St. Olaf College

Global Semester

1978-1979

Itinerary

Program

Reunion 1  Reunion 2

Group

"Cairo...Cairo"

"India...mmm"

"All Around the World,

Plate Tectonics"

"So Long Ago"

by Tom Russell

Alkali

 Here's mud in your eye

Lost in the desert

25 years or more

Whiskey streams

Goldfield dreams

Lady Luck won't let you dark her door

And they tell me

You are a ghost of a man

Yes I believe it's true

And they say

You had a woman once

She turned her back on you

You old gold-minin' hobo

Dry-well

Desert rat

Alkali

Put the bacon on to fry

Sun's comin' up and the mule's wait'n for his grain

A one room shack

By the Santa Fe tracks

An ole lick of Earth

Screamin' for a drop of rain

There's a time for work

And a time for play

And a time for lyin' down

And the road might lead

To the rainbows end

Or a dusty old desert town

Alkali

There's a buzzard in the sky

Countin' his chances on pickin' yer skinflint bones

Raise your hand

Throw a curse on the land

Gonna find you someday

Lyin' 'neath an unmarked stone

The desert is a lonely place

For a man to lose his head

They tell me when you start to

Talkin' with yourself

Ya might as well

Be

Dead...

Note:  Pam's version is slightly different from the original lyrics above...