《Patrick Russell》歌词

歌曲： Patrick Russell

所属专辑：The Man from God Knows Where

歌手： Tom Russell

时长： 04:20

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Patrick Russell - Tom Russell (汤姆罗素)[00:00:00]

My name is Patrick Russell I've led a Christian life[00:00:27]

I speak of family history as it's transcribed by my wife[00:00:35]

I sit here in New Hampton the year is nineteen ten[00:00:43]

Looking back from Iowa towards Mother Ireland [00:00:51]

I was born in Templemore in eighteen twenty five[00:01:00]

Recalled a happy boyhood until my mother died[00:01:08]

Starvation crept across the land America's our dream[00:01:15]

Six cruel weeks on stormy seas aboard the ship Tyrene [00:01:23]

American primitive man in an American primitive land[00:01:31]

I washed my face in a frying pan American primitive man [00:01:38]

At last we docked in old Quebec the English offered farm and ground[00:01:52]

But we'd lived too long under English rule to United States we're bound[00:01:59]

By train and then by cattle boat aw the filth down in that hold[00:02:08]

We landed in Milwalkee trekked 200 miles or more[00:02:15]

A sack of new potatoes was carried by each man[00:02:23]

Four spades for cultivation we'd brought from Ireland[00:02:30]

We worked at splitting railroad ties bought one old milking cow[00:02:39]

A quarter section uncleared land two oxen and a plough[00:02:46]

At night we heard the wolves howl on our newly purchased farm[00:02:54]

And starving lads from the civil war took shelter in our barn [00:03:02]

The Larsens and the Cooneys the Russells the Molloys[00:03:10]

We tilled the soil of Iowa and grew a spate of girls and boys [00:03:17]

American primitive man in an American primitive land[00:03:24]

A whiskey still in an oatmeal can American primitive man[00:03:32]

I'm an American primitive man[00:03:39]