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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When all at once a flame
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is seen a-lickin' at at the sky
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And every heart has quickened
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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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gatherin' 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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The roarin' heat is closer
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ashes fallin' by our side
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And every beast and bird is fleein'
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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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The grim remains are there to
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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 desire
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We lost our herd and thirty
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men to a raging prairie fire

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