by Iris DeMent on album True Grit

*LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS What a fellowship of what a joy divine Leaning on the everlasting arms What a blessedness what a peace of mind Leaning on the everlasting arms (chorus) Leaning, leani

by Iris DeMent on album Go On Ahead and Go Home

Go on ahead and go home Go on ahead and go home Boy, you've done your best Time you took your rest in the sheltering loam Go on ahead and go home Go on ahead and go home The spirits of the dead will m

by Iris DeMent on album Rocks Off: 16 Tracks of the Best New Music

Before the colors fade from view I sit alone remembering you And all those things you'd say and do And the feel of being next to you The angles of your sweet, old face The voice that filled my life wi

by John Prine feat. Iris DeMent on album In Spite Of Ourselves

by John Prine feat. Iris DeMent on album In Spite Of Ourselves

I know why you're lonely And I know why you're blue You're lonesome to see him And you long to see her too We're not in love with each other We're in love with our best friends So let's invite them ov

by John Prine feat. Iris DeMent on album Rolling Stone: New Voices, Volume 31

She don't like her eggs all runny She thinks crossin' her legs is funny She looks down her nose at money She gets it on like the Easter Bunny She's my baby I'm her honey I'm never gonna let her go He

by Iris DeMent feat. Delbert McClinton on album The Way I Should

I went to church on Sunday, I swung my chariot low Reached up to kiss the deacon, he said " You'd better go" Trouble, I'm in trouble with him Trouble's where I'm going Trouble's the only place I've ev

by Iris DeMent on album NPR Studio Cuts, Volume 1

I've been throwin' horseshoes over my left shoulder I spent most all my life searchin' for that four-leaf clover Yet you ran with me chasin' my rainbows I love you too that's the way love goes That's

by Josh Turner on album Punching Bag

She left me in the darkness all alone She abandoned all the good times And the love I thought we had I'm like a lonesome pallbearer Walking down the aisle Traveling to the graveyard Counting down the

by Josh Turner feat. Iris DeMent & Marty Stuart on album Punching Bag

She left me in the darkness all alone She abandoned all the good times and the love I thought we had I'm like a lonesome pallbearer walking down the aisle Travelling to the graveyard, counting down t

by John Prine feat. Iris DeMent on album In Person & On Stage

In an Appalachian, Greyhound station She sits there waiting, in a family way "Goodbye brother, Tell Mom I love her Tell all the others, I'll write someday" From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother K

by Iris DeMent on album Live In Our Town - Live At The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley Ca 9Th July 1992 (Remastered)

Twelve-hundred miles, it's length and breadth That four-square city stands It's gem-set walls of jasper shine They're not made by human hands One-hundred miles, it's gates are wide Abundant entrance

by Iris DeMent on album Live In Our Town - Live At The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley Ca 9Th July 1992 (Remastered)

Well, I've heard them say there's one for everybody And I just knew somehow that you'd be the one for me 'Cause making love with you's not just a hobby No, it's the flame that burnt the forest down in

by Iris DeMent on album Live In Our Town - Live At The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley Ca 9Th July 1992 (Remastered)

Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by. It's so hard to make every note bend just right. You lay down the hours and leave not one trace, But a tune for the dancing is there in it's place. Well, the

by Iris DeMent on album Live In Our Town - Live At The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley Ca 9Th July 1992 (Remastered)

Well, I looked up into heaven, I thought I'd solve life's mysteries. I observed the constellations for a clue to my destiny. But the rhyme of life confounds me, things will be as things will be. So I'

by Iris DeMent on album Live In Our Town - Live At The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley Ca 9Th July 1992 (Remastered)

Well, you told me that you wished that things had not, Turned out this way. You never thought there'd come a time, When you would go away. But you stayed right here beside me, Even when the love was g

by Iris DeMent on album Live In Our Town - Live At The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley Ca 9Th July 1992 (Remastered)

Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go When the whole thing's done But no one knows for certain And so it's all the same to me I thi

by Iris DeMent on album Live In Our Town - Live At The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley Ca 9Th July 1992 (Remastered)

And you know the sun's settin' fast, And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts. Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye, But hold on to your lover, 'Cause your heart's bound to die. Go on now and sa

by Iris DeMent on album Live In Our Town - Live At The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley Ca 9Th July 1992 (Remastered)

I'd walk for miles, cry and smile for my mama and daddy I want them, I want them to know How I feel, my love is real for my mama and daddy I want them to know I love them so In my heart, joy tears st

by Iris DeMent on album Live In Our Town - Live At The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley Ca 9Th July 1992 (Remastered)

My life, it don't count for nothing When I look at this world, I feel so small And my life, it's only a season A passing September that no one will recall But I gave joy to my mother And I made my lo