This is a lady who was born, lived and died and I'd never even heard of her. It was simply a random story of her death that brought me to her videos. Over the past few days I've played her tracks and listened to interviews, and I can't help feeling I missed something very special in not knowing of her existence. This track takes us back to Nanci as a child. All so long ago and now long gone. Such a beautiful girl. RIP Nanci.
Same here! I've been falling in love with her for a couple weeks, and learned some of her songs. What if mainstream radio responded to talent instead of sales?
Reading these beautiful comments tonight when Nanci’s death has been announced. These songs have meant so much to so many people. What a wonderful life and legacy x
I am near 80 now and sadly missed Nanci when she was popular. I lived in Texas then but did not know about her then. Much later I would discover her on TH-cam. I have been listening to her now for 30 years, even if I missed those first years. Magic, I tell you. Not properly recognized for the legend she is.
Telluride in the 80's,I adore her.jus heard she passed what planet am I on? Anyhow,new years eve,Telluride,the Sheridan Opera house,long drive in ice,fabulous,so thankfull for these songs I play them and connect to her spirit!wish I could finger pick like she does.our planet is more beautiful because of her words smith tunes!
I am Heartbroken. I went to the funeral today for one of my best friends for 40 years and then heard this news. Love them both forever and glad to have her music forever. She will always be there for me through her music. R.I.P. Nanci
I am so sorry for your loss. Best friends for 40 years...I have one of those and would be devastated. My heart goes out to you. And yes, goodbye Nancy. I love her music...
Crying listening to this tonight. Her music is tinged with sadness and yet, her voice is such a comfort. Rest in peace, Nanci. Your music has been a gift to so many. ❤️
You’ve summed it up to perfection. This song makes me cry every time. Also, let me add, “It’s not the way you hold me when the sun goes down, noooooo; it’s not the way you call my name that left me stranded on the ground.” Also, if anyone ever called me baby the way it’s said in, “ If I were the woman you wanted, BABY, I would not be the woman I am, “ I’d be a goner.
manchesterblue2007 Yes, she does. No one, and I mean NO ONE, tells a true story about love, life and the obstacles you face in either, with more TRUTH and HUMANITY. I LOVE Nanci Griffith with everything I have and ever will have. ♥️
🌲🪕🎻 1980s Bluegrass festival up in Grass Valley… quiet warm twilight evening and you sang this beautiful song to us Nanci. My 7 year old son wrapped in my arms on our ground quilt, he was completely absorbed in your song about Mary-Margaret. When you finished he looked at me with his big ‘ol seal eyes and said “mama, I want to sing that song when I grow up”. Thank you Navi for a beautiful night in the trees and your wonderful stories and music. Take flight, you are free dear woman🦋
My wife and I heard her sing this at the Birchmere a couple of weeks after her friend Mary Margaret passed away. There were two hundred people in tears by the time she finished. This was easily the most memorable song I've ever heard performed live.
Beyond sad that we lost Nanci so young.😭 I recall vividly browsing the used vinyl LPs at Cheepo Records In St. Paul looking for any obscure Minneapolis Sound or New Jack Swing or Prince bootleg treasure and hearing this song from her live album “One Fair Summer Evening” over the store’s speakers. It was love at first sound. One of the most angelic voices in music history. She blew the doors open to my love of folk/female singer-songwriter music (first sparked by Joni). Soon after, Lilith Fair artists would be the rage and I leaned into Melissa Etheridge, Michelle Shocked, Shawn Colvin, Paula Cole, Sheryl Crow, Rosanne Cash, Jann Arden, and later Mary Chaplin Carpenter, Jewell, Alanis and my most favorite Allison Krauss. RIP Nanci. And yes, there is a light beyond these woods Mary Margret (and "nobody likes to live too close to Lubbock").
Many years ago on a Nanci Griffith mailing list mostly in Philadelphia, she was called "our poet." She was a poet, a songwriter, and a singer, and yet she mostly said she was a guitar player. She captured something elemental many of us could feel. Nanci never knew me, but she was my friend.
I discovered Nanci Griffith on a ride through the Colorado Red Rocks with new friends when I was a very young man. She’s accompanied me on a lot of journeys through my life. My heart is broken, but I think we’ll keep riding together for a while.
