lifeblood: songs

this section contains a listing, the lyrics, and where available background information for all the songs the indigo girls/amy ray/emily saliers have released, performed, and appeared on.

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1 2 3
--words and music: amy ray, chris mcguire, cooper seay, bryan lilje, and scott bland (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1990-09-21: nomads indians saints (indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

11th untitled song
--words and music: bill berry, peter buck, mike mills, and michael stipe (lyrics) (background)
--unreleased, performed live with michael stipe at 1988-09-25: athens fairgrounds - winterville, georgia (athens music festival) (benefit for dale boetcher and other athens charities)

12
--words and music: dom kelly (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2017-04-07: everything is just enough (dom kelly) (emily saliers on vocals) (watch on youtube)

32 seconds
--words and music: michelle malone (lyrics)
--released on 1992-06-01: live at the oak mt. amphitheatre may 31, 1991 (michelle malone) (amy ray on vocals) (listen on youtube)

331
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2017-08-11: murmuration nation (emily saliers) (listen on youtube)

48 hours
--words and music: haynes brooke (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1998-03-17: big cup of empty (new mongrels) (amy ray on mandolin and emily saliers on acoustic guitar) (listen)

6:15 diesel
--words and music: haynes brooke (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1998-03-17: big cup of empty (new mongrels) (emily saliers on vocals) (listen)

9 fingers
--words and music: haynes brooke (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1994-03-31: not dead (yet) (new mongrels) (amy ray on vocals) (listen on youtube)

9 to 5
--words and music: dolly parton (lyrics) (background)
--unreleased, performed live with dolly parton, brandi carlile, and group at 2019-07-27: newport folk festival - newport, rhode island (amy ray)

a heart in new york
--words and music: benny gallagher and graham lyle (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1981-xx-xx: tuesday's children (the b band) (amy ray and emily saliers) (listen)

a junkie's lament
--words and music: james taylor (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1981-xx-xx: tuesday's children (the b band) (amy ray and emily saliers) (listen)

a little good news
--words and music: rory michael bourke, charlie black, and tommy rocco (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2007-11-13: anne murray duets: friends and legends (anne murray) (indigo girls on vocals) (listen on youtube)

a mighty thing
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2022-09-16: if it all goes south (amy ray) (watch on youtube)

able to sing
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2011-10-04: beauty queen sister (indigo girls) (listen on youtube) and 2018-06-29: indigo girls live with the university of colorado symphony orchestra (indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

acadian driftwood
--words and music: j.r. robertson (lyrics)
--unreleased, performed live between 1997-08 and 1997-12

ain't no sunshine
--words and music: bill withers (lyrics)
--unreleased, performed live with michael stipe at 1988-09-25: athens fairgrounds - winterville, georgia (athens music festival) (benefit for dale boetcher and other athens charities)

alien anthem
--words and music: john brand and dorrie mckinley (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1996-03-19: pleasant music for nice people (belloluna) (indigo girls on vocals) (listen)

airplane
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1992-05-12: rites of passage (indigo girls) (listen on youtube) and 2009-07-21: the fillmore - san francisco, california (with common rotation) (indigo girls) (watch on youtube)

alberta
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2015-06-02: one lost day (indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

all along the watchtower
--words and music: bob dylan (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1991-06-01: back on the bus y'all (indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

all my lifetime
--words and music: kristen hall and michelle malone (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1997-07-15: beneath the devil moon" (michelle malone) (indigo girls on vocals) (listen on youtube)

all my trials
--words and music: traditional (lyrics) (background)
--unreleased, performed live with dar williams, bonnie raitt, and joan baez on the 2000-10 'honor the earth' tour

all that we let in
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2004-02-17: all that we let in (indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

all the way
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2006-09-19: despite our differences (indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

all we need
--words and music: robert coleman (lyrics)
--unreleased, performed live 1988-10-21: little five points pub - atlanta, georgia

already fine
--words and music: tylan greenstein (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2013-06-18: one true thing (tylan) (amy ray on vocals) (listen on youtube)

always be there (also known as "i'll be there")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1982-xx-xx: color me grey (amy ray) (listen)

amazing grace
--words and music: john newton (lyrics)
--unreleased, performed live at 2017-08-09: the crimson moon - dahlonega, georgia (emily saliers)

american tune
--words and music: paul simon (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1985-xx-xx: blue food (indigo girls) (listen) and 1989-xx-xx: reverse 1 live (indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

