by Greg Brown on album The Poet Game

[Chorus:] One wrong turn is all it takes And there ain't many signs - You only get a few breaks. Some get more. Some get less. One wrong turn leads to the next. The days go slow and the years go fast

by Greg Brown on album Bathtub Blues

Tuna is tired, the seahorse is sleepy, The hammerhead's not feeling well. The catfish is yawning- It's lights-out time Down at the Sea Hotel.

by Greg Brown on album Slant 6 Mind

Spring and what's left of the hippies return from old rooming houses and Mexico. More letters, more journals, more poems to burn; Real heat at last. At last my words glow. My friend Jim just broke up

by The Greg Foat Group on album Dark Is The Sun

by Greg Brown on album Honey In The Lion's Head

I never will marry I'll be no man's wife I intend to stay single For the rest of my life One day as I wandered Down by the seashore The wind it did whistle And the waters did roar I heard a poor mai

by Greg Brown on album Over And Under

Betty Ann, Betty Ann, marry me while you can. It's the appointed hour, let us make haste. Them things is knockin', honey, down around your waist. As it happens, tonight I'm somewhat 'faced. Betty Ann,

by Greg Brown on album One More Goodnight Kiss

Now the railroad came generations ago And the town grew up as the crops did grow The crops grew well and the town did too They say it's dyin now and there ain't a thing we can do I don't have to read

by Greg Brown on album Down In There

There's a girl standing on a red mud road Looking up at Legel's Hill She has never been much farther than that But she knows someday she will Hillbilly girl - a big big world She is strumming on a c

by Greg Brown on album Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience

I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen; A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over

by Greg Brown on album Dream Café

I don't wanna be the one, To make you worry, oh no. I don't wanna be the one, To make you cry. I just wanna be the one, To see you happy, oh yeah, Even if I gotta be the one, To say goodbye. Oh well,

by Greg Brown on album One More Goodnight Kiss

Me and my brother saw an awful thing Comin' up outta the river A hot night in June We ran back to the porch And Daddy wiped his brow and said, "Boys, that's just the Mississippi Moon" My brother said

by Greg Brown on album The Evening Call

We came out of the country and drove into the cityscape - Like every other one in America, it's a black and white town. You were sitting beside me, neither of us in good shape, Leaning on one another

by Greg Brown on album The Poet Game

I said I'd never come to this ugly old hotel again. Baby, here I am. I said I'd never knock again on # 22 Baby, how are you? Some nights something grabs you and you don't even know what it is. Give

by Greg Brown on album In The Dark With You

Where's my love Where's my lover In the water In the water Where do the boys go When the fish ain't bitin In the water In the water Don't swim too far Always have a buddy In the water In the water

by Greg Brown on album Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience

I dreamt a dream! What can it mean? And that I was a maiden Queen Guarded by an Angel mild: Witless woe was ne'er beguiled! And I wept both night and day, And he wiped my tears away; And I wept both

by Greg Giraldo on album Midlife Vices

by Greg Brown on album Milk Of The Moon

I'm a slow boy, I take it easy I poke around, I'm a little lazy I don't get loud, I don't get shook Sit over in the corner and write in my notebook But I get a little excited, I get a little excited I

by Greg Brown on album The Poet Game

We closed that bar and we closed that town. The sun looked different coming up than it did going down. That was long ago - do you still love me or do you hate me? I wouldn't know - I haven't seen you

by Greg Brown on album One More Goodnight Kiss

The children are crying The dead leaves are flying The rain and the world news Fall in the abyss Nothin' we can do `bout nothin'. Please will you, Give me one more goodnight kiss The new phone sounds

by Greg Brown on album The Evening Call

I had my fun, my fun had me And from beneath her parasol She says "goodbye, old used to be - Get ready for the evening call." She has grown cold, but how warm she was - The morning lawn writes histor