intro: A G C

Verse:
A
Said goodbye to his momma as he left south dakota
G                              C
to fight fot the red white and blue

A 
He was nineteen in green with a new M-16 
G                         C
Just doing what he had to do

A 
He was dropped in the jungle where the choppers would rumble
G                               C
With the smell of napalm in the air

A
And the seargent said
G           C
Look up ahead

A
Like a dark evil cloud twelve hundred came down
G                      C
On him and twenty-nine more

A
They fought for their lives but most of them died
G            C
In the 173rd airborne

Chorus:
A
On the 8th of November the angels were crying 
G                            C 
As they carried his brothers away

A
With the fire raining down and the hell all around
G                                     C
There were few men left standing that day

A
Saw an eagle fly through a clear blue sky
G              C
Nineteen-sixty-five
           A        G      C
the 8th of November

A
Now he's fifty-eight and his pony tail's gray
G                                 C
But the battle still plays in his head

A
He limps when he walks but he's strong when he talks
G                                    C
About the shrapnell they left in his leg

A
He puts on a suit over his airborne tatoo
G                        C 
He ties it on one time a year

A
He remembers the fallen as he orders a tall one
G                             C
And swallows it down with his tears

Chorus:
A
On the 8th of November the angels were crying 
G                            C
As they carried his brothers away

A
With the fire raining down and the hell all around
G                                     C
There were few men left standing that day 

A
Saw an eagle fly through a clear blue sky
G              C
Nineteen-sixty-five
           A        G      C
the 8th of November

A
Saw an eagle fly through a clear blue sky
G              C
Nineteen-sixty-five

A
On the eighth of november the angels were crying 
G                            C
As they carried his brothers away

A
With the fire raining down and the hell all around
G                                     C
There were few men left standing that day

A
On the eighth of november the angels were crying 
G                            C
As they carried his brothers away

A
With the fire raining down and the hell all around
G                                     C
There were few men left standing that day 

A
Saw an eagle fly through a clear blue sky
G              C
Nineteen-sixty-five
           A        G      C
the 8th of November

A          G         C

Verse:
A
Said goodbye to his momma as he left south dakota
G                              C
to fight fot the red white and blue

A 
He was nineteen in green with a new M-16 
G                         C
Just doing what he had to do