andy
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1999-09-28: come on now social (indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

angel egg
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)
--released on 2008-08-05: didn't it feel kinder (amy ray) (bonus track) (listen on youtube)

angel from montgomery
--words and music: john prine (lyrics) (background)
--unreleased, performed live since at least 1993

angels we have heard on high
--words and music: traditional (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2010-10-12: holly happy days (indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

animal
--words and music: big fish ensemble (lyrics)
--released on 1993-xx-xx: i hate parties (big fish ensemble) (indigo girls on vocals) (listen on youtube)

another on the rise
--words and music: caroline aiken (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1993-xx-xx: caroline aiken - live at the attic (caroline aiken) (emily saliers on vocals) (listen)

any single solitary heart
--words and music: john hiatt and mike porter (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1990-03-27: kris mckay - what love endures (kris mckay) (indigo girls on vocals) (listen)

anyhow
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)
--released on 2014-01-28: goodnight tender (amy ray) (listen on youtube) and 2015-11-13: the tender hour (amy ray) (listen on youtube)

anyone but myself (also known as "slow moving sea")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1982-xx-xx: color me grey (amy ray) (listen)

anyway i love you (also known as "sweet gypsy")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1982-xx-xx: color me grey (amy ray) (listen)

auld lang syne
--words by robert burns, music from a scottish folk song (lyrics)
--unreleased, performed live at 2010-12-31: bear tooth theatre - anchorage, alaska

baby don't you break my heart slow
--words and music: vonda shepard and james newton howard (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1999-04-20: by 7:30 (vonda shepard) (emily saliers vocals) (watch on youtube)

baby girl
--words and music: kristian bush, jennifer nettles, kristen hall, simone simonton, troy bieser, and robert hartley (lyrics) --unreleased, performed live with jennifer nettles and kristen hall at 2003-06-28 or 29: piedmont park - atlanta, georgia (atlanta pride) (emily saliers)

back off my joy
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics unknown) (background)
--unreleased outtake from 2017-08-11: murmuration nation (emily saliers)

back to you
--words and music: emily saliers and vonda shepard (lyrics) (background)
--unreleased, recorded version debuted on emily's patreon matreon account on 2020-07-31

back together again
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)
--released on 1981-xx-xx: tuesday's children (the b band) (amy ray and emily saliers) (listen) and 1995-10-10: 1200 curfews (indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

ballad in plain d
--music by bob dylan (instrumental) (background)

banks of the ohio
--words and music: traditional

bartender's blues
--words and music: james taylor (lyrics)

be the one
--words and music: sonia rutstein (lyrics) (background)

beacon sun
--words and music: quiet hounds (lyrics)

beauty queen sister
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

beautiful guitar
--words and music: emily saliers (instrumental) (background)

beauty to disaster
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

because the night
--words and music: bruce springsteen and patti smith

become you
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

behind the lies
--words and music: (unknown)

benny, the penny and i
--words and music: amy ray (background)

better life
--words and music: emily saliers
--released on 1983-xx-xx: here for you (emily saliers)

big cup of empty
--words and music: haynes brooke (lyrics) (background)

big white lie
--words and music: lindsay fuller (lyrics) (background)

big yellow taxi
--words and music: joni mitchell (lyrics) (background)

bird in the hand
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

birds of a feather
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

birthday song
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

bitterroot
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

black heart today
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

blame is a killer
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

blender
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

blindsided by love
--words and music: cathy richardson and kristen hall (lyrics) (background)

blister in the sun
--words and music: gordon gano (lyrics) (background)

blood and fire
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

blood quantum
--words and music: amy ray and emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

bondsman (evening in missouri)
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

box of tissues
--words and music: sonya rutstein (lyrics) (background)

boxes of bones
--words and music: sonya rutstein (lyrics) (background)

broken blossoms
--words and music: tom springfield and robert anthony gray (lyrics) (background)

broken record
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

broken wings heal
--words and music: boo ray and steve ferrone (lyrics) (background)

burn all the letters
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

burn up the blacktop
--words and music: (unknown) (lyrics)

bury my heart at wounded knee
--words and music: buffy sainte-marie (lyrics) (background)

butler field
--words and music: caroline aiken (lyrics) (background)

bus bus
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

can we go higher
--words and music: nenad bach and john tempane (lyrics) (background)

