Patrick Russell-Tom Russell

[ti:Patrick Russell（with Iris DeMent）] [ar:Tom Russell] [al:The man from god knows where] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Patrick Russell - Tom Russell (汤姆罗素) [00:27.93]My name is Patrick Russell I've led a Christian life [00:32.99] [00:35.39]I speak of family history as it's transcribed by my wife [00:41.06] [00:43.29]I sit here in New Hampton the year is nineteen ten [00:48.72] [00:51.22]Looking back from Iowa towards Mother Ireland [00:55.35] [01:00.85]I was born in Templemore in eighteen twenty five [01:06.03] [01:08.27]Recalled a happy boyhood until my mother died [01:13.05] [01:15.98]Starvation crept across the land America's our dream [01:21.65] [01:23.29]Six cruel weeks on stormy seas aboard the ship Tyrene [01:28.80] [01:31.05]American primitive man in an American primitive land [01:36.73] [01:38.79]I washed my face in a frying pan American primitive man [01:43.30] [01:52.97]At last we docked in old Quebec the English offered farm and ground [01:58.62] [01:59.94]But we'd lived too long under English rule to United States we're bound [02:05.54] [02:08.23]By train and then by cattle boat aw the filth down in that hold [02:13.86] [02:15.86]We landed in Milwalkee trekked 200 miles or more [02:21.22] [02:23.66]A sack of new potatoes was carried by each man [02:29.00] [02:30.89]Four spades for cultivation we'd brought from Ireland [02:37.11] [02:39.13]We worked at splitting railroad ties bought one old milking cow [02:44.84] [02:46.91]A quarter section uncleared land two oxen and a plough [02:53.02] [02:54.77]At night we heard the wolves howl on our newly purchased farm [03:00.28] [03:02.39]And starving lads from the civil war took shelter in our barn [03:07.70] [03:10.07]The Larsens and the Cooneys the Russells the Molloys [03:15.19] [03:17.66]We tilled the soil of Iowa and grew a spate of girls and boys [03:22.85] [03:24.94]American primitive man in an American primitive land [03:30.80] [03:32.68]A whiskey still in an oatmeal can American primitive man [03:37.78] [03:39.91]I'm an American primitive man