I'm a black woman. My husband is a white Irish American man, We often played Nanci's songs as we had dinner at the table every night when they were little kids. I'm so proud to have exposed our kids to the beauty and unifying pleasures of music. Thank you and sweet peace, Nanci.
Amen to that, Rima, and well said. Beautifully said, in fact. I was privileged to see nanci at the Blue Mountains Music festival in Australia in 2010 - Rob Paul, Sapphire FM
Just heard the news, and it punched me in the stomach. Why do the best ones leave us too soon?? R.I.P. Nanci. An angel, once on earth, now in Heaven. x
Me too. I just turned on the computer after my walk and saw the news and felt that punch in my gut and my heart break. An angel that touched my heart and soul. R.I.P Nanci.
I've been listening to Nanci for decades now and I consider this to be one of the most important songs ever written by anyone. I just read a couple of posts and there seems to be some discord regarding the lyrics. Get over it and listen to the message, not the lyrics. "...and if we poison our children with hatred, a hard life is all that they'll know." My god, no truer words were ever spoken, perhaps with the exception of "all you need is love". Peace my Brothers & Sisters the doctor
30+years ago my friend called me and just said "Listen" and held his phone by his speakers. I heard Nanci singing this and I cried. My friend gave me a tape and I cried when I heard this song, every damn time. My friend is dead now, and so is Nanci, and I still cry.
I too was a child of the Sixties. Disney, Cronkite and Martin Luther K - and I believed, I believed, I believed. It's becoming more and more difficult to believe. Farewell Nancy. I hope you're in a better world.
I am killed. The music industry lost one of the most unique talents ever to grace a stage. Nanci was such a heartfelt performer and she did it with such ease and confidence. I was blessed to see her perform a couple of times in concert and my heart is just broke to hear of her passing. Rest in peace, Nanci. You and John both! You were truly one of a kind.
Such a powerful, powerful song. She was so talented, a fine songwriter and fine interpreter of other's songs. RIP Miss Nanci. So glad I got to see you perform.
I’m not usually a fan of country music, but this song moved me to the core of my being. This beautiful song could have been written today. We’ve learned nothing. From the comments, I see that this special soul has passed. I’ve just met her and I feel we lost a good one. RIP, kind Nancy.💙
I first heard this song here in Belfast so many years ago. It was true then - as it is now. Now we have brexit, rising nationalism and continuing social division. Surely we can regain the idealism we briefly held in the sixties? Maybe, just maybe, Covid 19 will bring us all together in the end...
I'm slightly surprised by how deeply the news of her passing has affected me. My memories of her and her music don't extend far beyond being a child of less than 10 with my younger sisters being driven around Donegal by my parents on, what seemed like, an endless summer holiday. My mother had the album Storms and the From a distance cover copied onto a tape that must have been played so often that it was worn out, as I have no memory of them ever playing it again. The song "It's a hard life wherever you go" with its references to children and the conflict back home in Belfast, that I was only beginning to process and understand at that age spoke to me at some basic fundamental level I still don't properly understand. It was dark yet light. Clear eyed but somehow unsentimentally hopeful. I was beguiled by her voice and the beauty of her words. I would sit in the car impatient for the tape to play right through so I could hear it again. I miss my sister's, my parents, my youth and the hope for a better future where I live which existed in the 90s but seems to have curdled into something unpleasant over the last 30 years. I shall miss Nanci too, but thank you for the song, the memories, the tears and the hope
Really sad about this. Her music was a big part of my childhood. This song is especially poignant as I grew up in Belfast during the troubles. I have so many memories associated with her music. What a talent and what a loss 😔 RIP Nanci Griffith. Gone too soon ❤️
It was this song that made me reexamine everything I was taught about other races and cultures. The first song of hers that I ever heard. I had to hear everything she sang after that. Devastated by her death. 68 is too young.
Janna, I am so glad to hear that this awesome song had such a powerful effect on you. I am devastated too. I hope the song gets played a lot in her honor.
I miss you this song has been on my mind a lot lately I wish we could have met but you touched my soul and heart many times I love your voice and conscience ❤
Devastated at the news of Nanci's death. A true genius and innovator. A good soul. Rest in peace, Nanci. You have seriously contributed to the cause of bringing peace here on Earth. God bless.