can the circle be unbroken (by and by)
--words and music: words and music by a. p. carter reworking "will the circle be unbroken" by ada r. habershon and charles h. gabriel (lyrics)

can't find my way home
--words and music: steve winwood (lyrics) (background)

can't have a heart
--words and music: scott stepakoff and emily saliers

cannonball
--words and music: brandi carlile (lyrics) (background)

caramia
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

careless youth
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

carolina in my mind
--words and music: james taylor (lyrics) (background)

carolina in the pines
--words and music: michael martin murphey (lyrics) (background)

caroline
--words and music: brandi carlile (lyrics) (background)

carry me away
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

cedar tree
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

center stage
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

champagne high
--words and music: andrew copeland, jeff beres, ken block, mark e. trojanowski, and ryan carter newell (lyrics) (background)

change my heart
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

chiapas bound
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

chickenman
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

christmas time's a comin'
--words and music: benjamin "tex" logan (lyrics) (background)

christmastime in washington
--words and music: steve earle (lyrics) (background)

chuck will's widow
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

city of sin
--words and music: big fish ensemble (lyrics) (background)

clampdown
--words and music: joe stummer and jones (lyrics) (background)

climbin' tree
--words and music: haynes brooke (lyrics) (background)

closer to fine
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

clues to you
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

cold as ice
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

cold beer and remote control
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

cold shoulder
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

collecting you
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

color me grey (also known as "thursday afternoon")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

come a long way
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

come down in time
--words and music: elton john and bernie taupin (lyrics) (background)

come on home
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

comfort is deep
--words and music: caroline aiken

compromise
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

connecticut to carolina
--words and music: heather mcentire, jenks miller, and casey toll

cordova
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

cortez the killer
--words and music: neil young (lyrics)

could we start again please
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice

country radio
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

country road
--words and music: james taylor (lyrics)

covered for you
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

cowboys and pirates
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

cowgirl in the sand
--words and music: neil young (lyrics)

crazy game
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

crying
--words and music: roy orbison and joe melson

crying in the wilderness
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

cum on feel the noize
--words and music: noddy holder and jim lea

cut it out
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

dadgum down
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

daddy's all gone
--words and music: james taylor (lyrics)

dairy queen
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

damo
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

dancing girl
--words and music: kodac harrison

dancing shoes
--words and music: dan fogelberg (lyrics)

dangerous man
--words and music: dwight yoakam

danny's song
--words and music: kenny loggins (lyrics)

dark globe
--words and music: syd barrett (lyrics)

dead man's hill
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

dear abbey white
--words and music: a fragile tomorrow

dear mr. president
--words and music: pink (lyrics) (background)

deconstruction
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

deportee (plane wreck at los gatos)
--words and music: woody guthrie and martin hoffman (lyrics)

devil moon
--words and music: michelle malone

devotion
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

didn't know a damn thing
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

didn't they know the people
--words and music: emily saliers (background)

digging for your dream
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

dirt and dead ends
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

do you hear what i hear
--words and music: noel regney

dog dreams
--words and music: the story

don't fear the reaper
--words and music: donald roeser

don't give that girl a gun
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

don't give up on me baby
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

don't think twice, it's all right
--words and music: bob dylan (lyrics)

down by the river
--words and music: neil young (lyrics)

draw the line
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

dreams
--words and music: stevie nicks

drift away
--words and music: mentor williams (lyrics)

driver education
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

duane allman
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

duncan
--words and music: paul simon (lyrics)

dying day
--words and music: brandi carlile

earth intro
--words and music: shirlette ammons

easy with love
--words and music: ferron

elizabeth
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

emily's song
--words and music: emily saliers

empire of our state
--words and music: ty greenstein

erase the pain (also known as the distance remains the same)

ever fallen in love with someone (you shouldn't have fallen in love with)
--words and music: buzzcocks (lyrics)

everybody falls
--words and music: haynes brooke

everybody's waiting (for someone to come home)
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

everything at the same time
--words and music: adrianne gonzalez and emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

everything in its own time
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

everything's alright
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice

everything's alright (reprise)
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice

factory girl
--words and music: traditional (lyrics)

fade away blind
--words and music: kristen hall (lyrics)

fall's lullaby
--words and music: catbird seat

falling star
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

fare thee well
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

fate's a cold face
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

father and son
--words and music: cat stevens (lyrics)
--studio version performed by the b band (amy ray and emily saliers) on their release "tuesday's children" (1981-xx-xx) (listen)

