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My name is Dodge  but then you know that 
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It's written on the chart there at the foot end of the of the bed 
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They think I'm blind that I can't read it 
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I've read it every word and every word it says is death 
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So confession Is that the reason that you came 
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Get it off my chest before I check out of the game 
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Since you mention it well there's thirteen things I'll name 
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Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters 
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August 49 North Montana 
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The hottest day on record the forest tinder dry 
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Lightning strikes in the mountains 
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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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Pick the drop zone C   comes in low 
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Feel the tap upon your leg that tells you go 
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See the circle of the fire down below 
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Fifteen of us dropped above the cold Missouri waters 
           D5             B5 
Gauged the fire I'd seen bigger 
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So I ordered them to side hill 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 even if we took it slow 
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But the fire crowned jumped the valley just ahead 
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There was no way down headed for the ridge instead 
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Too big to fight it we'd have to fight that slope instead 
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Flames one step behind above the cold Missouri waters 
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Sky had turned red smoke was boiling 
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Two hundred yards to saftey 
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Death was fifty yards behind 
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I don't know why I just thought it 
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I struck a match to waist high grass running out of time 
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Tried to tell them step into this fire I've set 
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We can't make it this is the only chance you'll get 
         B5 
But they cursed me 
            G5            D5 
Ran for the rocks above instead 
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I lay face down and prayed above the cold Missouri waters 
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Then when I rose like the phoenix 
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In that world reduced to ashes 
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There was none but two survived 
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I stayed that night and one day after 
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Carried bodies to the river 
          D5            A5 
Wondering how I stayed alive 
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Thirteen stations of the cross to mark their fall 
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I've had my say I'll confess to nothing more 
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I'll join them now those that they left me long before 
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Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters