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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> Written and recorded by Tom Russell
> From the CD ?Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs
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> Pancho Villa crossed the border, in the year of ought-sixteen
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> The people of Columbus, still hear him riding through their dreams
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> He killed seventeen civilians, you could hear the women scream
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> Black Jack Pershing on a dancing horse, was waiting in the wings
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> Am Em
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
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> We'll skin old Pancho Villa, and make chaps out of his hide
> Am F
> Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas, and his twenty-seven brides
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> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
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> We rode for three long years, 'till Black Jack Pershing called it quitsn Jack wasn't
I stole his fine spade bit
> It was tied upon his stallion, so I rode away on it
> To the wild Chihauhan desert, so dry you couldn't spit
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> Tonight we ride, you bastards dare
> We'll kill the wild Apache, for the bounty on his hair
> Then we'll ride into Durango, climb up the whorehouse stairs
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
>
> When I'm too damned old to sit a horse, I'll steal the Warden's car
> Break my ass out of this prison, leave my teeth there in a jar
> You don't need no teeth for kissin' galls, or smokin' cheap cigars
> I'll sleep with one eye open, 'neath God's celestial stars
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> Tonight we rock, Tonight we roll
> We'll rob the Juarez liquor store, for the Rey Posada gold
> And if we drink ourselves to death, ain't that the cowboy way to go?
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
>
> Tonight we fly, we're heading west
> Toward the mountains and the ocean, where the eagle makes it's nest
> And if our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride,
> Written and recorded by Tom Russell
> From the CD ?Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs
>> C
F C
> Pancho Villa crossed the border, in the year of ought-sixteen
> G
> The people of Columbus, still hear him riding through their dreams
> Am F
> He killed seventeen civilians, you could hear the women scream
> C G
> Black Jack Pershing on a dancing horse, was waiting in the wings
>
> Am Em
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
> F C G
> We'll skin old Pancho Villa, and make chaps out of his hide
> Am F
> Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas, and his twenty-seven brides
> C F C
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
>
> We rode for three long years, 'till Black Jack Pershing called it quitsn Jack wasn't
I stole his fine spade bit
> It was tied upon his stallion, so I rode away on it
> To the wild Chihauhan desert, so dry you couldn't spit
>
> Tonight we ride, you bastards dare
> We'll kill the wild Apache, for the bounty on his hair
> Then we'll ride into Durango, climb up the whorehouse stairs
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
>
> When I'm too damned old to sit a horse, I'll steal the Warden's car
> Break my ass out of this prison, leave my teeth there in a jar
> You don't need no teeth for kissin' galls, or smokin' cheap cigars
> I'll sleep with one eye open, 'neath God's celestial stars
>
> Tonight we rock, Tonight we roll
> We'll rob the Juarez liquor store, for the Rey Posada gold
> And if we drink ourselves to death, ain't that the cowboy way to go?
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride
>
> Tonight we fly, we're heading west
> Toward the mountains and the ocean, where the eagle makes it's nest
> And if our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed
> Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride,
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