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Artist/Band: Nanci Griffith
Lyrics for Song: Deadwood
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Nanci Griffith



Well, the good times scratched a laugh

From the lungs of the young men

In a Deadwood saloon, South Dakota afternoon

And the old ones by the door with their heads to their chests

They told lies about whiskey on a woman's breath



Yes, and some tell the story of young Mickey Free

Who lost an eye to a buck deer in the Tongue River Valley

Oh and some tell the story of California Joe

Who sent word through the Black Hills

'There was a mountain of gold'



And the gold she lay cold in their pockets

And the sun she sets down on the trees

And they thank the Lord for the land that they live in

Where the white man does as he pleases



Some flat shoed fool from the East comes a runnin'

With some news that he'd read in some St. Joseph paper

And it was "Drinks all around" 'cause the news he was tellin'

Was the one they called Crazy

Had been caught and been dealt with



And the Easterner he read the news from the paper

And the old ones gathered closer so's they could hear better

"And it says here that Crazy Horse was killed

While he was trying to escape

And it was some time last September and it don't give the exact date"



And the gold she lay cold in their pockets

And the sun she sets down on the trees

And they thank the Lord for the land that they live in

Where the white man does as he pleases

Where the white man does as he pleases



Then the talk turned back to whiskey and women

And cold nights on the plains, Lord, and fightin' those Indians

And the Easterner he says he'll have one more 'fore he goes

He gives the paper to the Crow boy

Who sweeps up the floor



And the gold still lay cold in their pockets

And the sun still sets down on their trees

And they thank the Lord for the land that they live in

Where the white man does as he pleases

Where the white man does as he pleases

Where the white man does as he pleases

As he wants to, as he pleases


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Nanci Griffith


Nanci Griffith
"Other Songs - Nanci Griffith"


1. Deadwood
2. 1937 Pre-War Kimball
3. Armstrong
4. Banks Of The Pontchartrain
5. Canadian Whiskey
6. Clock Without Hands
7. Cold Hearts / Closed Minds
8. Darcy Farrow
9. Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
10. Do-Re-Mi
11. Dress Of Laces
12. Fly By Night
13. Goin' Gone
14. Going Back To Georgia (With Adam Duritz)
15. Hard Times Come Again No More
16. He Was A Friend Of Mine
17. I Still Miss Someone
18. If I Had A Hammer
19. Last Of The True Believers
20. Looking For The Time
21. Love's Found A Shoulder
22. Midnight In Missoula
23. Our Very Own
24. Pearl's Eye View (The Life Of Dickey Chapelle)
25. Rise To The Occasion -W/ Mac Macannaly
26. Roses On The 4th Of July
27. Shaking Out The Snow
28. Speed Of The Sound Of Lonliness
29. Summer Wages
30. Tell Me How
31. Ten Degrees And Getting Colder
32. The Streets Of Baltimore
33. Truly Something Fine
34. Tumble And Fall
35. Two Dollar Novels
36. Walk Right Back
37. Wall Of Death
38. Wasn't That A Mighty Storm
39. Where Have You Been
40. Where Would I Be
41. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
42. Wings Of A Dove
43. Wouldn't That Be Nice
44. Yarrington Town
45. You Can't Go Home
46. You Were On My Mind
47. What's That I Hear
48. White Freight Liner