Lyrics to Never Be the Sun are posted on Mudca, authorship attributed to Donagh Long. Another singer who recorded that song is Dolores Keane

I wasn't familiar with There's a Light Beyond These Woods, so I'm listening to it via the link provided by Jeri. A lot of new comments are added today, as we may expect, but the comments from 5 and more years ago also show how much Nanci Griffith's songs and singing meant to people. I looked up the lyrics and added them to Mudcat; clickable link in the first sentence of this paragraph.