I will miss you so much. You and your music meant so much to me as a teen. I wish I could have seen you live when I had the chance. Thank you for the songs that got me through my loneliness. RIP 😔
Rest in peace 💗 thank you, for sharing your musical soul of pure beauty with us... offering us experiences of connection of the joy and the sorrow and the beauty in all of life! XO
As an intern with MCA Records, I had the great pleasure of meeting Nanci as I worked promoting One Fair Summer Evening - LIVE from the Anderson County Fair. Both she and Lyle Lovett were two of the classiest people I've had the pleasure of knowing! ~ So happy for my small part in their respective successes! Great video! ~ Happy Belated Birthday, Nanci Griffith! :-)
Very sad day for me.. A native of my hometown Seguin, Texas... We claim her even though she grew up in Austin, but her family was from here.. One of my favorite country - folk singers.. And this is my favorite song of hers..a great song to hear in the late evening.. Great video whoever put this together.. Also sad since I've seen her in person performing several times in the city I've called home more than any other - - Austin, Texas... She will be missed for sure..
Nanci really was a unique voice...vocally and lyrically...she was very ahead of her time. In fact, with her death we might just now understand and appreciate what she was doing..
A shining light has left this world but she leaves behind a legacy of truth, love and gentleness, that we can be inspired by to do the same. From a fellow songwriter. RIP Nancy. ❤️💐🙏🏽
Saw Nanci so many times at Anderson Fair in Houston. Lyle Lovett was often her opening act. So many lovely evenings in a small intimate room. Miss her so much.
Just love Nanci she's one of the truly great singer songwriters and doesn't get the credit she deserves! I've played her CD's to death if they were LP's they would be shot
I've often tried to sing this song and I cant get through it without my eyes filling up with tears and my voice breaking up.. RIP Nanci I'll always miss you.
Like others here here, I was very unhappy that Nanci died so young, 68. She's only the second celebrity whose passing make me so sad; the other was John Lennon murdered in 1980. I only saw and heard Nanci "From a Distance" but I had a crush on her unlike any other lady at a distance.
Happy birthday Sweet Nanci! It's 6 July 2015 and I'm just sending my far away kind thoughts and Love on Your Special Day! God Bless You Always my friend! (I'll always be grateful for you buying me and our mutual friend TS dinner at the Philly Folk Festival last time you played there. That was so sweet and kind of you. I'm so glad I got you to say hello to the legendary John Hartford a few months before he passed away)
And here we are in 2023. Nanci is gone, and the United States is increasingly divided and filled with hatred. It's a hard life indeed. I am thankful to be old with one foot in the grave never to see what happens next.
August 1, 2012 -- we still poison our children with hatred. It's a hard life here in America and yet we keep planting the seeds of hatred in the most innocent of places. And the children watch and learn to hate. I am the backseat driver watching people flock to a particular fast food chain all because they expressed their judgement against others....and the throngs support them...it's a hard life wherever you go. Peace everyone...
I'll never forget when I saw you play live at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia back in the 90s. Was a teenager at the time and was belting out song lyrics along with you with a huge smile on my face. You made eye contact and smiled at my joyful energy. Thank you for your beautiful music over the years and for this, my favorite of your songs, which brings tears to my eyes every time. You were brimming with love and compassion and it shines thru your music. You're singing with the angels now, my dear, God bless your sweet soul...
I am shocked and amazed at the outpouring of sadness and loss at this wonderful artist. And yet thinking about it, a part of me is not amazed. I discovered Nanci's music at a particularly hard time in my life. Working very hard to pay a large debt, and not able to spend ANY money on anything as frivolous as music, but being a total music junkie of almost all genre, I was saved by a suggestion of a friend that I use my library card and check out some new music from the library. I went to the library assuming I would be embarking on a study of old dusty classical music albums, but hey, it would be something new to listen to. Amazed to find that the library was actually lending out CDs of artists actually born after 1900, my eyes came upon the cover of One Fair Summer Evening. Intrigued by the interesting cover, I selected it and placed it in my pile. I took home my selections, and popped OFSE in my cd player and started cleaning and straightening my apartment. A few bars into the first number, I had to stop and just listen. I felt my cares melt away as I got to know the characters in her songs, and heard her angelic but still somehow human voice sing meaningful, beautiful, and heart touching lyrics. I started to cry during the last song,"Love at the Five and Dime". I played the album for guests then next night and there wasnt a dry eye.. I discovered a few years ago when my assistant decided she could take no more and had to alphabetize and index my music collections, that Nanci took up more shelf space than any modern artist. I discovered this week how dreadfully much I will miss her presence on earth.
