by Anaïs Mitchell on album Xoa

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Xoa

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Xoa

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Young Man In America

Be it work or be it rite? Father, tell me Brings us to the mountainside Every day a dying day Be it work or be it rite Oh my sweet babe We come to make a sacrifice Every day a dying day Be it ox or b

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Young Man In America

Be it work or be it rite? Father, tell me Brings us to the mountainside Every day a dying day Be it work or be it rite Oh my sweet babe We come to make a sacrifice Every day a dying day Be it ox or b

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Brightness

summer went the way of spring winter's waiting in the wings and we haven't saved anything but that's alright cause we already paid the rent there's still some money we haven't spent go put on somethin

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Brightness

hey uncle louie, I wrote you a song I'm glad you got your heart out of pawn I'm glad you got your king out of check at least that's how things stood when I saw you last it was New Orleans before the

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Brightness

when we came we came through the cold we came bearing gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh and there were trumpets playing there were angels looking down on a west bank town and he so loved the wo

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Brightness

if I can't keep it at least let me call it by name that was called falling this is called pain it's called love, what I'm losing I know love is a stranger I know that changes come I know love is a cha

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Brightness

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Brightness

I've worn out all of your records I've torn out page after page I have lain with the shadows you threw when you danced with the bright colored lights of the stage hey and aren't you grateful? say and

by Anaïs Mitchell on album The Brightness

just across from the hospital still in sight of the red lights s couple blocks from the orthodox church that's where the old poet lived in his eyeglasses and his necktie at the windows looking down on

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hymns for the Exiled

Turn that TV off now baby I'm so low I don't even sing Tell me something bout my country Tell me one good thing Cash and Elvis, Cain and Abel Down in Memphis trading hands Big girls dancing on the ta

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hymns for the Exiled

My daddy's house is the safest of houses He sealed up the windows so no air gets in And there's plenty of Campbell's, and beers in the basement In case we can't get to the store or something And my da

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hymns for the Exiled

It was late in July At the Quecreek coal mine When the water came rolling down As black as bad blood To where nine good men stood Shuddering, shivering And shouting for deliverance Sure they would dro

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hymns for the Exiled

One two three four five six seven The word came down to him from heaven And naked as an animal he knew Everything of flesh and bone He could call it all his own He could name it He could lay claim to

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hymns for the Exiled

You were dead when they found you On the floor of your apartment You were dead, and your drum set stood there Shining in the dark Shining like stage lights Shining like your eyes Shining like Orion in

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hymns for the Exiled

I'm a live wire I'm a short-wave radio Do you copy I'm a flash of light From the radar tower to the runway If I leave you Gonna do it semi automatically Do you blame me And you are so far Out there i

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Songs for Laura Volume One

Hush you little baby Don't you say a word Here comes the devil All dressed up like a mockingbird And if that mockingbird should try to Steal you off the ground Momma's gonna grab on tight And hold you

by Anaïs Mitchell on album Hymns for the Exiled

I could tell you stories like the government tells lies Oh, but no one listens any more In the rooms the women come and go Talking on the mobile phones And the television talks about the war When I w