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 - Alkali
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
Dm
Alkali, here's mud in your eye
F G C Dm G
You've been lost in the desert twenty-five years or more
C Dm
All your whiskey streams and your goldfield dreams
F G C
Well, Lady Luck won't let you dark her door
[Verse 2]
Am Em
And they tell me you're a ghost of a man
F G C
Lord, I believe it's true
Am Em
And they say you had a woman once
D G
But she turned her back on you
[Chorus]
Dm
You old gold mining hobo
F G C
Dry-well, desert rat, Alkali
[Verse 3]
Dm
Put the bacon on to fry
F G C Dm G
Well, the sun's coming up and the mule's waiting for his grain
C Dm
Just a one room shack, out by the Santa Fe tracks
F G C
It’s an old lick of earth that's screaming for a drop of rain
[Verse 4]
Am Em
And there's a time for work and a time for play
F G C
And a time for lying down
Am Em
And the road might lead to the rainbow's end
D G
A dusty old desert town
[Chorus]
Dm
You old gold mining hobo
F G C
Dry-well, desert rat, Alkali
[Instrumental]
Dm F G C Dm G
[Verse 5]
C Dm
Alkali, there's a buzzard in the sky
F G C Dm G
And he’s a-counting his chances on a-picking your skinflint bones
C Dm
Ah, raise your hand and throw a curse on the land
F G C
They're gonna find you one day, lying 'neath an unmarked stone
[Verse 6]
Am Em
Well, the desert is a lonely place
F G C
For a man to lose his head
Am Em
They tell me when you start to talking to yourself
D G
Lord, you might as well be dead
[Chorus]
Dm
You old gold mining hobo
F G C
Dry-well, desert rat, Alkali
[Chorus]
Am Em
Alkali, Alkali
F
You old gold-mining hobo
G C
Dry-well, desert rat, Alkali
[Chorus]
Am Em
Alkali, Alkali
F
You old gold-mining hobo
G C
Dry-well, desert rat, Alkali
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
Dm
Alkali, here's mud in your eye
F G C Dm G
You've been lost in the desert twenty-five years or more
C Dm
All your whiskey streams and your goldfield dreams
F G C
Well, Lady Luck won't let you dark her door
[Verse 2]
Am Em
And they tell me you're a ghost of a man
F G C
Lord, I believe it's true
Am Em
And they say you had a woman once
D G
But she turned her back on you
[Chorus]
Dm
You old gold mining hobo
F G C
Dry-well, desert rat, Alkali
[Verse 3]
Dm
Put the bacon on to fry
F G C Dm G
Well, the sun's coming up and the mule's waiting for his grain
C Dm
Just a one room shack, out by the Santa Fe tracks
F G C
It’s an old lick of earth that's screaming for a drop of rain
[Verse 4]
Am Em
And there's a time for work and a time for play
F G C
And a time for lying down
Am Em
And the road might lead to the rainbow's end
D G
A dusty old desert town
[Chorus]
Dm
You old gold mining hobo
F G C
Dry-well, desert rat, Alkali
[Instrumental]
Dm F G C Dm G
[Verse 5]
C Dm
Alkali, there's a buzzard in the sky
F G C Dm G
And he’s a-counting his chances on a-picking your skinflint bones
C Dm
Ah, raise your hand and throw a curse on the land
F G C
They're gonna find you one day, lying 'neath an unmarked stone
[Verse 6]
Am Em
Well, the desert is a lonely place
F G C
For a man to lose his head
Am Em
They tell me when you start to talking to yourself
D G
Lord, you might as well be dead
[Chorus]
Dm
You old gold mining hobo
F G C
Dry-well, desert rat, Alkali
[Chorus]
Am Em
Alkali, Alkali
F
You old gold-mining hobo
G C
Dry-well, desert rat, Alkali
[Chorus]
Am Em
Alkali, Alkali
F
You old gold-mining hobo
G C
Dry-well, desert rat, Alkali
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