This song WAS Nanci Griffith to me when I first heard it 20 some years ago...it is still as applicable as it was back when my children were children. Thanks for posting.
i am Scottish and i relate to all of Nanci's songs, she is from a cosmoplitan ancestry as he sang in " On the road to Aberdeen"...btw I am from the Hebrides and we sound Irish lol
Beautiful! One of my favourite musical artists. Loved her music. Anyone aware of the WHF Channel here on YT? In long form the title is: What's Her Face. Look it up. As far as I am aware Ms WHF is a Canadian lady. From the moment I saw one of the WHF Channel videos there was an intense familiarity with the lady's face. Well, I do believe I now have the answer because in my humble opinion there is an incredibly similarity in appearance between the WHFC lady and Nancy Griffith. Well done Nancy. Gorgeous music. 😉👍👏👏🙏
I remember when I picked up this album. As a young Naval Officer, I had completed a mission in Honduras just north of the Nicaraguan border. We had helped an orphanage with over 60 children who had only 11 toothbrushes between them. We spent a month & renovated the orphanage & provided the kids with medical supplies toys and scholastic materials. We had some money to give the Nuns to help provide for the kids, but the Nuns refused, telling us that the Honduran Army was waiting for us to leave, so they could take the things we had provided to the orphans, for their own children. I was struck at the cruelty of a government that would predate on the helpless people they were supposed to be protecting & felt the powerlessness of the situation. This song really resonated with me & still does.
How you soared on earth and your heart and wings will soar in heaven. So love you and your gift with words and music…. So much a part of my life and heart 💜 Rest In Peace beautiful one….
That happened to me today. What a song. And I'm not usually all that big on videos, but I like this one almost as much as the song. Also, Nanci is looking especially beautiful here
Rob Reinhart (Acoustic Cafe) interviewed her after other rooms other voices came out - he asked her what song of hers she thought would mean the most to her to have covered in a similar way - it was this one ...RIP
I am a child of the ‘60’s, marched on Washington and was actually in Belfast for a week during the Troubles. A magnificent, true and frightening song-I AM actually guilty for our currently terrifying society and culture and I too am no longer at the wheel and, yes, I can’t steer our National “car” because everything DOES seem like it’s on the wrong side of the road. What a song. I pray daily the God will spare us as there IS no place for us to go. Bob
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I'm a black woman. My husband is a white Irish American man,
We often played Nanci's songs as we had dinner at the table every night when they were little kids.
I'm so proud to have exposed our kids to the beauty and unifying pleasures of music.
Thank you and sweet peace, Nanci.
God bless you both
What a lovely thing to share, thank you.❤️☮️
Gay
…”and he’s the only trash here I see”…
Diversity is a beautiful part of the human family eh? Nanci put on a GOOOD show.
Nancy , dear beloved Nancy , there’s a light beyond these woods . Rest in sweet peace , you gorgeous soul .
The most lovely tribute. Thank you Rima ❤️
Beautiful Rima, no truer words. The news floored me.....
Amen to that. One of the more powerful songs written. The world will miss her
It’s probably her natural TX accent, but I love how she emphasizes the word “Chicaaaaago” with, what sounds like a south side accent!
Amen to that, Rima, and well said. Beautifully said, in fact. I was privileged to see nanci at the Blue Mountains Music festival in Australia in 2010 - Rob Paul, Sapphire FM
Just heard the news, and it punched me in the stomach. Why do the best ones leave us too soon?? R.I.P. Nanci. An angel, once on earth, now in Heaven. x
Me too. I just turned on the computer after my walk and saw the news and felt that punch in my gut and my heart break. An angel that touched my heart and soul. R.I.P Nanci.
