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 - East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam
CAPO: 4th Fret
[Intro]
C G F C G F C G F
[Verse 1]
C
"I slept through the Nineteen Sixties"
F
I heard Dory Previn say
C
But me, I caught me the great white bird
G
To the shores of Africay
C
Where I lost my adolescent heart
F
To the sound of a talking drum
C G C G F
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
[Verse 2]
C
And on the roads outside Oshogbo
F
Lord, I fell down on my knees
C
There were female spirits in old mud huts
G
Iron bells ringing up in the trees
C
And an eighty-year-old white priestess
F
She made juju all night long
C G C G F
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
[Chorus]
F
Raise high the roof beams, carpenter boy
C
Yeah, we’re coming through the rye
In the cinema I saw the man on the moon
G
I laughed so hard I cried
C
It was somewhere in those rainy seasons
F
That I learned to carve my song
C G C G F C G F C G F
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
[Verse 3]
C
Oh Africa, Mother Africa
F
You lay heavy on my breast
C
You old cradle of civilization
G
Heart of darkness blood and death
C
Though we had to play you, running scared
F
When the crocodile ate the sun
C G C
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
[Verse 4]
Well, I think it’s going to rain tonight
F
I can smell it coming off the sage
C
As I sit here reading old Graham Greene
G
I taste Africa on every page
C
And then I close my eyes and see those red clay roads
F
It’s sundown, and boys, I’m gone
C G C
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
[Chorus]
F
Raise high the roof beams, carpenter boy
C
Yeah, we’re coming through the rye
It was a moveable feast of war and memory
G
A dark old lullaby
C
It was the smoke of a thousand camp fires
F
It was the wrong end of a gun
C G C F
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam, yeah
C G C G F C G F C G F C
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
CAPO: 4th Fret
[Intro]
C G F C G F C G F
[Verse 1]
C
"I slept through the Nineteen Sixties"
F
I heard Dory Previn say
C
But me, I caught me the great white bird
G
To the shores of Africay
C
Where I lost my adolescent heart
F
To the sound of a talking drum
C G C G F
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
[Verse 2]
C
And on the roads outside Oshogbo
F
Lord, I fell down on my knees
C
There were female spirits in old mud huts
G
Iron bells ringing up in the trees
C
And an eighty-year-old white priestess
F
She made juju all night long
C G C G F
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
[Chorus]
F
Raise high the roof beams, carpenter boy
C
Yeah, we’re coming through the rye
In the cinema I saw the man on the moon
G
I laughed so hard I cried
C
It was somewhere in those rainy seasons
F
That I learned to carve my song
C G C G F C G F C G F
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
[Verse 3]
C
Oh Africa, Mother Africa
F
You lay heavy on my breast
C
You old cradle of civilization
G
Heart of darkness blood and death
C
Though we had to play you, running scared
F
When the crocodile ate the sun
C G C
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
[Verse 4]
Well, I think it’s going to rain tonight
F
I can smell it coming off the sage
C
As I sit here reading old Graham Greene
G
I taste Africa on every page
C
And then I close my eyes and see those red clay roads
F
It’s sundown, and boys, I’m gone
C G C
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
[Chorus]
F
Raise high the roof beams, carpenter boy
C
Yeah, we’re coming through the rye
It was a moveable feast of war and memory
G
A dark old lullaby
C
It was the smoke of a thousand camp fires
F
It was the wrong end of a gun
C G C F
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam, yeah
C G C G F C G F C G F C
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam
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