I met Nanci when we were both playing at the Hole in the Wall. She played Sunday nights and I played Saturday nights. Over the years we became friends but both being Cancers born in the same year a day a part we had a strained friendship. One day I walked in to her kitchen and she played a song for me she had just finished, it was this one. A fiery Irish girl who could drink any man under the table. I cry every time I hear this song. I can see her giving hell to those angels in heaven. She had one he'll of guitar style and a voice like an Angel from Montgomery, You left to soon Nanci!!
So sad. ..what a loss but we are graced by the joy of her music....I spent decades painting to her music in my studio and dancing...gonna put those albums all on again and start dancing to her amazing spirit and music.....thank you Nanci may you be singing in the Ever Present...........
This song always makes me cry in memory of my late sister Margaret who passed to young. She would have loved my husband had she ever met him. Love this song.
Timeless, I remember when I first discovered the 'light beyond the Woods' album in my local record shop. I liked the cover so I brought it. I was eighteen. It tought me to listen to the stories in the lyrics of songs.I'm 51 now and still listen to the stories in every song . Thank you Nannci :)
I’m 55... I ‘discovered’ Nanci Griffith when I was 20 and she opened for Emmylou at The Capitol Theatre in Concord. Emmylou was great but I remember thinking, “holy cow, what the heck was that?!” Nanci was an amazing experience there in the intimate, classic theatre stage. A “quiet show” in my recollection but she knocked everyone over- including me- with her powerful presence and musicianship.
Sometimes I think I love Nanci's beautiful introductions more than the songs themselves. Okay, not quite, but it's close. So much humanity here. Incredible.
the music must be so beautiful in Heaven, for most of my favorites singers and close friend's have gone, It's something how GOD works in our lives I saw the Johnny Cash show in the 70's, that was I first heard Johnny Cash sing Sam Stone. I became a John Prine fan, which later became a Nanci Griffith. Love at the Five and Dime, like Nanci I liked president Johnson. Thank you Nanci for giving us heaven on earth.
I have loved Nanci Griffith for too many years to count, but this song is special to me. When I first heard it I was struck by one line; a line that struck such a cord for it was almost a mini-soundtrack for my life. "Think that we will go there and see what makes it shine" . . . which seems to be what I have done for my whole life. There is always another light just beyond the hill and I seem to always have to go there to see what makes it shine. . .
I've been tearing up off-and-on since hearing the news yesterday. I wore out Nanci's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Flyer" CDs. The world lost a beautiful, gifted voice. R.I.P.
Your in that light now you beautiful, gorgeous, soul. And it has never shined brighter. Your music got me through the most difficult and challenging days of my 68 years and changed my life. A piece of me went with you, but then again you left me so much. I will love and miss you forever my dear friend. And thank You so much for introducing me to John Prine.GOD’s going to freak when you do “Speed of the sound of Lonliness for him
There are so many songs this woman sings that I adore, but this one will always stand out in my heart. I love this woman; if it wasn't for her...I would have never gotten through my teen years.
I share every word you have written! except that when I was young I didn't know Nanci.. I add that this song is a very few songs that at the same time makes me cry and laugh at my heart!
I love everything Nanci has recorded - As time goes by, I'm finding it more and more difficult to accept that there will be no more wonderful songs of lost love or life experience from her - It makes me very sad, but uplifted at the same time when I listen or watch her perform on video
I loved Nancy & her music & Songs for many years & it was strange but I never learned of her Passing until on holiday in the Land of my birth & Raising & where Nancy spent a lot of time living & Singing her lovely Songs Ireland & I was Sad but still Joyful as she had left this Phase she is in the Mainland with the Nazarene & Father Lord Jesus Christ Almighty 🙏💯🙏
PASSING OF A LEGEND The great, beautiful soul that was Nanci Griffith has flown into the eternal. I fell in love with her when I first saw this video back in 1987. I loved the fragile grace of her voice. I have loved her music ever since. Like many artists, I didn't share her political views (she was very left wing), but she was passionate and articulate with her beliefs. I have no problem with someone's political views (right or left) if they ground them in philosophy, ethics and faith. She was incensed at those who would take advantage of others -- regardless of the reason. She was sometimes filled with righteous anger and still her grace and love for her fellow man bled through in her face and in her words. Rest in peace Ms. Griffith. your music, your spirit will be missed. And yes, there IS a light beyond these woods.
Oh my. I've just 'discovered' Nancy Griffith and have now got to catch up on 30+ years of her music. I've generally avoided country music but everything I listen to of hers I love.
all about her is wonderful....I never tire of watching her.....She's such a joy......God creates such people to give us beauty and joy and love....thank you
I've been a huge fan of hers for decades, but I never listened to this song. What a haunting, reflective story. Oh man what a loss the world has suffered. Still hurts.