Me too. This one is hitting me super hard. I just loved her; her music got me through so much.
@@cristovaljesusamado8455 What reality do you live in?
Most people don't doe at that age!
@@cristovaljesusamado8455 really? My mother will be 95 in two weeks. Explain that.
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My mother will be 89 in Sept. Her mother lived to 100. I'm 70. I hope I've got at least a few more years. 😉
This was the first song of hers I ever heard.
Rest in peace, Nanci. You're going to be missed.
Me too. It came on TV and within an hour I had bought the album--one of the only albums I ever bought new. I still play it.
Same here. :(
Same. And then I promptly went out and purchased Storms and all of her other albums.
Same here. F**king sucks! The world needs more singer/song writers like her. She will be sorely missed
Me too.
I've been listening to Nanci for decades now and I consider this to be one of the most important songs ever written by anyone. I just read a couple of posts and there seems to be some discord regarding the lyrics. Get over it and listen to the message, not the lyrics.
"...and if we poison our children with hatred, a hard life is all that they'll know."
My god, no truer words were ever spoken, perhaps with the exception of "all you need is love".
Peace my Brothers & Sisters
the doctor
I’m so grieved to learn of her passing.
As a "child of the sixties" who once believed, tears are streaming down my face. Such a beautiful soul. Gone too soon.
@@mureka29 I was about to say the same thing! Born '85 here and so much hasn't really changed since the 90s.
And I believed, I believed, I believed. Heartbreaking that we never could change the world as we thought we could.
30+years ago my friend called me and just said "Listen" and held his phone by his speakers. I heard Nanci singing this and I cried. My friend gave me a tape and I cried when I heard this song, every damn time. My friend is dead now, and so is Nanci, and I still cry.
Rest in peace Nancy, It feel like I have just lost one of my best friends tonight!
Imma black male from a small town called jonesboro louisiana an i love her music i have this album my sister introduced me to this .
I too was a child of the Sixties. Disney, Cronkite and Martin Luther K - and I believed, I believed, I believed. It's becoming more and more difficult to believe. Farewell Nancy. I hope you're in a better world.
RIP Nancy: thank you for your artistry.
I am killed. The music industry lost one of the most unique talents ever to grace a stage. Nanci was such a heartfelt performer and she did it with such ease and confidence. I was blessed to see her perform a couple of times in concert and my heart is just broke to hear of her passing. Rest in peace, Nanci. You and John both! You were truly one of a kind.
One of your best songs ...you will be missed RIP
Rest in peace. Thank you for this beautiful, important, work. Sing with the angels.
Woke up to this awful, awful news. She was my soundtrack in the 1990s. This was probably the first song I heard from her. RIP, Nancy.
I agree, one of the most important songs ever written by anyone. Share it often!
Such a powerful, powerful song. She was so talented, a fine songwriter and fine interpreter of other's songs. RIP Miss Nanci. So glad I got to see you perform.
100% agree. In my opinion, one of the more powerful songs written in our generation. She will be sorely missed
I’m not usually a fan of country music, but this song moved me to the core of my being. This beautiful song could have been written today. We’ve learned nothing.
From the comments, I see that this special soul has passed. I’ve just met her and I feel we lost a good one. RIP, kind Nancy.💙
A wonderful talent taken from us far too soon. Rest peacefully Nanci 🙏
"This song just feels appropriate these days." Comment from 3 years ago. Dear dear
I first heard this song here in Belfast so many years ago. It was true then - as it is now. Now we have brexit, rising nationalism and continuing social division. Surely we can regain the idealism we briefly held in the sixties? Maybe, just maybe, Covid 19 will bring us all together in the end...
You would hope so Linda, I'm from N.I. too, people need to wise up
Such an observer and story teller. Rest in peace lovely lady ❤️
I'm slightly surprised by how deeply the news of her passing has affected me.
My memories of her and her music don't extend far beyond being a child of less than 10 with my younger sisters being driven around Donegal by my parents on, what seemed like, an endless summer holiday.
My mother had the album Storms and the From a distance cover copied onto a tape that must have been played so often that it was worn out, as I have no memory of them ever playing it again.
