin Girl
- Loves Found A Shoulder
- Midnight In Missoula
- Montana Backroads
- More Than A Whisper
- Morning Song For Sally
- Never Mind
- Night Riders Lament
- Once In A Very Blue Moon
- Outbound Plane
- Speed Of The Sound Od Loneliness
- Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
- Spin On A Red Brick Floor
- Tecumseh Valley
- These Days In An Open Book
- This Heart
- This Old Town
- Trouble In The Fields
- Turn Around
- Walk Right Back
- Well Alright
- You Cant Go Home Again
- You Made This Love
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:36:04 EDT
From: Vinetip
Subject: g/griffith_nanci/ford_econoline.crd
"Ford Econoline" off of
Lone Star State of Mind, MCA records
Nanci Griffith
CAPO ON 2
Verse 1
C C
She drove west from Salt Lake City to the California coastline
C C G
She hit the San Diego Freeway doing sixty miles an hour
C
She had a husband on her bumper
C
She had five restless children
C C G C
She was singing sweet as a mockingbird in that Ford Econoline
Chorus:
F C
She's salt of the earth
G C
Straight from the bosom of the Mormon church
F C
With a voice like wine
G Bb
Cruising along in that Ford Econoline
Verse 2
C C
Now her husband was a gambler, he was a Salt Lake City rounder
C C C G
He built a golden cage around his silver throated wife
C C
Too many nights he left her crying with his cheating and lying
C C G C
But his big mistake was in buying her that Ford Econoline
Chorus
Instrumental Solo
Chorus
Verse 3
C
Now she sings her songs around this country
C
>From Seattle to Montgomery
C C
Those kids are grown and that rounder knows
C C G
You can not cage your wife
C
All on the back roads of our nation
C
She's become a living ledgend
C C
She drives a Coup DeVille but her heart rides still
G C
In that Ford Econoline
C C
She drives a Coup DeVille but her heart rides still
G C
In that Ford Econoline
C 032010
F 003211
G 320003
Bb133211
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the#
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.#
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:36:04 EDT
From: Vinetip
Subject: g/griffith_nanci/ford_econoline.crd
"Ford Econoline" off of
Lone Star State of Mind, MCA records
Nanci Griffith
CAPO ON 2
Verse 1
C C
She drove west from Salt Lake City to the California coastline
C C G
She hit the San Diego Freeway doing sixty miles an hour
C
She had a husband on her bumper
C
She had five restless children
C C G C
She was singing sweet as a mockingbird in that Ford Econoline
Chorus:
F C
She's salt of the earth
G C
Straight from the bosom of the Mormon church
F C
With a voice like wine
G Bb
Cruising along in that Ford Econoline
Verse 2
C C
Now her husband was a gambler, he was a Salt Lake City rounder
C C C G
He built a golden cage around his silver throated wife
C C
Too many nights he left her crying with his cheating and lying
C C G C
But his big mistake was in buying her that Ford Econoline
Chorus
Instrumental Solo
Chorus
Verse 3
C
Now she sings her songs around this country
C
>From Seattle to Montgomery
C C
Those kids are grown and that rounder knows
C C G
You can not cage your wife
C
All on the back roads of our nation
C
She's become a living ledgend
C C
She drives a Coup DeVille but her heart rides still
G C
In that Ford Econoline
C C
She drives a Coup DeVille but her heart rides still
G C
In that Ford Econoline
C 032010
F 003211
G 320003
Bb133211
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