by Tom Russell on album Wounded Heart of America (Tom Russell Songs)

I've got 800 miles of open border Right outside my door There's minute men in little pick up trucks Who've declared their own damn war Now the government wants to build A barrier like old Berlin 8 fee

by Tom Russell on album Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology

I was born in Oklahoma, 1931 Outside the town of Spavinaw Where the red dust clouds the sun And I ran beneath your diamond skies And I drank your waves of grain My name is Mickey Mantle, boys And base

by Tom Russell on album Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology

He had a vision of Anne Marie With a rosary in her hand So it's exit the rainmaker The old gray flannel man With a closet full of business suits He left a letter near the phone It said, "I'm on my way

by Tom Russell on album Veteran's Day: The Tom Russell Anthology

He had a blue wing tattooed on his shoulder Well it might have been a blue bird I don't know But he'd get stone drunk and talk about Alaska The salmon boats and 45 below He said he got that blue wing

by Ian Tyson on album Cowboyography

Well it's two eggs up on whiskey toast, home fries on the side, Wash it down with road house coffee, burns up your insides, Just a canyon Colorado diner, and a waitress I did love, I sat in the back n

by Dave Alvin & Tom Russell on album The Best Of The Hightone Years

Dave Alvin/Tom Russell (Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI, and Frontera Music, ASCAP, administered by Bug Music) I'm just tryin' to make a livin' I'm an old man at thirty-nine With two kids and an ex-wife Wh

by Tom Russell on album Miscellaneous

Tom Russell Miscellaneous Born with a broken wing See the snowgeese up on high flying north in perfect line Hear the wail of loneliness from the one they left behind He’s calling for his brother

by Tom Russell on album The Man from God Knows Where

My name is Patrick Russell, I've led a Christian life I sit here in New Hampton, the year is 1910 Looking back from Iowa towards Mother Ireland. I was born in Templemore in 1825 Recalled a happy boyho

by Tom Russell & Iris DeMent on album The Man from God Knows Where

My name is Patrick Russell, I've led a Christian life I sit here in New Hampton, the year is nineteen ten Looking back from Iowa towards Mother Ireland. I was born in Templemore in eighteen twenty fi

by Tom Russell on album The Man From God Knows Where

Come gather round me children, a story I will tell I've been around since Jesus met the woman at the well I've walks these roads ten thousand years, I'm a ragtime millionaire I am the rake and the ram

by Tom Russell on album Blood And Candle Smoke

There are ghosts out in the rain tonight High up in those ancient trees Lord, I've given up without a fight Another blind fool on his knees And all the gods that I'd abandoned here Begin to speak in

by Tom Russell on album Mesabi

Have you ever seen Duluth? When the Great Lake waves are pounding? There must be some way out of there You might end up lost or drowning And the polkas at the Polish dance hall And the carnivals of s

by Tom Russell on album Mesabi

Second star to the right Straight on until morning, my little friend There's an island called Never Land Where childhood dreams never end Farewell, Never, Never Land Farewell, Never, Never Land Some

by Tom Russell on album Mesabi

Roll the credits, Johnny You up there in the projection booth Dream-time is over now Time to put our shoes on and hit the street But wasn't it beautiful? Didn't we forget About the sad times for a wh

by Tom Russell on album Mesabi

He was a Basque from San Sebastian, he came here in '51 Made his bones along the border in the Jai Alai frontons With a cesta on his hand he threw his heart against the wall He was the master of the d

by Tom Russell on album Blood And Candle Smoke

They are blessing the animals in the old Cathedral square Tonight they’ll bless the shoeshine boys, And baby I’ll be there For I need all the blessings to keep this heart at home To remember a

by Tom Russell on album Mesabi

Sterling Hayden on a barge in Amsterdam One of those backwater Dutch canals A bottle of Johnny Walker between his legs Drunk but articulate as hell He was saying, "Yeah, I ratted on people During the

by Tom Russell on album Mesabi

Juarez, I couldn't sleep tonight Juarez, you made me weep tonight Across the Rio Grande, I saw your poverty lights Goodnight, Juarez, good night Juarez, I used to paint the town Now you've gone and t

by Tom Russell on album Blood And Candle Smoke

I slept through the Nineteen Sixties I heard Dory Previn say But me I caught me the great white bird To the shores of African Where I lost my adolescent heart To the sound of a talking drum Yeah, eas

by Tom Russell on album Blood And Candle Smoke

Trains used to run All across Mexico Way down through the XXXXXXX Where ever in hell you know It was down in st XXXXXX That I first heard the sound Of Nina's voice on the juke box Xxxxxxxxxxxxx