Тексты песен «Tom Russell»


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Tom Russell - American Rivers

Ain't no more cane on the Brazos Yeah, yeah yeah It's all been ground down to molasses Yeah yeah yeah I saw a red iron sunsets - From a rust iron bridge In the Indian country -Of the mockingbird kid I saw the moon in a...

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Tom Russell - Benediction: Edward Abbey

"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral...

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Tom Russell - Blue Wing

He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder Well it might have been a blue bird I don't know But he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska The salmon boats and 45 below He said he got that blue wing up in Walla Walla...

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Tom Russell - Criminology

I had a gun pointed at my head on several occasions, Yeah Nadine I was scared. Something about a black man with a machine gun make you wish you said your prayers, It was Nigeria, the year was 1969 I was teaching...

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Tom Russell - Crosses Of San Carlos

Two Apache kids in a stolen car navigatin by a fallin star ...yeah Where are they goin? Towards Jerusalem Mountain Red amphetamine sunrise Mesquite Saguarro Great Mystical Agave tell 'em please Where are they goin?...

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Tom Russell - East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam

I slept through the Nineteen Sixties, I heard Dory Previn say But me I caught me the great white bird, to the shores of Africay Where I lost my adolescent heart, to the sound of a talking drum Yeah, East of Woodstock,...

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Tom Russell - East Texas Red

(Woddy Guthrie) Down in the scrub oak country to the southeast Texas Gulf There used to ride a brakeman, a brakeman double tough. He worked the town of Kilgore, and Longview twelve miles down, And the travellers all...

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Tom Russell - El Paso

(Marty Robbins) Out in the West Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl Nighttime would find me in Rosa's Cantina Music would play and Felina would whirl Blacker than night where the eyes of Felina...

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Tom Russell - Finding You

FINDING YOU Tom Russell They are blessing the animals in the old Cathedral square Tonight they'll bless the shoeshine boys, And baby I'll be there For I need all the blessings to keep this heart at home To remember all...

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Tom Russell - Guadalupe

There are ghosts out in the rain tonight High up in those ancient trees Lord, I've given up without a fight Another blind fool on his knees And all the gods that I'd abandoned here Begin to speak in simple tongues Lord,...

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Tom Russell - Hills Of Old Juarez

I lost my mind ten years ago A wanderin' through the world Let's cut right to the quick I met me a dark-eyed girl I was living in El Paso with a woman named Inez We'd stare out every evening At the hills of old Jaurez...

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Tom Russell - Lily, Rosemary, And The Jack Of Hearts

The festival was over the boys were all plannin' for a fall The cabaret was quiet except for the drillin' in the wall The curfew had been lifted and the gamblin' wheel shut down Anyone with any sense had already left...

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Tom Russell - Mississippi River Runnin' Backwards

Old man river, that old man river he just keeps rolling along. Mississippi river runnin' backwards, earthquake shook the land, it happened down here in 1912 it's happening here again. Feast and famine ya'all fire and...

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Tom Russell - Nina Simone

Trains used to run All across Mexico Way down through the XXXXXXX Where ever in hell you know It was down in st XXXXXX That I first heard the sound Of Nina's voice on the juke box xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx And I was so lost down...

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Tom Russell - Old Blue

Well, I had an old dog and his name was Blue, Had an old dog and his name was Blue. Had an old dog and his name was Blue... Betcha five dollars he's a good dog too... "Here old Blue" "Good dog you"...

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Tom Russell - Outbound Plane

Dona??t wanna be standing here with this ticket for that outbound plane Ia??ve been here before yet somehow this doesna??t feel the same Talk is cheap though we can talk all night long You may never figure out, yeah,...

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Tom Russell - Seven Curses

(Bob Dylan) Old Reilly stole a stallion But they caught him and they brought him back And they laid him down on the jailhouse ground With an iron chain around his neck. Old Reilly's daughter got a message That her...

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Tom Russell - Stealing Electricity

There's a Mexican dead on a power line He's deader than yesterday's communion wine He was trying to get something he couldn't afford for free A poor man stealing electricity His heart when d-da, d-da, d-da, d-da, d-da...

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Tom Russell - The Man From God Knows Where

Come gather round me children, a story I will tell I've been around since Jesus met the woman at the well I've walks these roads ten thousand years, I'm a ragtime millionaire I am the rake and the ramblin' saint, the...

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Tom Russell - The Next Thing Smokin'

Well I live out in Southern Arizona I followed an abandoned railroad track Trains they used run from Bisby out to Juarez But the copper mines are closed and the trains ain't comin' back This here's the of stolen ponies...