The song "It's a hard life wherever you go" with its references to children and the conflict back home in Belfast, that I was only beginning to process and understand at that age spoke to me at some basic fundamental level I still don't properly understand. It was dark yet light. Clear eyed but somehow unsentimentally hopeful. I was beguiled by her voice and the beauty of her words.
I would sit in the car impatient for the tape to play right through so I could hear it again.
I miss my sister's, my parents, my youth and the hope for a better future where I live which existed in the 90s but seems to have curdled into something unpleasant over the last 30 years.
I shall miss Nanci too, but thank you for the song, the memories, the tears and the hope
Really beautiful words.
Really sad about this. Her music was a big part of my childhood. This song is especially poignant as I grew up in Belfast during the troubles. I have so many memories associated with her music. What a talent and what a loss 😔 RIP Nanci Griffith. Gone too soon ❤️
It was this song that made me reexamine everything I was taught about other races and cultures. The first song of hers that I ever heard. I had to hear everything she sang after that. Devastated by her death. 68 is too young.
Powerful. Beautiful song.
Janna, I am so glad to hear that this awesome song had such a powerful effect on you. I am devastated too. I hope the song gets played a lot in her honor.
No words needed, but what a loss.
"If we posion our children,with hatred,then a hard life is all that they'l now.
Posibbly the best lyric ever written.
Why do so many strive to cripple their own children? To prove to themselves that their prejudices are justified?
No matter what she sings, I hear it with tears in my eyes. She's been my favorite for a long time. She is timelesss to me.
Indeed. I start choking up the instant this songs starts. She's such a story teller. Timeless, for sure.
I always cry when I hear this song.
Yes, she's special for sure.
Me too. She’s just the best. ❤️
Same. Cry at the beginning of this song.
ive been listening to Nanci for 35 years and this song still makes me cry.
My heart just aches. Thank you Nanci for all the music and sharing your talents and sweet soul with us. RIP
I miss you this song has been on my mind a lot lately I wish we could have met but you touched my soul and heart many times I love your voice and conscience ❤
At peace now Nanci. Sending much love from Ireland ☘♥️
RIP Nanci you will be forever missed but not forgotten.
It will be a hard life without you, Nanci…RIP..
So sad to hear of her passing , so many lovely memories in her songs.
RIP, Nanci, creator of this, one of my very favorite songs from the first time I heard it. Your music is gorgeous and everlasting.
Devastated at the news of Nanci's death. A true genius and innovator. A good soul. Rest in peace, Nanci. You have seriously contributed to the cause of bringing peace here on Earth. God bless.
I will miss you so much. You and your music meant so much to me as a teen. I wish I could have seen you live when I had the chance. Thank you for the songs that got me through my loneliness. RIP 😔
Rest in peace 💗 thank you, for sharing your musical soul of pure beauty with us... offering us experiences of connection of the joy and the sorrow and the beauty in all of life! XO
RIP Nanci. You are gone but not forgotten.
As an intern with MCA Records, I had the great pleasure of meeting Nanci as I worked promoting One Fair Summer Evening - LIVE from the Anderson County Fair. Both she and Lyle Lovett were two of the classiest people I've had the pleasure of knowing! ~ So happy for my small part in their respective successes! Great video! ~ Happy Belated Birthday, Nanci Griffith! :-)
my sister said the same thing--she met her at a meet-and-greet and said she was delightful and very patient
Very sad day for me.. A native of my hometown Seguin, Texas... We claim her even though she grew up in Austin, but her family was from here.. One of my favorite country - folk singers.. And this is my favorite song of hers..a great song to hear in the late evening.. Great video whoever put this together.. Also sad since I've seen her in person performing several times in the city I've called home more than any other - - Austin, Texas... She will be missed for sure..
Nanci really was a unique voice...vocally and lyrically...she was very ahead of her time. In fact, with her death we might just now understand and appreciate what she was doing..
in tears....thanks for the beautiful music Nanci
A shining light has left this world but she leaves behind a legacy of truth, love and gentleness, that we can be inspired by to do the same. From a fellow songwriter. RIP Nancy. ❤️💐🙏🏽
Truly a beautiful angel singing about our world and how we all want a better world
It's just so beautiful. Hopefully, one day, it won't be hard
Tears of love and joy...we miss your tough sweetness so damn much.
truly devastated RIP Nanci
If ever there was a song appropriate for 2020. The blessed Nanci Griffith
I love this song. Farewell, Nancy. You were the best.
