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Artist/Band: Tom Russell
Lyrics for Song: East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam
Lyrics for Album: Blood and Candle Smoke [2009]



I slept through the Nineteen Sixties, I heard Dory Previn say

But me I caught me the great white bird, to the shores of Africay

Where I lost my adolescent heart, to the sound of a talking drum

Yeah, East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam



And on the roads outside Oshogbo, Lord I fell down on my knees

There were female spirits in old mud huts,

iron bells ringing up in the trees

And an eighty-year-old white priest, she made juju all night long

Yeah, East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam



Raise high the roof beams carpenter boy, yeah we're coming through the rye

In the cinema I saw the man on the moon, I laughed so hard I cried

It was somewhere in those rainy seasons, that I learned to carve my song

Yeah, East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam



Oh Africa, Mother Africa, you lay heavy on my breast

You old cradle of civilization, heart of darkness blood and death



Though we had to play you running scared, when the crocodile ate the sun

Yeah, East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam



Well I think it's going to rain tonight, I can smell it coming off the sea

As I sit here reading old Graham Greene I taste Africa on every page

Then I close my eyes and see those red clay roads,

and it's sundown and boys I'm gone

Yeah, East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam



Raise high the roof beams carpenter boy, yeah we're coming through the rye

It was a moveable feast of war and memory, a dark old lullaby

It was the smoke of a thousand camp fires, it was the wrong end of a gun,

Yeah, East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam.



Yeah, East of Woodstock, West of Vietnam


Album Lyrics: Blood and Candle Smoke [2009]


Tom Russell
"Blood and Candle Smoke [2009]"


1. East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam
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3. Mississippi River Runnin' Backwards