Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
as he left South Dakota
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To fight for the red, white and blue
with a new M-16
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Just doing what he had to do
where the choppers would rumble
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With the smell of napalm in the air
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Then the sergeant said, "Look up ahead"
Verse 2
Twelve hundred came down
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on him and twenty-nine more
but most of them died
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In the one- seventy- third Airborne
Chorus 1
the angels were crying
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As they carried his brothers away
and the hell all around
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There were few men left standing that day
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Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky
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Nineteen- sixty- five, the eighth of
Interlude 1
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(November)
Verse 3
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Now he's fifty-eight and his ponytail's gray
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But the battle still plays in his head
but he's strong when he talks
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'Bout the shrapnel they left in his leg
over his Airborne tattoo
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And he ties it on one time a year
as he orders a tall one
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And swallows it down with his tears
Chorus 2
the angels were crying
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As they carried his brothers away
and the hell all around
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There were few men left standing that day
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Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky
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Nineteen- sixty- five, the eighth of
Interlude 2
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(November)
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Bridge 1
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Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky
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Nineteen- sixty- five (sixty- five)
Chorus 3
the angels were crying
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As they carried his brothers away
and the hell all around
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There were few men left standing that day
the angels were crying
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As they carried his brothers away
and the hell all around
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There were few men left standing that day
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Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky
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Nineteen- sixty- five
Interlude 3
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(November)
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(The eighth of November)
Outro 1
as he left South Dakota
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To fight for the red, white and blue
with a new M-16
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D
Just doing what he had to do
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