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 - Amelia’s Railroad Flat
CAPO: 4th Fret
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
F
Amelia, she worked for the railroad
G C
Doing what, I never knew
Dm
But I’d meet her down at the depot
G C
Every day at half-past two
[Verse 2]
F
And we climbed the old wood stairway
G C
Find the key below the mat
Dm
Watch the sunset on the freight yard
G C
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat
[Verse 3]
F
Russian vodka in the freezer
G C
From the Polish liquor store
Dm
Spanish rice, Moroccan oranges
G C
Persian rugs upon the floor
[Verse 4]
F
And Amelia came from Denmark
G C
She bought a pair of Siamese cats
Dm
They’d wake us up there in the morning
G C
At Amelia’s railroad flat
[Bridge]
Am F
And every night the midnight ghost rode out on time
Am F
Rolling down the line at twelve-o-nine
Am F
And we’d sit and count the cars out on the track
C G
As they shook the bedroom window of Amelia’s railroad flat
[Instrumental]
G F G C Dm G C
[Verse 5]
F
But the freight yards, they are gone now
G C
And the buildings block the sun
Dm
And Amelia sailed for Demark
G C
Way back in Nineteen Eighty-One
[Verse 6]
F
But every time I hear a freight train
G C
Or watch the sunset on the tracks
Dm
Lord, I recall those summer evenings
G C
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat
[Verse 7]
F
And every time I hear a freight train
G C
Blowing lonely down the track
Dm
I hear those bedroom windows rattle
G C
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat
Dm
Lord, how those bedroom windows rattled
G C
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat
CAPO: 4th Fret
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
F
Amelia, she worked for the railroad
G C
Doing what, I never knew
Dm
But I’d meet her down at the depot
G C
Every day at half-past two
[Verse 2]
F
And we climbed the old wood stairway
G C
Find the key below the mat
Dm
Watch the sunset on the freight yard
G C
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat
[Verse 3]
F
Russian vodka in the freezer
G C
From the Polish liquor store
Dm
Spanish rice, Moroccan oranges
G C
Persian rugs upon the floor
[Verse 4]
F
And Amelia came from Denmark
G C
She bought a pair of Siamese cats
Dm
They’d wake us up there in the morning
G C
At Amelia’s railroad flat
[Bridge]
Am F
And every night the midnight ghost rode out on time
Am F
Rolling down the line at twelve-o-nine
Am F
And we’d sit and count the cars out on the track
C G
As they shook the bedroom window of Amelia’s railroad flat
[Instrumental]
G F G C Dm G C
[Verse 5]
F
But the freight yards, they are gone now
G C
And the buildings block the sun
Dm
And Amelia sailed for Demark
G C
Way back in Nineteen Eighty-One
[Verse 6]
F
But every time I hear a freight train
G C
Or watch the sunset on the tracks
Dm
Lord, I recall those summer evenings
G C
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat
[Verse 7]
F
And every time I hear a freight train
G C
Blowing lonely down the track
Dm
I hear those bedroom windows rattle
G C
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat
Dm
Lord, how those bedroom windows rattled
G C
Up at Amelia’s railroad flat
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