Jon-Francis, the first song of hers I ever heard was It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go & I thought, this is something special. I went out & bought One Fair Summer Evening & I fell in love with her & her music. It’s now one of my prized possessions. My heart breaks when I think of her passing, but we get to keep the music she left behind for us, and that’s a very good thing. I envy you, you get to discover her now.
Simple songs about life and relationships, songs that tell stories and fill our hearts and mines with imagination, a beautiful and innocent and all so sweet voice, it doesn't get any better than this.
Ii have Nanci Griffiths music for more than 25 years. Incredible songwriter. This song is more poignant, since Mary Margaret lost a battle to cancer before the Winter Marquee album was recorded. Nanci has had two bouts with cancer also.
Such a beautiful song. I'm a big fan, and have many, many of her CDs. I saw her on Austin City Limits in the late 1980s or early 1990s (can't recall when) and fell in love with her music. I wish ACL would release that performance.
Any girl who's ever had a best friend much be touched by this. And now i live 1600 km away from my best friend, and this song makes me cry. She's still my best friend. Thanks Nanci!
I think it’s my favorite Nanci’s song composition. This performance and this song touch my heart very hard. Beautiful singer, beautiful song. What a feeling..She singing with heart. LOVE.
This is a lady who was born, lived and died and I'd never even heard of her. It was simply a random story of her death that brought me to her videos. Over the past few days I've played her tracks and listened to interviews, and I can't help feeling I missed something very special in not knowing of her existence. This track takes us back to Nanci as a child. All so long ago and now long gone. Such a beautiful girl. RIP Nanci.
Maybe now she will get the superstar recognition that she deserved.
Like Jon , I never new her, now I feel I've missed so much.
I know, except I've been listening for years, although I feel the same way.
Same here. I heard her music on the KANU FM program called Trail Mix. What a crushing loss of talent.
Same here! I've been falling in love with her for a couple weeks, and learned some of her songs. What if mainstream radio responded to talent instead of sales?
Reading these beautiful comments tonight when Nanci’s death has been announced. These songs have meant so much to so many people. What a wonderful life and legacy x
Rest in peace Nancy, It feel like I have just lost one of my best friends tonight!
I feel the same way. The whole world is one candle darker.
Me too. She knew me better than maybe I know myself, and I don't think I'll find that again.
I am near 80 now and sadly missed Nanci when she was popular. I lived in Texas then but did not know about her then. Much later I would discover her on TH-cam. I have been listening to her now for 30 years, even if I missed those first years. Magic, I tell you. Not properly recognized for the legend she is.
Right on brother.
Telluride in the 80's,I adore her.jus heard she passed what planet am I on? Anyhow,new years eve,Telluride,the Sheridan Opera house,long drive in ice,fabulous,so thankfull for these songs I play them and connect to her spirit!wish I could finger pick like she does.our planet is more beautiful because of her words smith tunes!
So true!
Yes! 🥲
I am Heartbroken. I went to the funeral today for one of my best friends for 40 years and then heard this news. Love them both forever and glad to have her music forever. She will always be there for me through her music. R.I.P. Nanci
I am so sorry for your loss. Best friends for 40 years...I have one of those and would be devastated. My heart goes out to you. And yes, goodbye Nancy. I love her music...
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I agree, heart breaking!
Crying listening to this tonight. Her music is tinged with sadness and yet, her voice is such a comfort. Rest in peace, Nanci. Your music has been a gift to so many. ❤️
There are many sharing in those bittersweet tears. We're blessed to have been witness.
Totally agree. She was a powerful proponent of authentic lived experiences
I loved her too. Asked her to marry me once as a joke. Now wish I'd not been jesting.
She was is the greatest ever singer/ songwriter! So sad to hear of her passing!
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Nanci is standing by peaceful waters...... RIP girl!
I am so sad, I have just heard the news that the lovely Nanci has passed. She will always be one of my favorite singers/songwriters. RIP Nanci.
I just learned of her death, today, and feel the same way. Saddened me. I am 71 and have considered her a favorite for decades.
nanci steals your heart but gives you it back just before its too late
if you love this song it will love you right back
You’ve summed it up to perfection. This song makes me cry every time. Also, let me add, “It’s not the way you hold me when the sun goes down, noooooo; it’s not the way you call my name that left me stranded on the ground.” Also, if anyone ever called me baby the way it’s said in, “ If I were the woman you wanted, BABY, I would not be the woman I am, “ I’d be a goner.