The most Angelic voice to ever grace the earth. Thank you Nancy for sharing your gift.
RIP Nanci. Powerful and beautiful song 😊🎶❤️😊🎶❤️. You will be missed
Saw Nanci so many times at Anderson Fair in Houston. Lyle Lovett was often her opening act. So many lovely evenings in a small intimate room. Miss her so much.
Nanci's songs got me through some very hard and lonely times, and they still do now. R.I.P Nanci.
Nanci.... "In pace requiescat et in amore".
Just love Nanci she's one of the truly great singer songwriters and doesn't get the credit she deserves! I've played her CD's to death if they were LP's they would be shot
From a Distance and this one are meant to be heard together. Thank you Nanci for you love and your spirit.
And Trouble in the Fields !!
I've often tried to sing this song and I cant get through it without my eyes filling up with tears and my voice breaking up.. RIP Nanci I'll always miss you.
I had never heard this. What a gut wrenching yet beautifully delivered song.
That's every song she sings.
NG just passed... I weep.
R.I.P Nanci the sweetest and most beautiful singer i ever seen
Like others here here, I was very unhappy that Nanci died so young, 68. She's only the second celebrity whose passing make me so sad; the other was John Lennon murdered in 1980. I only saw and heard Nanci "From a Distance" but I had a crush on her unlike any other lady at a distance.
RIP and Memory Eternal sing with the Angels…🙏☦️
Nanci blessed us for so many years. Fly away and rest forever our beautiful lady of song.
and 10 yrs later you're voice is still doing it. RIP Nanci
This song so apropos for today's times, thank you for all the beautiful songs, rest in peace.✝️
I’ve loved Nancy’s music since I first heard it in 1995 Soundtrack to many epic adventures. RIP my dear
Your songs will stay with us forever
Such deep, profound lyrics even in these modern times
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Right now this song needs to be sung from every mountain top!!!!
Happy birthday Sweet Nanci! It's 6 July 2015 and I'm just sending my far away kind thoughts and Love on Your Special Day! God Bless You Always my friend! (I'll always be grateful for you buying me and our mutual friend TS dinner at the Philly Folk Festival last time you played there. That was so sweet and kind of you. I'm so glad I got you to say hello to the legendary John Hartford a few months before he passed away)
Every time i hear an elevator ding ... I'll know another angel got her wings.
And here we are in 2023. Nanci is gone, and the United States is increasingly divided and filled with hatred. It's a hard life indeed. I am thankful to be old with one foot in the grave never to see what happens next.
Hail the Traveler!
just love this song, you will be missed, nancy
August 1, 2012 -- we still poison our children with hatred. It's a hard life here in America and yet we keep planting the seeds of hatred in the most innocent of places. And the children watch and learn to hate. I am the backseat driver watching people flock to a particular fast food chain all because they expressed their judgement against others....and the throngs support them...it's a hard life wherever you go. Peace everyone...
Rest in Power, Nanci.
😯 wow SO VERY TRUE
May 2024 🇭🇲
One of my favorite Nanci Griffith's tunes.
I'll never forget when I saw you play live at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia back in the 90s. Was a teenager at the time and was belting out song lyrics along with you with a huge smile on my face. You made eye contact and smiled at my joyful energy. Thank you for your beautiful music over the years and for this, my favorite of your songs, which brings tears to my eyes every time. You were brimming with love and compassion and it shines thru your music. You're singing with the angels now, my dear, God bless your sweet soul...