favorite flavor
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

faye tucker
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

feed and water the horses
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

feel the beat
--words and music: the performing arts training academy

feel this way again
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

fill it up again
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

findlay, ohio 1968
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

fine with the dark
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

finlandia
--words and music: jean sibelius, english text by lloyd stone (lyrics) (background)

fire and rain
--words and music: james taylor (lyrics)

first we take manhattan
--words and music: leonard cohen (lyrics)

fishtails
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

fleet of hope
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

fly
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

fly away
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

following my compass
--words and music: kristen hall

folsom prison blues
--words and music: johnny cash

fool for your love
--words and music: (unknown)

for free
--words and music: joni mitchell (lyrics)

free fallin'
--words and music: tom petty

free in you
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

free money
--words and music: patti smith

free of hope
--words and music: vic chestnutt (lyrics)

free through eternity (also known as "you are free")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

freebird
--words and music: allen collins and ronnie van zant

freebird/stairway to heaven/sweet home alabama

from haiti
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

from this room
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

fugitive
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

galileo
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

games people play
--words and music: joe south (background)

georgia on my mind
--words and music: james brown

get out the map
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

get together
--words and music: c powers (lyrics) (background)

gethsemane (i only want to say)
--words and music: andrew lloyd weber and tim rice

ghost
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

ghost of the gang
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

girls talk
--words and music: elvis costello (lyrics)

give in
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

give it a go
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

glow
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

go
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

go go go
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

god in heaven
--words and music: cooper seay, chris mcguire, scott bland, and jan dykes (lyrics)

going to the country
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

gone
--words and music: emily saliers and annie roboff (lyrics)

gone again
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

gone and changed
--words and music: gregory dwane

good morning, believers
--words and music: john driskell hopkins, emily saliers, sean mcintyre and brian bisky (lyrics) (background)

good times
--words and music: sam cooke (lyrics)
--first known live performance: 1988-04-11: uptown lounge - athens, georgia (with john keane) (listen)

goodnight irene
--words and music: huddie ledbetter and john lomax (lyrics)

goodnight tender
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

gossip
--words and music: mrs. fun

grace
--words by emily saliers, music by sara lee and harvey jones (lyrics)

gracie's dawn (prelude
--words and music: brian speiser

grey new orleans afternoon
--words and music: emily saliers
--released on 1983-xx-xx: here for you (emily saliers)

guy lombardo
--words and music: haynes brooke

hairshirt
--words and music: bill berry, peter buck, mike mills, and michael stipe (lyrics)

half moon cafe
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

hammer and a nail
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

hammond song
--words and music: margaret a. roche (lyrics)

hand in hand
--words and music: mark knopfler (lyrics)

hand me downs
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

happy
--words and music: brandi carlile

happy in the sorrow key
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

happy trails/stairway to heaven/sweet home alabama

happy joyous hanukkah
--words and music: woody guthrie (lyrics)

hard travelin'
--words and music: woody guthrie

heartache central time
--words and music: haynes brooke and david devries (lyrics)

heartache for everyone
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

hejira
--words and music: joni mitchell

hello vietnam
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

her town too
--words and music: james taylor (lyrics)
--studio version performed by the b band (amy ray and emily saliers) on their release "tuesday's children" (1981-xx-xx) (listen)

here i am
--words and music: tony arata

hey castrator
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

hey jesus
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

hey kind friend
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

hey you
--words and music: woody harrelson

(hidden track from holler)
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)
--starts at about the 4:45 mark in "didn't know a damn thing"

high horse
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

higher mind
--words and music: heather mcentire, jenks miller, and casey toll

history of us
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

holler
--words and music: amy ray with additional music by jeff fielder (lyrics)

holy city
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

homeward bound
--words and music: paul simon (lyrics)

hope alone
--words and music: emily saliers and annie roboff (lyrics) (background)

hosanna
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice (background)

house at pooh corner
--words and music: kenny loggins (lyrics)
--studio version performed by the b band (amy ray and emily saliers) on their release "tuesday's children" (1981-xx-xx) (listen)