First time i'm hearing this song. But I'm taken.
manchesterblue2007 Yes, she does. No one, and I mean NO ONE, tells a true story about love, life and the obstacles you face in either, with more TRUTH and HUMANITY. I LOVE Nanci Griffith with everything I have and ever will have. ♥️
Well said👍
🌲🪕🎻 1980s Bluegrass festival up in Grass Valley… quiet warm twilight evening and you sang this beautiful song to us Nanci. My 7 year old son wrapped in my arms on our ground quilt, he was completely absorbed in your song about Mary-Margaret. When you finished he looked at me with his big ‘ol seal eyes and said “mama, I want to sing that song when I grow up”. Thank you Navi for a beautiful night in the trees and your wonderful stories and music. Take flight, you are free dear woman🦋
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My wife and I heard her sing this at the Birchmere a couple of weeks after her friend Mary Margaret passed away. There were two hundred people in tears by the time she finished. This was easily the most memorable song I've ever heard performed live.
I would have been in tears too
Beyond sad that we lost Nanci so young.😭 I recall vividly browsing the used vinyl LPs at Cheepo Records In St. Paul looking for any obscure Minneapolis Sound or New Jack Swing or Prince bootleg treasure and hearing this song from her live album “One Fair Summer Evening” over the store’s speakers. It was love at first sound. One of the most angelic voices in music history. She blew the doors open to my love of folk/female singer-songwriter music (first sparked by Joni). Soon after, Lilith Fair artists would be the rage and I leaned into Melissa Etheridge, Michelle Shocked, Shawn Colvin, Paula Cole, Sheryl Crow, Rosanne Cash, Jann Arden, and later Mary Chaplin Carpenter, Jewell, Alanis and my most favorite Allison Krauss.
RIP Nanci. And yes, there is a light beyond these woods Mary Margret (and "nobody likes to live too close to Lubbock").
Many years ago on a Nanci Griffith mailing list mostly in Philadelphia, she was called "our poet." She was a poet, a songwriter, and a singer, and yet she mostly said she was a guitar player. She captured something elemental many of us could feel.
Nanci never knew me, but she was my friend.
Nanci was very underrated. Her songs were very sincere. She to me is the best
Just numb. Has there ever been a better song about growing up and moving on than this? Don't answer that, there hasn't x
I discovered Nanci Griffith on a ride through the Colorado Red Rocks with new friends when I was a very young man. She’s accompanied me on a lot of journeys through my life. My heart is broken, but I think we’ll keep riding together for a while.
I met Nanci when we were both playing at the Hole in the Wall. She played Sunday nights and I played Saturday nights. Over the years we became friends but both being Cancers born in the same year a day a part we had a strained friendship. One day I walked in to her kitchen and she played a song for me she had just finished, it was this one. A fiery Irish girl who could drink any man under the table. I cry every time I hear this song. I can see her giving hell to those angels in heaven. She had one he'll of guitar style and a voice like an Angel from Montgomery, You left to soon Nanci!!
Will never forget her Valentine concert at the UT cactus......she performed with her father's barbershop quartet.
I love everything she has ever recorded.
rip, dear fellow texan...so loved hearing and seeing you in concert several times
I would do anything to go back to that time in my life.
Me to
what a talent .. where in life do you ever find such a lovely gal ?? .. omg
So sad. ..what a loss but we are graced by the joy of her music....I spent decades painting to her music in my studio and dancing...gonna put those albums all on again and start dancing to her amazing spirit and music.....thank you Nanci may you be singing in the Ever Present...........
This song always makes me cry in memory of my late sister Margaret who passed to young. She would have loved my husband had she ever met him. Love this song.
married late in life.always loved nancy,never admitted it much.id hide out in the sub way if Tipperary had one.
I helped with Maggie's fundraising after her transplant. Miss her. Made me cry too.
Love this song very very much with all of my heart
Timeless, I remember when I first discovered the 'light beyond the Woods' album in my local record shop. I liked the cover so I brought it. I was eighteen. It tought me to listen to the stories in the lyrics of songs.I'm 51 now and still listen to the stories in every song . Thank you Nannci :)
I'm fifty now and I just found her. Nice. And you as well!
I’m 55... I ‘discovered’ Nanci Griffith when I was 20 and she opened for Emmylou at The Capitol Theatre in Concord.