I am shocked and amazed at the outpouring of sadness and loss at this wonderful artist. And yet thinking about it, a part of me is not amazed. I discovered Nanci's music at a particularly hard time in my life. Working very hard to pay a large debt, and not able to spend ANY money on anything as frivolous as music, but being a total music junkie of almost all genre, I was saved by a suggestion of a friend that I use my library card and check out some new music from the library. I went to the library assuming I would be embarking on a study of old dusty classical music albums, but hey, it would be something new to listen to. Amazed to find that the library was actually lending out CDs of artists actually born after 1900, my eyes came upon the cover of One Fair Summer Evening. Intrigued by the interesting cover, I selected it and placed it in my pile. I took home my selections, and popped OFSE in my cd player and started cleaning and straightening my apartment. A few bars into the first number, I had to stop and just listen. I felt my cares melt away as I got to know the characters in her songs, and heard her angelic but still somehow human voice sing meaningful, beautiful, and heart touching lyrics. I started to cry during the last song,"Love at the Five and Dime". I played the album for guests then next night and there wasnt a dry eye..
I discovered a few years ago when my assistant decided she could take no more and had to alphabetize and index my music collections, that Nanci took up more shelf space than any modern artist. I discovered this week how dreadfully much I will miss her presence on earth.
This song WAS Nanci Griffith to me when I first heard it 20 some years ago...it is still as applicable as it was back when my children were children. Thanks for posting.
i am
Scottish and i relate to all of Nanci's songs, she is from a cosmoplitan ancestry as he sang in " On the road to Aberdeen"...btw I am from the Hebrides and we sound Irish lol
If we poison our children with hatred, then a hard life is all they will know. How true Nancy.
Beautiful! One of my favourite musical artists. Loved her music. Anyone aware of the WHF Channel here on YT? In long form the title is: What's Her Face. Look it up. As far as I am aware Ms WHF is a Canadian lady. From the moment I saw one of the WHF Channel videos there was an intense familiarity with the lady's face. Well, I do believe I now have the answer because in my humble opinion there is an incredibly similarity in appearance between the WHFC lady and Nancy Griffith.
Well done Nancy. Gorgeous music.
😉👍👏👏🙏
One of my favorites.Miss you Nanci. Gone too soon!
I remember when I picked up this album. As a young Naval Officer, I had completed a mission in Honduras just north of the Nicaraguan border. We had helped an orphanage with over 60 children who had only 11 toothbrushes between them. We spent a month & renovated the orphanage & provided the kids with medical supplies toys and scholastic materials. We had some money to give the Nuns to help provide for the kids, but the Nuns refused, telling us that the Honduran Army was waiting for us to leave, so they could take the things we had provided to the orphans, for their own children. I was struck at the cruelty of a government that would predate on the helpless people they were supposed to be protecting & felt the powerlessness of the situation. This song really resonated with me & still does.
Thanks for sharing Chris. Sorry you had to witness that.
Omg. That's heart breaking.
Oh Jesus help me, it’s been so long since I’ve heard this song. This world lost a light when you died, Nanci.
I've loved this song from the moment I heard it in 1989. Thank you.
Beloved Loved Missed Deeply ♥️🎶🌹
How you soared on earth and your heart and wings will soar in heaven. So love you and your gift with words and music…. So much a part of my life and heart 💜 Rest In Peace beautiful one….
Missing. Will be found in Heaven, with the Band...........
Just heard this for the first time today. Makes me wonder how many great songs are still out there for me to discover.
All of them.
I found her in a Library CD pile. IF you go to the library and pick out random CD's, you can find some hidden gems.
Many. I'm sure of this.
That happened to me today. What a song. And I'm not usually all that big on videos, but I like this one almost as much as the song. Also, Nanci is looking especially beautiful here
Rob Reinhart (Acoustic Cafe) interviewed her after other rooms other voices came out - he asked her what song of hers she thought would mean the most to her to have covered in a similar way - it was this one ...RIP
I hope it was a peaceful journey and an easy landing, Nanci. Thank you for your gifts. RIP
Rock On Nanci! You're still fucking awesome!
Thanks for sharing your song.
I am a child of the ‘60’s, marched on Washington and was actually in Belfast for a week during the Troubles. A magnificent, true and frightening song-I AM actually guilty for our currently terrifying society and culture and I too am no longer at the wheel and, yes, I can’t steer our National “car” because everything DOES seem like it’s on the wrong side of the road. What a song. I pray daily the God will spare us as there IS no place for us to go. Bob
Still love her voice. Dosen't hurt that she's so dang cute either......