All The Lilacs In Ohio
John Hiatt

Well, you met her there on a New York City stair
You were throwing up on your shoes
Tryin' to write the great book when it really had you shook
With a bad case of wintertime blues

So you drag her down to the ragged side of town
She had a taxi to carry her home
Then she left her handkerchief there beside you on the seat
As if to emphasize that you were all alone

It smelled like springtime and you were just a boy
And all the lilacs in Ohio
All the lilacs in Ohio. There ya go.
In the city streets and the dirty winter snow

All the lilacs in Ohio - hio.
Well, she's the love story you speak of
When you talk to Sam at the bar
But it's in the details your story often fails

Yeah, close, but no cigar
And you might see your own a** in a double whiskey glass
But you'll never erase her smile
And you'll never write it down, never find her in this town

Of phantom dreams and fingernail files
It was springtime, and you were just a boy
And all the lilacs in Ohio
All the lilacs in Ohio. There ya go

In city streets and the dirty winter snow
All the lilacs in Ohio - hio
So you pin her handkerchief to your clean white linen sheets
And you unmake your bed, crawl in

You imagine her there and you're tangled in her hair
And she smells like flowers again
And it's springtime, and you were just a boy
All the lilacs in Ohio

All the lilacs in Ohio. There ya go
In the city streets and the dirty winter snow
All the lilacs in Ohio - hio


