《Patrick Russell》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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