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 countryand folk, and what she terms " folkabilly." She won a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for , an album of Griffith covering the songs of artists who influenced her. Her best-known song is .
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Three Flights Up Lyrics
Nanci Griffith
We returned to that five room flat
Now it was empty and this the last time
Ther were blinking pictures
Of how we'd sit and chat
Some of them are scattered
Others shattered in my mind
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It was always three flights up
Cathedral bells kept time
In the winter, a-chatterin' cold
While the building shook like rageweed in the wind
Stories from the heat pipes
We were told
But now they only leave me
With a half-enchanted grin
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Bridge:
Bicycles squeezed down alley ways into view
And towels warmed on oven doors
To not freeze
Was the only thing to do
I wonder if we kept to the fair warning
'Cause I can see it in the flowers
Dyin' on the window sil
I know we must be out by tommorow mornin'
But am I goin' 'gainst my will
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Bridge
Repeat last verse
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