Cold Missouri Waters Lyrics - Cry Cry Cry

My name is Dodge but then you know that 

It's written on the chart there at the foot end of the of the bed 

They think I'm blind that I can't read it 

I've read it every word and every word it says is death 

So confession Is that the reason that you came 

Get it off my chest before I check out of the game 

Since you mention it well there's thirteen things I'll name 

Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters 

August 49 North Montana 

The hottest day on record the forest tinder dry 

Lightning strikes in the mountains 

I was crew chief at the jump base 

I prepared the boys to fly 

Pick the drop zone C47 comes in low 

Feel the tap upon your leg that tells you go 

See the circle of the fire down below 

Fifteen of us dropped above the cold Missouri waters 

Gauged the fire I'd seen bigger 

So I ordered them to side hill we'd fight it from below 

We'd have our backs to the river 

We'd have it licked by morning even if we took it slow 

But the fire crowned jumped the valley just ahead 

There was no way down headed for the ridge instead 

Too big to fight it we'd have to fight that slope instead 

Flames one step behind above the cold Missouri waters 

Sky had turned red smoke was boiling 

Two hundred yards to saftey 

Death was fifty yards behind 

I don't know why I just thought it 

I struck a match to waist high grass running out of time 

Tried to tell them step into this fire I've set 

We can't make it this is the only chance you'll get 

But they cursed me 

Ran for the rocks above instead 

I lay face down and prayed above the cold Missouri waters 

Then when I rose like the phoenix 

In that world reduced to ashes 

There was none but two survived 

I stayed that night and one day after 

Carried bodies to the river 

Wondering how I stayed alive 

Thirteen stations of the cross to mark their fall 

I've had my say I'll confess to nothing more 

I'll join them now those that they left me long before 

Thirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters