Cifras
Cold Missouri Waters

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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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But 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, I prepared the boys to fly
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Picked the drop zone, C47 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
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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 safety, 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"
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But they cursed me, 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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                      Aah, aah, aah, aah
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                      Aah, aah, aah, aah
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Then when I rose like the phoenix
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In that world reduced to ashes, there were 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, 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 left me long before
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Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters
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Ooh, ooh, ooh