how high
--words and music: the doubting thomas band

howl at the moon
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

hunter's prayer
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

i am no mermaid
--words and music: sinead lohan

i believe in love
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

i built a town
--words and music: heather mcentire, jenks miller, and casey toll

i didn't
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

i don't know how to love him
--words and music: andrew lloyd weber and tim rice

i don't know your name
--words and music: amy ray and emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

i don't wanna know
--words and music: michelle malone and amy ray (lyrics)

i don't wanna talk about it
--words and music: danny whitten (lyrics) (background)

i feel the christmas spirit
--words and music: joe isaacs (lyrics)

i gave everything
--words and music: joe isaacs

i hate myself for loving you
--words and music: joan jett and desmond child

i hope i'm here for you
--words and music: emily saliers
--released on 1983-xx-xx: here for you (emily saliers)

i know that i love you
--words and music: emily saliers
--released on 1983-xx-xx: here for you (emily saliers)

i shall be released
--words and music: bob dylan (lyrics)

i should have never crossed your path
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

i wanna be your dog
--words and music: dave alexander, ron asheton, scott asheton, and iggy pop

if i don't leave here now
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

if you live like that
--words and music: amy ray and emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

i'll be home for christmas
--words and music: buck ram, kim gannon, and walter kent (lyrics)

i'll be there (also known as "always be there")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

i'll change
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

i'll give you my skin
--words and music: emily saliers, amy ray and michael stipe (lyrics) (background)

i'm coming out
--words and music: bernard edwards and nile rodgers

i'm going to make you love me
--words and music: gary michael louris and taylor rhodes

i'm high i'm on high
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

imagination
--words and music: emily saliers, kristen hall, and lucy kaplansky

imagine
--words and music: john lennon (lyrics)

in the bleak midwinter
--words and music: traditional (lyrics)

insomniac
--words and music: kristian bush

instrumental #3
--words and music: emily saliers

intermission
--words and music: amy ray and emily saliers

it really is (a wonderful life)
--words and music: chely wright (lyrics)

it won't take long
--words and music: ferron (lyrics)

it's all right
--words and music: kristen hall

it's alright
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

it's fucked up
--words and music: gregory dwane

it's too late
--words and music: carole king (lyrics)
--studio version performed by the b band (amy ray and emily saliers) on their release "tuesday's children" (1981-xx-xx) (listen)

itsy bitsy spider
--words and music: traditional

j'aurais voulu
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

jacob's ladder-this train revised
--words and music: traditional and amy ray (lyrics)

jenny
--words and music: marqueze etheridge and tomi martin

jessie's girl
--words and music: rick springfield

jesus christ
--words and music: the no one faction

jesus was a walking man
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

john
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

johnny rottentale
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

johnny sue
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

joking
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

jonas and ezekial
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

joy train
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

jumpers landing
--words and music: haynes brooke

just passing time
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

k.c. girl
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

keep on growin'
--words and music: (unknown)

keeper of my heart
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

kid fears
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

killing time
--words and music: dede vogt (lyrics)

knockin' on heaven's door
--words and music: bob dylan (lyrics)

labor of love
--words and music: andrew peterson

land of canaan
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

landon
--words and music: grace pettis

landslide
--words and music: stevie nicks

language or the kiss
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

laramie
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

last taxi fare
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

last tears
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

late bloom
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

lay my head down
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

lazyboy
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

learn to cry
--words and music: michelle malone

learned it on me
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

least complicated
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

leaving
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

leeds
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

left me a fool
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

let it be me
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

let it go
--words and music: brandi carlile and emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

let it rain
--words and music: kristen hall

let it ring
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

let me go easy
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

let the good times roll
--words and music: sam theard and fleecie moore (lyrics)
--first known live performance: 1997-11-04: cultural center - charleston, west virginia (mountain stage) (listen)

let the spirit
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

letter to eve
--words and music: pete seeger (lyrics)

levon
--words and music: elton john and bernie taupin

lifeblood
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

life's so strange
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

lights in the sky
--words and music: belloluna

like a rolling stone
--words and music: bob dylan (lyrics)

little perennials
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

little revolution
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

live your life brave
--words and music: kristy lee

locked up
--words and music: emily saliers and lyris hung (lyrics)

lodi
--words and music: john fogerty

london calling
--words and music: joe strummer and mick jones

long ago and far away
--words and music: james taylor (lyrics)
--studio version performed by the b band (amy ray and emily saliers) on their release "tuesday's children" (1981-xx-xx) (listen)

long haul
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

long love century
--words and music: michelle malone (lyrics)