Emmylou was great but I remember thinking, “holy cow, what the heck was that?!” Nanci was an amazing experience there in the intimate, classic theatre stage. A “quiet show” in my recollection but she knocked everyone over- including me- with her powerful presence and musicianship.
Fly away to heaven on that black bird’s wing. Rest In Peace.
Zzzz
I need and miss her soft guitar.
It is magical how it melds into her voice.
I've looked and looked but I can't find the magic like her.
My Best Friend past away 4 years ago at 62 I met her when we were 16. I will miss her until the day I die..
This breaks my heart.
Always hold the memory of those that pass close and they will be there in spirit
Nanci Griffith.. Simply wonderful.. 💓🙏
Sometimes I think I love Nanci's beautiful introductions more than the songs themselves. Okay, not quite, but it's close. So much humanity here. Incredible.
She leaves such a void or hole in this world that can never be filled, it just leaves you breathless, complete sadness.
Soooo beautiful, such a childlike quality.
Miss you Nanci. You were special, more special than you knew!
You sweet voice will live forever. God Bless you, sweet angel🙏❤️😩
Great singer and very pretty.Beautiful voice.
I love you Nanci you have brought so many feelings back to me , I know you are with our Heavenly Father now , I'll see you there .....
the music must be so beautiful in Heaven, for most of my favorites singers and close friend's have gone, It's something how GOD works in our lives
I saw the Johnny Cash show in the 70's, that was I first heard Johnny Cash sing Sam Stone.
I became a John Prine fan, which later became a Nanci Griffith. Love at the Five and Dime, like Nanci I liked president Johnson.
Thank you Nanci for giving us heaven on earth.
She awakens magic to every song she sings
Just love Nanci
For sure nanci is an. Angel singing
I have loved Nanci Griffith for too many years to count, but this song is special to me. When I first heard it I was struck by one line; a line that struck such a cord for it was almost a mini-soundtrack for my life. "Think that we will go there and see what makes it shine" . . . which seems to be what I have done for my whole life. There is always another light just beyond the hill and I seem to always have to go there to see what makes it shine. . .
Wow Michael, well said thank you,, I just discovered her tonight... Blessings
Austin Texas has lost one of its brightest stars.
I've been tearing up off-and-on since hearing the news yesterday. I wore out Nanci's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Flyer" CDs. The world lost a beautiful, gifted voice. R.I.P.
My two favorites too.
So sad - beautiful songs and stories ❤️
Your in that light now you beautiful, gorgeous, soul. And it has never shined brighter.
Your music got me through the most difficult and challenging days of my 68 years and changed my life. A piece of me went with you, but then again you left me so much.
I will love and miss you forever my dear friend. And thank You so much for introducing me to John Prine.GOD’s going to freak when you do “Speed of the sound of Lonliness for him
I have so many memories of my best friend back then. We are still friends.
Why do I always have to hang around with these people,,,I giggled so hard I teared up
so beautiful a song
There are so many songs this woman sings that I adore, but this one will always stand out in my heart. I love this woman; if it wasn't for her...I would have never gotten through my teen years.
I share every word you have written! except that when I was young I didn't know Nanci..
I add that this song is a very few songs that at the same time makes me cry and laugh at my heart!
rip Nanci your music goes on
Such a beautiful song and such a sweet and lovely voice.
There is just that special something in her voice and the way she sings... I can listen to her all night long.
I love everything Nanci has recorded - As time goes by, I'm finding it more and more difficult to accept that there will be no more wonderful songs of lost love or life experience from her - It makes me very sad, but uplifted at the same time when I listen or watch her perform on video
I loved Nancy & her music & Songs for many years & it was strange but I never learned of her Passing until on holiday in the Land of my birth & Raising & where Nancy spent a lot of time living & Singing her lovely Songs Ireland & I was Sad but still Joyful as she had left this Phase she is in the Mainland with the Nazarene & Father Lord Jesus Christ Almighty 🙏💯🙏
this lady has it. impeccable
Her songs will make your heart break. Ane now we'll get no more songs. RIP, Nanci.
Thank you sweet Lord for Nanci.
This song is truly beautiful ❤
she sounds just like an angel . what a soft whispery boice. i hope they play her music in heaven.peace, thank you nanci
John David If they don't, then it won't be heaven.
The angels have another voice today.
Great song, very sweet
What a beautiful soul.
Love this song.
Me too
The way her backup singer looked at her, it was as though she knew.
