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Artist/Band: Nanci Griffith
Lyrics for Song: John Philip Griffith
Lyrics for Album: There's A Light Beyond These Woods [1990]



He was a simple man only to a stranger.

And the kindness in his eyes

I still remember.

Now that he is old,

They say he's angry and he's cold,

That his soul is dying.



He's a wealthy man's dream,

And he's a working man's dime.

He has stood in both men's shoes

In his own damn time.

The hard times of the thirties

Still linger in his mind

When he is lonely.

He's out there in the cold,

Twenty years away from home.

Does he dream about his old home

In San Antone?

He's often watched the highways,

But he's a man of sixty-five.

Where ain't a soul in El Paso

Who would give an old drunk a ride.



Now, he traded in his draftsman's pen

For a fishing pole.

And his mansion on the hill

Is an alley in El Paso.

The anchors of the fifties

Still hold to broken dreams

When his sorrows grow.



He's out there in the cold,

Twenty years away from home.

Does he dream about his old home

In San Antone?

He's often watched the highways,

But he's a man of sixty-five.

There ain't a soul in El Paso

Who would give an old drunk a ride.



Now, they tell me that John Philip

Loved to gamble in his day.

And he burned his bridges well

When he walked away.

He closed those corporate doors,

Left his children and his home

Now no one owns him.


Album Lyrics: There's A Light Beyond These Woods [1990]


Nanci Griffith
"There's A Light Beyond These Woods [1990]"


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