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Thread #52718 Message #2863599
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Mar-10 - 06:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Nanci Griffith link
Subject: ADD: The Loving Kind (Nanci Griffith)
Nanci is performing near me in Grass Valley, California, on May 1. I wanted to go, but the tickets are $50 apiece. I'm listening to her 2009 Loving Kind album right now, and I like it a lot. You can find complete lyrics here (click) but here's the title track:
THE LOVING KIND (Nanci Griffith)
They were the loving kind She was black and he was white In Virginia nineteen fifty-eight They found love amongst the hate
Well the law said they could not wed They married anyway The sheriff put them both in jail Separated 'till they made their bail
They changed the heart of a nation with their wedding vows From the highest court in the land Their union would lawfully stand Simply Mildred and Richard That's how they'll be remembered They proved that love is truly blind They were the loving kind.
The Lovings lived a quiet life In their Virginia home and while the case worked its way through the courts They brought three children to this world Richard died in seventy-five Mildred kept their love alive 'Till the spring of two thousand-eight Fifty years beyond the hate
They changed the heart of a nation with their wedding vows From the highest court in the land Their union would lawfully stand Simply Mildred and Richard That's how they'd be remembered They proved that love is truly blind They were the loving kind.