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 - The Ballad Of Edward Abbey
[Intro]
Am
[Verse 1]
F G Am
It was in the town of Tucson in Nineteen Eighty-Three
G Am
A man named Edward Abbey come a walking up to me
G Am
He pulled his cigar from his mouth, said, "I smell lawyers here"
F G Am
The politician, running-dogs, they crawled away in fear
[Chorus]
G
Singing do-ra-do
Am
Singing do-ra-day
[Verse 2]
F G Am
Ed walked across the desert at least a thousand times
G Am
He spoke with javelina, slept 'neath piñon pine
G Am
And if he saw a billboard there, he'd chop that bastard down
F G Am
Said, if a man can't piss in his own front yard, he'd never keep close to town
[Chorus]
G
Singing do-ra-do
Am
Singing do-ra-day
F C E7 Am
Lord, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today
[Verse 3]
F G Am
Ed had a taste for women, in fact he married quite a few
G Am
He said, "I'd fall in love, boys, but I'm only passing through
G Am
You know I like 'em all, boys, and some more than the rest
F G Am
I've tried my hand at monogamy, now I'm off to save the west
[Chorus]
G
Singing do-ra-do
Am
Singing do-ra-day
[Verse 4]
F G Am
Ed died one day at sundown in his Tucson riding shack
G Am
They wrapped him in a sleeping bag and drove him way out back
G Am
Beneath the wild saguaro, the coyotes chewed his bones
F G Am
And on a hidden marker, was 'No Comment', carved in stone
[Chorus]
G
Singing do-ra-do
Am
Singing do-ra-day
F C E7 Am
Yeah, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today
[Verse 5]
F G Am
Now I'm living in the desert, but the town is a-closing in
G Am
Those cracker box developments, Ed would call a sin
G Am
We stole this land from the Mexican and now we'll sell it back
F G Am
And they'll live like mortgage prisoners in those goddamn housing tracts
[Verse 6]
F G Am
Tell me, who votes for the mountain lion, tell me, who votes for the fox
G Am
Who votes for the spotted owl who hides there in the rocks
G Am
I wish that Ed would come again with a chainsaw in his hand
F G Am
And carve all up those housing tracts and take on back the land
[Chorus]
G
Singing do-ra-do
Am
Singing do-ra-day
F C E7 Am
Yeah, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today
[Intro]
Am
[Verse 1]
F G Am
It was in the town of Tucson in Nineteen Eighty-Three
G Am
A man named Edward Abbey come a walking up to me
G Am
He pulled his cigar from his mouth, said, "I smell lawyers here"
F G Am
The politician, running-dogs, they crawled away in fear
[Chorus]
G
Singing do-ra-do
Am
Singing do-ra-day
[Verse 2]
F G Am
Ed walked across the desert at least a thousand times
G Am
He spoke with javelina, slept 'neath piñon pine
G Am
And if he saw a billboard there, he'd chop that bastard down
F G Am
Said, if a man can't piss in his own front yard, he'd never keep close to town
[Chorus]
G
Singing do-ra-do
Am
Singing do-ra-day
F C E7 Am
Lord, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today
[Verse 3]
F G Am
Ed had a taste for women, in fact he married quite a few
G Am
He said, "I'd fall in love, boys, but I'm only passing through
G Am
You know I like 'em all, boys, and some more than the rest
F G Am
I've tried my hand at monogamy, now I'm off to save the west
[Chorus]
G
Singing do-ra-do
Am
Singing do-ra-day
[Verse 4]
F G Am
Ed died one day at sundown in his Tucson riding shack
G Am
They wrapped him in a sleeping bag and drove him way out back
G Am
Beneath the wild saguaro, the coyotes chewed his bones
F G Am
And on a hidden marker, was 'No Comment', carved in stone
[Chorus]
G
Singing do-ra-do
Am
Singing do-ra-day
F C E7 Am
Yeah, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today
[Verse 5]
F G Am
Now I'm living in the desert, but the town is a-closing in
G Am
Those cracker box developments, Ed would call a sin
G Am
We stole this land from the Mexican and now we'll sell it back
F G Am
And they'll live like mortgage prisoners in those goddamn housing tracts
[Verse 6]
F G Am
Tell me, who votes for the mountain lion, tell me, who votes for the fox
G Am
Who votes for the spotted owl who hides there in the rocks
G Am
I wish that Ed would come again with a chainsaw in his hand
F G Am
And carve all up those housing tracts and take on back the land
[Chorus]
G
Singing do-ra-do
Am
Singing do-ra-day
F C E7 Am
Yeah, I wish Edward Abbey were walking round today
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