Prairie Fire chords by
Marty Robbins

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Key: D minor•

Verse 1

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While drivin' a herd of cattle

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out in old Nebraska way

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Headin' east at Broken Bow

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on a hot September day

Tryin' to get to Omaha we

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hoped to find a buyer

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We never counted in the odds of

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a western prairie fire

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A hot south wind was blowin' and the

Verse 2

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air was gettin' dry

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Somethin' far away was spellin'

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trouble in the sky

Comin' closer was a sound that

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topped the devil's choir

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Then we knew we had to race

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a raging prairie fire

Verse 3

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C

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When all at once a flame

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A

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is seen a-lickin' at at the sky

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C

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And every heart has quickened

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A

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and there's fear in every eye

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We'd just one chance to get away

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for there's no place to hide

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Gotta reach the river Platte one inch

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deep and one mile wide

Verse 4

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The herd is gettin' tired but we've

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got no time to rest

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I try to clear the red dust that is

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gath erin' in my chest

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From ridin' tail on a thousand

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head with the weather gettin' dry

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The black cloud in the west is warning,

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"Ride, ride, ride"

Verse 5

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C

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The roarin' heat is closer

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A

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ashes fallin' by our side

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C

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And every beast and bird is fleein'

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A

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with its warnin' cry

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We've got to reach the river

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but it's still ten miles or more

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And close behind us we can

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hear that wild infernal roar

Verse 6

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But fate had other plans,

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for we lost that fatal race

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We lost for neither man nor beast

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could long keep up the pace

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The mighty Platte subdued its

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rage but none were there to rest

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We did our best to get away

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but only I am left

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Now on the blackened prairie, far

Verse 7

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as the eye can see

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C

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The grim re mains are there to

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A

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show that God rules you and me

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Just one he left to tell the tale just

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one was his de sire

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We lost our herd and thirty

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men to a raging prairie fire

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