Тональность: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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then you know that
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It's written on the chart there,
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at the foot end of my bed
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They think that I am blind,
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that I can't read it
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Well, I've read that chart there,
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every word, every word spells death
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My confession, I know that's
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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 asked me,
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there are 13 things I'll name
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13 crosses high
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above the cold Missouri water
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It was August of 49 in North Montana
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It was the hottest day on record
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and the forest was tinder dry
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Lightning struck in the
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gates of the mountains
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I was crew chief at the jump base,
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I prepared my boys to fly
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I picked the drop zone,
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C -47 swooped in low
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I gave the tap upon each leg
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to tell them go
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I watched the circle of the fire down below
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Fifteen of us jumped,
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above the cold Missouri water
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I gauged the fire, 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 keep our backs,
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to the Missouri river
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We'd have this one out by morning,
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even if we took it slow.
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With the fire crown,
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it jumped the coulee just ahead.
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There was no way down,
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so we headed for the ridge in stead.
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But the fire exploded,
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and it chased us up that slope ahead.
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Flames one step behind,
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above the cold Missouri waters.
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The sky had turned to red,
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black smoke was boiling.
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200 yards to safety,
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death was 50 steps behind
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I don't know why, I just did it
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I touched a match to waste high grass
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cause we were running out of time
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I shouted to them,
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step inside 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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ran for the rocks above instead
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I lay face down and I prayed
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above the cold Missouri waters
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And when I rose, like the phoenix,
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The world was burned to ashes,
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and there were only two survived.
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I worked all that night,
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and all of the next day.
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I carried my dead boys to the river,
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wondered why was I alive.
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Thirteen stations of the cross
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I've told you, I can tell you nothing more
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But I'll join them now,
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because they left me long before
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Thirteen voices high
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above the cold Missouri waters
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Thirteen faces high
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above the cold Missouri waters
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Thirteen crosses high
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above the cold Missouri
Outro 1
shore.
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