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Thread #168189 Message #4063179
Posted By: robomatic
06-Jul-20 - 10:18 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Tom Russell Songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tom Russell Songs
Tom Russell wrote a song I heard quite briefly in December 1984 and tried off and on for years to locate until I found, as a volunteer at a radio station, that while I didn't then have the song already in my library, I did have its composer because I auditioned The Man From God Knows Where.
He made it to Alaska some time ago and I got to hear him in the same room. And found some coworkers of mine next to me in the audience.
Tom Russell - Cropduster
## NOTE: ~ ~ ~ ~ = Walk-Down from G to F starting on the open G-string ##
[Intro]
C F C F C F C F C
[Verse 1]
G C F
I love to see those Puerto Rican ladies
C G
Standing in the carrot fields at dawn
F G
With their short handled hoes
C Am Dm
And their legs so brown and slender
G ~ ~ ~
Singing out the verses to a Puerto Rican song
[Chorus]
~ F C Dm7 C F
But I'm flying too close to the ground again
C Dm7 C G
Looks like I'm gonna lay her down again, in a field of green
Dm G Dm
Let 'em harvest my blood off the vines
G Dm
Turn it into some exotic wine
F G
Cabernet Sauvignon Cropduster '49
C F C F C F C F C
Cropduster
[Verse 2]
G C F
I love to see those cabbage rows at sunrise
C G C
Sunlight reflecting on the dew
G C F
I love the smell of onions in the evening
C G
Tomato fields against a sky of blue
[Chorus] (fade to end)
F C Dm7 C F
But I'm flying too close to the ground again
C Dm7 C G
Looks like I'm gonna lay her down again, in a field of green