look long
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

long ride
--words and music: amy ray and emily saliers (lyrics)

looking glass smiles
--words and music: catbird seat

looking out
--words and music: brandi carlile

losing touch
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

love by you
--words and music: joan armatrading (lyrics)

love is a lion
--words and music: gerard mchugh

love of our lives
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

love of the common people
--words and music: paul young (lyrics)

love song
--words and music: lesley duncan and elton john

love the one you're with
--words and music: stephen stills (lyrics)

love will come to you
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

love's recovery
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

lower depths
--words and music: haynes brooke

lucystoners
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

lung of love
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

madness is a numbered face
--words and music: james hall

make it easier
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

make room
--words and music: amy ray (background)

make this house a home
--words and music: amy ray and michelle malone (lyrics)

making promises
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

malachy's
--words and music: margaret a. roche (lyrics)

mandy
--words and music: scott english and richard kerr

mariner moonlighting
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

match
--words and music: emily saliers and kristen hall (lyrics) (background)

maybe it's the vision
--words and music: emily saliers
--released on 1983-xx-xx: here for you (emily saliers)

me and bobby mcgee
--words and music: fred foster and kris kristofferson (lyrics)

me and my baby
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

measure of me
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

melissa
--words and music: greg allman (lyrics)

midnight rider
--words and music: gregg allman and robert kim payne (lyrics)

midnight train to georgia
--words and music: james d. weatherly (lyrics)

miracle temple holiness
--words and music: heather mcentire, jenks miller, and casey toll

mission of angels
--words and music: caroline aiken

mistletoe
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

moment of forgiveness
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

moment of glory
--words and music: sonia rutstein

mona lisas and mad hatters
--words and music: elton john and bernie taupin (lyrics)

money made you mean
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

moon river
--music by henry mancini and words by johnny mercer

moonbeam diatribe
--words and music: belloluna

more pills
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

mother gooney bird
--words and music: traditional (lyrics)

motive
--words and music: cooper seay, chris mcguire, scott bland, and jan dykes (lyrics)

mrs. robinson
--words and music: paul simon (lyrics)

mtns of glory
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

muscadine
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

muster
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

my back pages
--words and music: bob dylan (lyrics)

my dog
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

mystery
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

nashville
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

never stop
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

night moves
--words and music: bob seger (lyrics)

no expectations
--words and music: mick jagger and keith richards

no one ever told me
--words and music: emily saliers
--released on 1983-xx-xx: here for you (emily saliers)

no song left untold
--music by t.j. anderson and lyrics by amy ray

no trespassing
--words and music: emily saliers
--released on 1983-xx-xx: here for you (emily saliers)

no way out (also known as "scared to say we're friends")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

no way to treat a friend
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

north star
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

not a pretty girl
--words and music: ani difranco

not dead (yet)
--words and music: haynes brooke

not fade away
--words and music: buddy holly and norman petty

nuevas senoritas
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

o holy night
--words and music: john s. dwight (lyrics)

october
--words and music: lucy wainwright roche

oh city man
--words and music: amy ray with additional music by jeff fielder, matt smith, kerry brooks, and adrian carter (lyrics) (background)

oil song
--words and music amy ray, emily saliers, and winona laduke (lyrics)

ok corral
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

old lady interlude
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

old mcdonald had a farm
--words and music: traditional

olga's birthday
--words and music: rose polenzani

olympia inn
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

on your honor
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

one day at a time
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

one moment to another
--words and music: jon dee graham

one way ticket
--words and music: a fragile tomorrow

one weekend theme (instrumental)
--words and music: emily saliers

or
--words and music: rose polenzani

our deliverance
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

out in the country
--words and music: kristen hall

out on the farm
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

oyster and pearl
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

ozilline
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

pacifier
--words and music: hannah thomas

passage west
--words and music: john spillane (lyrics)
--released on 2025-01-09: passage west (dervish with indigo girls) (listen on youtube)

peace by tomorrow
--words and music: frank french (lyrics)

peace child
--words and music: traditional (lyrics)

peace song
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

peace tonight
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

pendulum swinger
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

pennies on the track
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

perfect world
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

peter's denial
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice

philosophy of loss
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

pilate and christ
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice

play it again sam
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

play that funky music white boy
--words and music: rob parissi

please call me, baby
--words and music: tom waits (lyrics)

