2 acessos
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-1 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 th 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 th 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 th 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 th of November [Instrumental] 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-1 G C Just doing what he had to do