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8th of November [Spoken Intro]
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Big & Rich
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He said goodbye to his momma
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As he left South Dakota
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To fight for the red white and blue
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He was nineteen and green with a new M-16
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Just doing what he had to do
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He was dropped in the jungle
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Where the choppers would rumble
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With the smell of napalm in the air
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The the Sargent said:
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"Look up ahead"
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Like a dark evil cloud
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Twelve hundred came down
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On him and twenty nine more
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They fought for their lives
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But most of them died
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In the 173rd airborne
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[Chorus]
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On the eighth of November
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The angels were crying
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As they carried his brothers away
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With the fire raining down
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And the hell all around
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There were few men left standing that day
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Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky
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1965, the eighth of November
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Now he's fifty eight and his ponytail's gray
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But the battle still plays in his head
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He limps when he walks
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But he's strong when he talks
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About the shrapnel
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They left in his leg
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He puts on a grey suit
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Over his airborne tattoo
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And he ties it on one time a year
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And remembers the fallen
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As he orders a tall-one
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And swallows it down with his tears
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[Chorus]
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Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky
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1965
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On the eighth of November
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The angels were crying
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As they carried his brothers away
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With the fire raining down
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And the hell all around
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There were few men left standing that day
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[Chorus]
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Eighth of November
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He said goodbye to his momma
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As he left South Dakota
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To fight for the red white and blue
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He was nineteen and green with a new M-16
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Just doing what he had to do
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