Iris DeMent (born January 5, 1961) is an American United States singer and songwriter. DeMent's musical style encompasses the genres country Country music and folk music. [read more] - In Spite Of Ourselves
She don't like her eggs all runnyShe thinks crossin' her legs is funnyShe looks down her nose at moneyShe gets it on like the Easter BunnyShe's my babyI'm her honeyI'm never gonna let her go He ain't got laid in a...
- God May Forgive You But I Don't
You say that you're born againCleansed of your former sinsYou want me to say I'll forgive and forgetBut you've done too much for meDon't you be touchin' meGo back and touch all those women you've metChorus:God may...
- The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home
Come along, my dear, the time is growin' near,We'll have to walk down where the field is overgrown.Consumption has claimed his life and we dare not miss the sight,Of the train carrying Jimmie Rodgers home.Well, we had...
- Wasteland Of The Free
Living in the wasteland of the free...We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond minesand their speech is growing increasingly unkindThey say they are Christ's disciplesbut they don't look like Jesus to meand it...
- Walkin' Home
I'm walkin' home tonightThe streets are glowing 'neath the pale moonlightI look around, there's not a soul in sightand I'm walkin' homeOnce again I hear my mother's voiceand all us kids making a bunch of noiseIf I'm...
- This Kind Of Happy
I traveled high, I traveled lowand there was no place I didn't golooking for this kind of happy with youI had a love, it wasn't rightand I spent so many lonely nightsyearning for this kind of happy with youHappy with...
- Letter To Mom
I wrote my mother yesterday 'cause I had some things that I had to sayand I know that when she reads them she's gonna cryBut in the end I hope she seesthat I'm just trying to break free'cause I've been walking 'round...
- Quality Time
She's got a phone in one hand, a hairbrush in the otherand she says, "Life's too short to stay home and be a mother"She says she can have it all 'cause that's The New Dealso God give her a hand, 'cause she needs one...
- Keep Me God
It was a long time ago, I was a girl 'bout 12 years oldon my back staring up into the dark summer skywhen I said, "God, tomorrow I can't seebut I'll stick close to you if you'll stick close to me!"and that night I...
- The Way I Should
A cold wind against my shoulder woke me up in the middle of the nightAn Autumn leaf was scraping against my windowlike it was trying hard to get insideand then a ghost that I had met before kept me up 'til dawnand...
- There's A Wall In Washington
There's a wall in Washington and it's made of cold black granite They say 60,000 names are etched there in it in that wall in Washington A father, he traveled from far away to walk the path 'til he finds that name He...
- I'll Take My Sorrow Straight
We both know the reason why you've calledSo stop wastin' time tryin' to soften up my fallI know you wanna sweeten up the tasteBut if you don't mind, I'll just take my sorrow straightYou almost make it seem like...
- When NY Mornin' Comes Around
When my mornin' comes around, No one else will be thereSo I won't have to worry about What I'm supposed to sayAnd I alone will know that I climbed That great big mountainAnd that's all that will matter When my mornin'...
- Trouble (Delbert McClinton)
I went to church on Sunday, I swung my chariot lowReached up to kiss the deacon, he said "You'd better go"Trouble, I'm in trouble with himTrouble's where I'm goingTrouble's the only place I've ever beenLet's buy a...
- You've Done Nothing Wrong
You told me that you wished that things had not turned out this wayYou never thought there'd come a time when you would go awayBut you stayed right there beside me even when the love was goneand just because I'm...
- My Life
My life, it don't count for nothingwhen I look at this world I feel so smallMy life, it's only a seasona passing September that no one will recallBut I gave joy to my mother and I made my lover smileAnd I can give...
- Calling For You
I woke up this morning without youDon't ask me how but I go t throughThe floor of this room I've been pacingtrying to drown out the sound my heart's makingIt's calling for youWe said, "It looks like we won't make...
- Sweet Is The Melody
Sweet is the melody, so hard to come byIt's so hard to make every note bend just rightYou lay down the hours and leave not one tracebut a tune for the dancing is there in it's placeThe dance floor's for gliding and...
