Key: C major•
Intro 1
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Dm
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Verse 1
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is Dodge but then you know that
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It's written on the chart there at the
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I can't read it
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word it says is death
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reason that you came
Verse 2
my chest before I
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check out of the game
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Since you mention it well there's
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Thirteen crosses high above
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the cold Missouri waters
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August 49 North Montana
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forest tinder dry
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Lightning strikes in the mountains
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I prepared the boys to fly
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Pick the drop zone C47 comes in low
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that tells you go
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See the circle of the fire down below
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Fifteen of us dropped above the cold
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Missouri wa ters
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Gauged the fire I'd seen bigger
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fight it from below
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We'd have our backs to the river
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even if we took it slow
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the valley just ahead
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for the ridge instead
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fight that slope instead
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Flames one step behind above
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the cold Missouri waters
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Sky had turned red smoke was boiling
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Death was fifty yards behind
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I don't know why I just thought it
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grass running out of time
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into this fire I've set
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only chance you'll get
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Ran for the rocks above instead
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I lay face down and prayed above the
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cold Missouri wa ters
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Then when I rose like the phoenix
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There was none but two survived
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I stayed that night and one day after
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Carried bodies to the river
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Wondering how I stayed alive
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cross to mark their fall
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fess to nothing more
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they left me long before
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Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters
Outro 1
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