Lyr Add: Tom Russell Songs

04 Jul 20 - 10:26 PM (#4062874)
Subject: Lyr Add: Tom Russell Songs
From: Joe Offer

I'd hat to see this one get lost....

Thread #160951   Message #3820303

Posted By: bradfordian

13-Nov-16 - 09:06 AM

Thread Name: Song for America ["Who's Gonna Build... "-Russell]

Subject: Review: Song for America

In the days,weeks, months ahead maybe we can give some pointers to the new President Elect of the U.S. of A.

WHO'S GONNA BUILD YOUR WALL by TOM RUSSELL
Ive got 800 miles of open border
Right outside my door
Theres minute men in little pick up trucks
Whove declared their own damn war

Now the government wants to build
A barrier like old Berlin 8 feet tall
But if uncle Sam sends the illegals home
Whos gonna build the wall?

Whos gonna build your wall boys?
Whos gonna mow your lawn?
Whos gonna cook your Mexican food
When your Mexican maid is gone?

Whos gonna wax the floors tonight
Down at the local mall?
Whos gonna wash your babys face?
Whos gonna build your wall?

Now I aint got no politics
So dont lay that rap on me
Left wing, right wing, up wing, down wing
I see strip malls from sea to shining sea

Its the fat cat white developer
Whos created this whole damn squall
Its a pyramid scheme of dirty jobs
And whos gonna build your wall?

Whos gonna build your wall boys?
Whos gonna mow your lawn?
Whos gonna cook your Mexican food
When your Mexican maid is gone?

Whos gonna wax the floors tonight
Down at the local mall?
Whos gonna wash your babys face?
Whos gonna build your wall?

Weve got fundamentalist Moslem's
Weve got fundamentalist Jews
Weve got fundamentalist Christians
Theyll blow the whole thing up for you

But as I travel around this big old world
Theres one thing that I most fear
Its a white man in a golf shirt
With a cell phone in his ear

Whos gonna build your wall boys?
Whos gonna mow your lawn?
Whos gonna cook your Mexican food
When your Mexican maid is gone?

Whos gonna wax the floors tonight
Down at the local mall?
Whos gonna wash your babys face?
Whos gonna build your wall?

Published by FRONTERA MUSIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZkAoosVLkA


There must be lots of advice by way of song, that we can help Don to point the country in the right direction....

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06 Jul 20 - 10:18 PM (#4063179)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Tom Russell Songs
From: robomatic

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

       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

Cropduster

    C      F C F C F C F C

Cropduster

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