- The Shores Of Jordan
I looked up into heaven, I thought I'd solve life's mysteriesI observed the constellations for a clue to my destinybut the rhyme of life confounds me,things will be as things will beso I'll just dance the shores of...
- Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day
Standing barefoot on a cold wood floorLooking out the window of my back doorIf it keeps on raining I think the whole damn house is gonna float awayThe alarm was buzzing at the break of dawnMy husband asking "Is the...
- Troublesome Waters
Troublesome waters, much blacker than night,are hiding from view the harbour's bright lightTossed on the turmoil of life's troubled seaI cried to my Saviour, "Have mercy on me".Then gently I'm feeling the touch of his...
- No Time To Cry
My father died a year ago today,The rooster started crowing when they carried Dad awayThere beside my mother, in the living room, I stoodWith my brothers and my sisters knowing Dad was gone for goodWell, I stayed at...
- Mom And Dad's Waltz
I'd walk for miles, cry and smile for my Mama and DaddyI want them, I want them to know how I feelMy love is real for my Mama and DaddyI want them to know I love them soAnd in my heart, joy tears start `cause I'm...
- Childhood Memories
Fireflies inside of a mason jaracting big behind the wheel of daddy's carPlaying church around the old piano stand,you were quite a preacher and we sang so grandI remember every night what we would say and do"If...
- After You're Gone
There'll be laughter even after you're goneI'll find reasons to face that empty dawn'cause I've memorized each line in your faceand not even death can ever erase the story they tell to meI'll miss you, oh how I'll...
- Infamous Angel
Last night before I went to sleep my knees dropped to the floorI turned me eyes up to the sky and I prayed "Please help me, Lord,you know I've sowed my wild oats and now the fun's all gone"and then I heard these...
- Hotter Than Mojave In My Heart
Well, I've heard them say there's one for everybodyAnd I just knew somehow that you'd be the one for me'Cause making love with you's not just a hobbyNo, it's the flame that burnt the forest down in meAnd darling was...
- Our Town
And you know the sun's settin' fastand just like they say nothing good ever lastsWell, go on now and kiss it goodbye but hold on to your lover'cause your heart's bound to dieGo on now and say goodbye to our town, to...
- Higher Ground
[Spoken intro by Iris: "No voice has inspired me more than my mother's. She showed me that music is a pathway to higher ground".]I'm pressing on the upward wayNew heights I'm gaining every dayStill praying as I'm...
- Mama's Opry
[note: harmony vocals provided by Emmylou Harris]She grew up plain and simple in a farming townHer daddy played the fiddle and use to do the callingwhen they had hoedownsShe said the neighbors would comeand they'd...
- When Love Was Young
Look at you, look at memy heart breaks as I read our sad storyNever thought that I'd behere with you wishing I was freeI never dreamed today would comewhen love was youngThere was nothing I would not dofor the chance...
- Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room
Twelve-hundred miles, it's length and breadthThat four-square city standsit's gem-set walls of jasper shinethey're not made by human handsOne-hundred miles it's gates are wideabundant entrance therewith fifty miles of...
- Let The Mystery Be
Everybody's wonderin' what and where they they all came fromeverybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna gowhen the whole thing's donebut no one knows for certainand so it's all the same to meI think I'll just let...
- Sweet Forgiveness
Sweet forgiveness, that's what you give to mewhen you hold me close and you say "That's all over"You don't go looking back,you don't hold the cards to stack,you mean what you say.Sweet forgiveness, you help me seeI'm...
- These Hills
Far away I've traveledTo stand once more aloneAnd hear my memories echoYhrough these hills that I call homeAs a child I roamed this valleyI watched the seasons come and goI spent many hours dreamingOn these hills that...
- Pretty Saro
When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty-nineI saw many fair lovers but I never saw mineI view-ed it all around me, saw I was quite aloneAnd me a poor stranger and a long way from home.Well, my true...
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