Biography:
Tom Russell (born in Los Angeles in either 1947 or 1948) is an American singer-songwriter from California, currently living in El Paso, Texas. His music incorporates elements of folk, traditional country & western, border and cowboy music of the American West. Russell's songs have been recorded by artists such as Johnny Cash, Ian Tyson, Nanci Griffith, Dave Alvin and others. In addition to his music, he is also an artist and published author.
In the 1980s Russell made four albums credited to the Tom Russell Band.
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Other songs:
- A Bowl Of Red
- A Hard Rains A
- A Land Called Way Out There
- Acres Of Corn
- Aint No More Cane On The Brazos
- Alkali
- All This Way For The Short Ride
- Amelias Railroad Flat
- America The Beautiful
- American Rivers
- Angel Of Lyon
- Beyond The Blues
- Box Of Visions
- Bucking Horse Moon
- Bus Station
- Canadian Whisky
- Carrickfergus
- Claude Dallas
- Criminology
- Cropduster
- Dance Hall Girls
- Down The Rio Grande
- East Of Woodstock West Of Viet Nam
- El Llano Estacado
- En Canadien Errant
- Evangeline Hotel
- Finding You
- Furious Love For Liz
- Gallo Del Cielo
- Guadalupe
- Gulf Coast Highway
- Hallie Lonnigan
- Hills Of Old Juarez
- If I Had A Gun
- Isaac Lewis
- Little Blue Horse
- Love Abides
- Love Makes A Fool Out Of The Wise
- Mandarin Oranges
- Manzanar
- Mineral Wells
- Navajo Rug
- Oil Field Girls
- Old Blue
- Pilgrim Land
- Racehorse Haynes
- Rambler Gambler
- Rider On An Orphan Train
- Rose Of San Joaquin
- Santa Fe At Midnight
- Sitting Bull In Venice
- Somebodys Husband Somebodys Son
- Sonoras Death Row
- Spanish Burgundy
- Stealing Electricity
- The Ballad Of Edward Abbey
- The Dutchman
- The Eyes Of Robert Duran
- The Eyes Of Roberto Duran
- The Greatest Show On Earth
- The John Bull Tin
- The Kid From Spavinaw
- The Man From God Knows Where
- The Next Thing Smokin
- The Old Rugged Cross
- The Railroad Boy
- The Rose Of Roscrae
- The Rose Of The San Joaquin
- The Santa Fe At Midnight
- The Sky Above The Mud Below
- The Water Is Wide
- Throwin Horseshoes At The Moon
- Throwing Horseshoes At The Moon
- Tonight We Ride
- Touch Of Evil
- Veterans Day
- Walkin On The Moon
- Walking On The Moon
- Wayfarin Stranger
- What Work Is
- When Sinatra Played Juarez
- When The Wolves No Longer Sing
- Where The Dream Begins
- Whos Gonna Build Your Wall
- Winnipeg
- Woodrow
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Tom Russell - American Rivers
CAPO: 2nd Fret
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
F C
Ain’t no more cane on the Brazos
F G C
Yeah, yeah, yeah
F C
It’s all been ground down to molasses
F G C
Yeah, yeah, yeah
[Verse 2]
I saw a red iron sunset
From a rust iron bridge
F
In the Indian country
C
Of the mockingbird kid
[Verse 3]
I saw the moon in a boxcar
Being carried as freight
F
Through sixty-two winters
C
Through forty-eight states
[Verse 4]
In an old Chinese graveyard
I slept in the weeds
F
When a song and a story
C
Were all a kid needs
[Verse 5]
Hear the rhymes and the rattles
Of those runaway trains
F
And the songs of the cowboy
C
And the sound of the rain
[Chorus]
And it’s, "Mom, I miss you"
I woke up and screamed
F
American rivers
C
Roll deep through my dreams
F C
It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
F C
Shenandoah, Susquehanny
Am G
And the Wabash and the Hudson, the brave Rio Grande
F C
I was a kid there, asleep in the sandy old water
F C F C
Yeah, old water, yeah
[Interlude]
C Bb C Bb C
[Verse 6]
We named ‘em for Indians
Our guilt to forsake
F
The Delaware the Blackfoot
C
The Flathead the Snake
[Verse 7]
Now they roll past casinos
And old hamburger stands
F
They’re all waving farewell
C
To the kid on the land
[Verse 8]
With their jigsawed old arteries
So clogged and defiled
F
No open heart miracle
C
Is gonna turn ’em back wild
[Verse 9]
Past towns gone to bankers
Past fields gone to seed
F
All cut up and carved out
C
So divided by greed
[Verse 10]
And old grandfather catfish
With his whiskers so long
F
And his life in a struggle
C
'Cause the oxygen’s gone
[Chorus]
"Oh, mom, I miss you", I woke up and screamed
F
These American rivers
C
They poison my dreams
F C
It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
F C
Shenandoah, Susquehanny
Am G
And the Wabash and the Hudson, the brave Rio Grande
F C
I was a kid there, I was asleep in the sandy old water
F C F
Yeah, old water, yeah
[Outro]
C Bb C Bb C
CAPO: 2nd Fret
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
F C
Ain’t no more cane on the Brazos
F G C
Yeah, yeah, yeah
F C
It’s all been ground down to molasses
F G C
Yeah, yeah, yeah
[Verse 2]
I saw a red iron sunset
From a rust iron bridge
F
In the Indian country
C
Of the mockingbird kid
[Verse 3]
I saw the moon in a boxcar
Being carried as freight
F
Through sixty-two winters
C
Through forty-eight states
[Verse 4]
In an old Chinese graveyard
I slept in the weeds
F
When a song and a story
C
Were all a kid needs
[Verse 5]
Hear the rhymes and the rattles
Of those runaway trains
F
And the songs of the cowboy
C
And the sound of the rain
[Chorus]
And it’s, "Mom, I miss you"
I woke up and screamed
F
American rivers
C
Roll deep through my dreams
F C
It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
F C
Shenandoah, Susquehanny
Am G
And the Wabash and the Hudson, the brave Rio Grande
F C
I was a kid there, asleep in the sandy old water
F C F C
Yeah, old water, yeah
[Interlude]
C Bb C Bb C
[Verse 6]
We named ‘em for Indians
Our guilt to forsake
F
The Delaware the Blackfoot
C
The Flathead the Snake
[Verse 7]
Now they roll past casinos
And old hamburger stands
F
They’re all waving farewell
C
To the kid on the land
[Verse 8]
With their jigsawed old arteries
So clogged and defiled
F
No open heart miracle
C
Is gonna turn ’em back wild
[Verse 9]
Past towns gone to bankers
Past fields gone to seed
F
All cut up and carved out
C
So divided by greed
[Verse 10]
And old grandfather catfish
With his whiskers so long
F
And his life in a struggle
C
'Cause the oxygen’s gone
[Chorus]
"Oh, mom, I miss you", I woke up and screamed
F
These American rivers
C
They poison my dreams
F C
It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
F C
Shenandoah, Susquehanny
Am G
And the Wabash and the Hudson, the brave Rio Grande
F C
I was a kid there, I was asleep in the sandy old water
F C F
Yeah, old water, yeah
[Outro]
C Bb C Bb C
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