poethearted
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

point hope, f.o.i.a.
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

poor jerusalem
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice (background)

powderfinger
--words and music: neil young

power of two
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

pretty vision
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

primative
--words and music: ferron

prince of darkness
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

problem child
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

pushing the needle too far
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

put it out for good
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

rabbit foot
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

racing in the street
--words and music: bruce springsteen (lyrics) (background)

ramblin' round
--words and music: woody guthrie (lyrics)

ready to fly
--words and music: roger day

ready to settle
--words by amanda green, music by tom kitt (lyrics)

red river valley
--words and music: marty robbins

redemption song
--words and music: bob marley (lyrics)

refugee
--words and music: tom petty and mike campbell (lyrics)

reunion
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

rise up
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

river
--words and music: joni mitchell (lyrics)

river song
--words and music: michelle malone

rock and roll heaven's gate
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

rock me on the water
--words and music: jackson browne (lyrics)
--studio version performed by the b band (amy ray and emily saliers) on their release "tuesday's children" (1981-xx-xx) (listen)

rockin' in the free world
--words and music: neil young (lyrics)

rodeo
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

romeo and juliet
--words and music: mark knopfler (lyrics) (background)

run
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

running from the cold
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

rural faggot
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

sad one
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

salty south
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

sandstorm in sahara
--words and music: emily saliers

santa monica
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

sara smile
--words and music: daryl hall and john oates (lyrics)

scared to say we're friends (also known as "no way out")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

scooter boys
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

search me oh god
--words and music: j edwin orr

second coming
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

second time around
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

secure yourself
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

serpent love
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

shame on you
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

share the moon
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

she's got to be
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

she's saving me
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

shed your skin
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

shit kickin'
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

shooting from the sky
--words and music: haynes brooke

simon zealotes/poor jerusalem
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice

sister
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

sister (reprise)
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

sister
--words and music: sarah bettens

slc radio
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

sleep
--words and music: holly beth vincent

sleepy sunday morning
--words and music: michelle malone

slow down day friend
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

slow moving sea (also known as "anyone but myself")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)
--studio version performed by amy ray and included on the amy ray release "color me grey" (198x-xx-xx) (listen)

sober girl
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

soft line
--words and music: lucy wainwright roche

solid ground
--words and music: janet mclaughlan

solo el amor (only love)
--words and music: sandi patty

something wicked (this way comes)
--words and music: siouxsie and the banshees

something real
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

soon be to nothing
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

sorrow and joy
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

southern california is your girlfriend
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

southern man
--words and music: neil young (lyrics)

sparrow's boogie
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

sparrow's lullaby
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

southland in the springtime
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

spider
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

spread the pain around
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

stand and deliver
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

stairway to heaven
--words and music: jimmy page and robert plant

stand up
--words and music: ferron

starkville
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

still my baby
--words and music: (unknown)

still riot
--words and music: ferron

strange fire
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

strange fruit
--words and music: abel meeropol

strange thing mystifying
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice (lyrics)

stranglehold
--words and music: ted nugent (lyrics) (background)

strength for two
--words and music: michelle malone

subway
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

sugar tongue
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

summer highland falls
--words and music: billy joel (lyrics)

summertime
--words and music: george gershwin (lyrics) (background)

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
--words and music: richard m. sherman and robert b. sherman

sure feels good anyway
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

sweet gypsy (also known as "anyway i love you")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

sweet home alabama
--words and music: ed king, gary rossington, and ronnie van zant

sweet home alabama/blood and fire

swing low sweet chariot
--words and music: traditional

talk of the town
--words and music: (unknown)

tangled up in blue
--words and music: bob dylan (lyrics)

teach your children
--words and music: graham nash

tear it down
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

tether
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

texan love song
--words and music: elton john and bernie taupin (background)

texas was clean
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

the arrest
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice

the ballad of squeaky fromme
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

the chosen ones
--words and music: ferron

the crazies
--words and music: haynes brooke

the crucifixion
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice

the devil went down to georgia
--words and music: charlie daniels (lyrics)

the distance remains the same (also known as "erase the pain")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

the galway shawl
--words and music: traditional (lyrics)

the gig that matters
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

the girl with the weight of the world in her hands
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

the hard way
--words and music: mary chapin carpenter (lyrics)

the last supper
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice (background)

the moon and st. christopher
--words and music: mary chapin carpenter

the night they drove old dixie down
--words and music: robbie robertson (lyrics)