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  (No More) Dancing In The Street   Across the Borderline   Adios To California   After All This Time   Ain't Ever Goin' Back   Ain't Ever Goin' Back   Almost Fed Up With The Blues   Alone In The Dark   Angel   Angel Eyes   Angel Eyes (Live)   Angel Eyes [Live]   As Good As She Could Be   Baby?s Gonna Kick   Back Of My Mind   Back On The Corner   Back To Normal   Back To The War   Before I Go   Big Love   Bite Marks   Blue Telescope   Blues Can't Even Find Me   Blues Can't Even Find Me   Book Lovers   Bring Back Your Love To Me   Buffalo River Home   Buffalo River Home (LP Version)   Carry You Back Home   Cherry Red   Child Of The Wild Blue Yonder   Circle Back   Cold River   Come Back Home   Come Home To You   Cop Party   Copy Party   Cross My Fingers   Crossing Muddy Waters   Cry Love   Dancing In The Street   Death By Misadventure   Detroit Made   Distance   Do You Want My Job   Doll Hospital   Don't Bug Me When I'm Working   Don't Know Much About Love   Don't Look Any Further   Don't Think About Her When You're Trying To Drive   Don't Bug Me When I'm Working   Don't Know Much About Love   Don't Think About Her When You're Trying...   Down Around My Place   Down Around My Place   Down Home   Down In Front   Drive South   Drive South (LP Version)   Dust Down A Country Road   Ethylene   Everybody Went Low   Face Of God   Face The Nation   Falling Up   Far As We Go   Farther Stars   Feelin' Again   Feelin' Again   Feels Like Rain   Feels Like Rain (LP Version)   Find You At Last   Fireball Roberts   Fly Back Home   Fool Who Knows   Forever Yours   Friend Of Mine   Full Moon   Georgia Rae   Getting Excited   Girl On A String   Give It Up   Go Down Swingin'   God's Golden Eye   God's Golden Eyes   God's Golden Eye   Gone   Good As She Could Be   Good Girl, Bad World   Graduated   Hand of Kindness   Hangin' Around Here   Hangin' Around The Observatory   Hangin' Round Here   Hangin' Around Here   Hangin' Around The Observatory   Haulin'   Have A Little Faith In Me   Here To Stay   Hold On for Your Love   Homeland   How Bad's The Coffee   How Bad's The Coffee   Howlin' Down The Cumberland   Howlin' Down The Cumberland   Hurt My Baby   I Can't Wait   I Can't Wait   I Could Use An Angel   I Don't Even Try   I Don't Even Try   I Got A Gun   I Just Don't Know What To Say   I Just Don't Know What To Say   I Killed An Ant   I Killed An Ant With My Guitar   I Know A Place   I Know How To Lose You   I Look For Love   I Love That Girl   I Spy   I Spy (For the F.B.I.)   I Spy (For The Fbi)   I Want Your Love Inside Of Me   I'll Never Get Over You   I'm A Real Man   I'm Tired Of Your Stuff   I'll Never Get Over You   I'm A Real Man   Icy Blue Heart   Inside Job   Instant Karma   Is Anybody There?   It All Comes Back Someday   It All Comes Back Someday   It Hasn't Happened Yet   It Hasn't Happened Yet   It'll Come To You   It's All Right With Me   It's Alright With Me   It'll Come To You   It's All Right With Me   Just to Satisfy You   Learning How To Love You   Let It Ride   Let It Slip Away   Let's Give This Love a Try   Let's Give This Love A Try   Lift Up Every Stone   Like a Freight Train   Lincoln Town   Lipstick Sunset   Listening To Old Voices   Little Blue Song For You   Little Head   Living A Little, Laughing A Little   Living Just A Little, Laughing Just A Little   Long Night   Long Time Comin   Long Time Comin'   Love In Flames   Love Like Blood   Love You Again   Love's Not Where We Thought We Left It   Love's Not Where We Thought We Left It   Lovers Will   Loving A Hurricane   Loving a Hurricane [*]   Madonna Road   Marianne   Marlene   Master Of Disaster   Maybe Baby, Say You Do   Memphis in the Meantime   Mile High   Missing Pieces   Motorboat To Heaven   Movin' On   Mr. Stanley   My Baby   My Baby Blue   My Business   My Dog And Me   My Edge Of The Razor   My Old Friend   My Sweet Girl   Nagging Dark   Native Son   New Numbers   No Wicked Grin   Nobody Knows His Name   Nothin? I Love   Nothinu2019 I Love   Number One Honest Game   Ocean   Old Days   Old Habits   Old Habits Are Hard to Break   Old Habits Are Hard to Break   Old People   Old School   On With You   One Kiss   One More Time   One Of Them Damn Days   Only The Song Survives   Our Time   Overcoats   Overnight Story   Paper Thin   Paper Thin (LP Version)   Perfectly Good Guitar   Permanent Hurt   Pink Bedroom   Pirate Radio   Radio Girl   Real Fine Love   Ride Along   Ride My Pony   Riding With The King   River Knows Your Name   Rock Back Billy   Rock of Your Love   Rose   Runaway   Sail Away   Same Old Man   Say It With Flowers   Seven Little Indians   Sharon's Got A Drug Store   Sharon's Got A Drugstore   Sharon's Got A Drug Store   She Loves The Jerk   She Runs Hot   She Said The Same Things To Me   Shredding The Document   Shredding the Document   Slow Turning   Slug Line   Smiling In The Rain   Solar Sex Panel   Some Fun Now   Something Broken   Something Happens   Something Wild   Sometime Other Than Now   Spy Boy   Stolen Moments   Stood Up   Straight Outta Time   String Pull Job   Sure As I'm Sittin' Here   Sure As I'm Sitting Here   Sure As I'm Sitting Here   Sure Pinocchio   Take Another Look   Take It Back   Take It Down   Take Off Your Uniform   Tennessee Plates   Tennessee Plates (LP Version)   Terms Of My Surender   Terms Of My Surrender   Thank You Girl   The Action   The Crush   The Lady Of The Night   The Last Time   The Love That Harms   The Most Unoriginal Sin   The Nagging Dark   The Negroes Were Dancing   The Negroes Where Dancing   The Night That Kenny Died   The Open Road   The Rest Of The Dream   The River Knows Your Name   The Tiki Bar Is Open   The Trouble With Blood   The Usual   The Walking Dead   The Way We Make A Broken Heart   The Wreck of the Barbie Ferrari   Thing Called Love   Thirty Years Of Tears   This Secret Life   Through Your Hands   Thunderbird   Til I Get My Lovin' Back   Tip Of My Tongue   Trudy & Dave   Trudy And Dave   Two Hearts   Uncommon Connection   Walk On   Warming Up To The Ice Age   Washable Ink   What Do We Do Now   What Do We Do Now?   What Kind of Man   What Love Can Do   When My Love Crosses Over   When New York Had Her Heart Broke   When New York Had Her Heart Broke [Instrumental]   When We Ran   When You Hold Me Tight   Where Nobody Knows My Name   Whistles In My Ears   Wild Eyed Gypsies   Wild Eyed Gypsy   Wild-Eyed Gypsies   Wind Don?t Have To Hurry   Window on the World   Wintertime Blues   Woman Sawed In Half   Wonder of Love   Wood Chipper   Wrote It Down & Burned It   Wrote It Down And Burned It   You Caught Me Laughin'   You May Already Be a Winner   You Must Go   You Used To Kiss The Girls   You're My Love Interest   Your Dad Did   Your Love Is My Rest   Zero House

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