Such a beautiful woman with the softest soul with a golden voice . You were all that to me . God will give you a mansion . Peter behind my Judy
she sings like and angel.
PASSING OF A LEGEND
The great, beautiful soul that was Nanci Griffith has flown into the eternal. I fell in love with her when I first saw this video back in 1987. I loved the fragile grace of her voice. I have loved her music ever since.
Like many artists, I didn't share her political views (she was very left wing), but she was passionate and articulate with her beliefs. I have no problem with someone's political views (right or left) if they ground them in philosophy, ethics and faith.
She was incensed at those who would take advantage of others -- regardless of the reason. She was sometimes filled with righteous anger and still her grace and love for her fellow man bled through in her face and in her words.
Rest in peace Ms. Griffith. your music, your spirit will be missed. And yes, there IS a light beyond these woods.
I had forgotten how much I love this song. Best friends, growing up and away but staying connected somehow...just lovely.
my VERY FAV song from Nancy, reminds me of my friend Lisa, who was my "Margaret"... GOD rest her Soul...xo
Oh my. I've just 'discovered' Nancy Griffith and have now got to catch up on 30+ years of her music. I've generally avoided country music but everything I listen to of hers I love.
I love her music and I miss her existence. Gone way too soon.😕
Thru the years. Good heart good tears . In my soul.
How could anyone ‘downvote’ this song let alone her?!
Because, unfortunately, the Internet is rife with haters and trolls who have nothing better to do than complain.
all about her is wonderful....I never tire of watching her.....She's such a joy......God creates such people to give us beauty and joy and love....thank you
Such a beautiful song from a lady with such a beautiful voice. Thank you Nanci
If I could only have the privilege of seeing her perform one time!
She will be my friend until the end of time.
Nanci Griffith, I used to love seeing you perform. Come back. I miss your voice and I am sure many others do too.
She was so amazing ❤ Nancy
Sleep tight amazing Nanci, the world will miss you!
Stunning!
God almighty she is beautiful, in every way.
She was so cute and talented, yet I never even heard of her until she died. R.I.P. lovely.
I've been a huge fan of hers for decades, but I never listened to this song. What a haunting, reflective story. Oh man what a loss the world has suffered. Still hurts.
I first heard this song in college, about 1986, when she played on Austin City Limits. Been listening to her ever since.
The amazing Nanci in here prime managed to see her live a few times just magical talent
Love her voice. I can listen to her reading a phone book.
Jon-Francis, the first song of hers I ever heard was It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go & I thought, this is something special. I went out & bought One Fair Summer Evening & I fell in love with her & her music. It’s now one of my prized possessions. My heart breaks when I think of her passing, but we get to keep the music she left behind for us, and that’s a very good thing. I envy you, you get to discover her now.
Simple songs about life and relationships, songs that tell stories and fill our hearts and mines with imagination, a beautiful and innocent and all so sweet voice, it doesn't get any better than this.
It's Denise Franke and I saw her with Nanci in 1988 in Manchester, England.
I love that look that they exchange.
They knew they'd nailed it.
Saw Nanci in Belfast about a decade ago. She's wonderful
What an extraordianry song writer...thank you Nancy.
Deadly...
Greetings from IRELAND 😉
I love your story telling through music. 💕
I had a great Aunt called Nancy. Spending time with her was just like listening to this great singer.... A storyteller and a musician too....
Ii have Nanci Griffiths music for more than 25 years. Incredible songwriter. This song is more poignant, since Mary Margaret lost a battle to cancer before the Winter Marquee album was recorded. Nanci has had two bouts with cancer also.
the MAry Margaret this song is about didnt die of cancer
Thank you Nanci
Such a beautiful song. I'm a big fan, and have many, many of her CDs. I saw her on Austin City Limits in the late 1980s or early 1990s (can't recall when) and fell in love with her music. I wish ACL would release that performance.
Any girl who's ever had a best friend much be touched by this. And now i live 1600 km away from my best friend, and
this song makes me cry. She's still my best friend.
Thanks Nanci!
I still keep in touch with my best friend from 6th grade. We were in each others weddings.
She takes my breath.
I agree Steve. Wow ... what a magical song and a magical singer-songwriter.
I think it’s my favorite Nanci’s song composition. This performance and this song touch my heart very hard. Beautiful singer, beautiful song. What a feeling..She singing with heart. LOVE.
RIP, memories of my Irish childhood. My mother was a big fan.