the rise of the black messiah
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

the rock is my foundation
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

the temple
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice

the times they are a-changin'
--words and music: bob dylan

the untitled song
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

the water is wide
--words and music: traditional (lyrics)

the weakness in me
--words and music: joan armatrading (lyrics)

the weight
--words and music: robbie robertson

the wonder song
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

the wood song
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

there and back again
--words and music: toshi reagon

there's still my joy
--words and music: beth nielsen chapman, melissa manchester, and matt rollings (lyrics)

these days are an open book
--words and music: nanci griffith

they won't have me
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

thin line
--words and music: gerard mchugh (lyrics) (background)

this train revised
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

three county highway
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

three hits
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

thursday afternoon (also known as "color me grey")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

time of inconvenience
--words and music: nanci griffith

time zone
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

tiny lights
--words and music: the doubting thomas band

tired of sick
--words and music: becky warren

tired of talkin'
--words and music: gerard mchugh

tonight i'm paying the rent
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

touch me fall
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

trail of tears
--words and music: (unknown)

train inside
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

trial before pilate (including the thirty-nine lashes)
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice

tried to be true
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

trouble
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

true romantic
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

tuesday's children
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

tupelo honey
--words and music: van morrison

twice in a lifetime
--words and music: michelle malone

two trees
--words and music: haynes brooke

uncle john's band
--words and music: robert hunter and jerry garcia (lyrics)

(unknown)
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

(unknown2)
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

(unknown)
--words and music: (unknown) (lyrics)

up in smoke
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

up on the roof
--words and music: gerry goffin and carole king (lyrics)

up until now
--words and music: caroline aiken

virginia
--words and music: sonia leigh

virginia woolf
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

venus as appearances
--words and music: ferron

wag more
--words and music: franklin bunn (boxtop jenkins)

walk away
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

walk your valley
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

walking through fire
--words and music: mary chapin carpenter (lyrics)

war rugs
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

washington work song
--words and music: sonia rutstein

watershed
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

wayfaring stranger
--words and music: traditional

we are together
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

we get to feel it all
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

we're all we got
--words and music: becky warren

welcome me
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

what a nice surprise
--words and music: the vidalias

what are you like
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

what doesn't belong to me
--words and music: sinead o'connor

what we wanna be
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

(what's so funny 'bout) peace, love, and understanding
--words and music: nick lowe

what's the buzz
--words and music: andrew lloyd webber and tim rice (lyrics)

when we were writers
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics)

when you come for me
--words and music: heather mcentire (lyrics)

when your heart needs a home
--words and music: emily saliers
--released on 1983-xx-xx: here for you (emily saliers)

when you're gone, you're gone
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

when you're ready
--words and music: viva la diva

where do the children play
--words and music: cat stevens

whispering bells
--words and music: the del vikings

white flag
--words and music: emily saliers
--released on 1983-xx-xx: here for you (emily saliers)

white house blues
--words and music: caroline aiken (lyrics)

whitney houston's national anthem
--words and music: matt nathanson, lori mckenna, and donovan woods (lyrics)

who sold the gun
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

why'd she do that
--words and music: don conoscenti

wild wild party in the loquat tree
--words and music: rand bishop (lyrics)

wild horses
--words and music: mick jagger and keith richards (lyrics) (background)

wimoweh
--words and music: solomon linda

wingtip sheriff
--words and music: haynes brooke

winthrop
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

wish you were here
--words and music: roger waters and david gilmour (lyrics)

witches's brew
--words and music: hap palmer

wolf's child
--words and music: jaron pearlman

woman of heart and mind
--words and music: joni mitchell

world falls
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

would you wander
--words and music: lisa loeb

wounded knee
--words and music: reversing hour

wysteria
--words and music: dan fogelberg (lyrics)

yield
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

yoke
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

you ain't goin' nowhere
--words and music: bob dylan (background)

you and me of the 10,000 wars
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

you are free (also known as "free through eternity")
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics) (background)

you are my sunshine
--words and music: jimmie davis

you don't miss your water
--words and music: william bell

you left it up to me
--words and music: amy ray (lyrics)

you're a big girl now
--words and music: bob dylan (lyrics)

you've got a friend
--words and music: carole king (lyrics)

you've got to show
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)

your holiday song
--words and music: emily saliers (lyrics) (background)