Cold Missouri Waters chords by Richard Shindell
Intro 1
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My name's
Verse 1
Dutch,
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but then you know that
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It's written on the chart there
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at the foot en d of the bed
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They think I'm blind,
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that I can't read it
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But I've read it, every word,
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and every word it says is death
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So confession,
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is that the reason that you came?
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Get it off my chest,
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before I check out of the game
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since you mention it,
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well there's 13 things I'll name,
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13 crosses high
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above the cold Missouri waters
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August 49, West Montana
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the hottest day on record
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and the forest tinder dry,
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lightning strikes in the
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I was crew chief at the jump base,
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I prepared the boys to fly
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I picked the drops on C -47
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that comes in low
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Feel the tap upon your leg
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that tells you go
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See the circle of the
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fire down below
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And fifteen of us trapped
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above the cold Missouri waters
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I gauged the fire, and I'd seen bigger
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So I ordered them to side -hill,
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and we'd fight it from below
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We'd have our backs to the river
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We'd have it licked by morning,
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even if we took it slow
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But the fire crowned,
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jumped the valley just ahead
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There was no way down,
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headed for the ridge instead
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Too big to fight it,
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we'd have to fight that slope instead
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The flame was one step behind
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above the cold misery wa
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ters
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Sky turned red, smoke was boiling
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200 yards to safety,
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death was 50 yards behind
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I don't know why, I just thought it
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I struck a match to waste high grass,
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runnin' out of time
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I tried to tell them,
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step into this fire I've set
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You can't make it,
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this is the only chance you'll get
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But they cursed me,
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and ran for the rocks above instead,
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and I lay face down and prayed
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above the cold Missouri waters.
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And when I rose like a phoenix
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And that world reduced to ashes
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There were none but two who survived
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I stayed that night
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And one day after
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I carried bodies to the river
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Wondering how I stayed
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alive
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Thirteen stations of the cross
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To mark their fall
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And I've had my say
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I'll confess to nothing more
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An d I'll join them now
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those that left me long before.
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Thirteen crosses high above the
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cold Missouri waters.
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Thirteen crosses high
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above the cold Missouri shore.
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Oh -oh, -oh, oh oh -oh.
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Oh -oh, oh oh oh -oh.
Heavy single down it we want it.
You
Cold Missouri Waters
Richard Shindell
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