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My name is Dodge but then you know thatIt'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 itI've read it every word and every word it says is deathSo confession Is that the reason that you came Get it off my chest before I check out of the gameSince you mention it well there's thirteen things I'll nameThirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri watersAugust 49 North MontanaThe hottest day on record the forest tinder dry Lightning strikes in the mountainsI was crew chief at the jump baseI prepared the boys to fly Pick the drop zone C47 comes in lowFeel the tap upon your leg that tells you goSee the circle of the fire down belowFifteen of us dropped above the cold Missouri watersSongtexteGauged the fire I'd seen biggerSo I ordered them to side hill we'd fight it from belowWe'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 insteadFlames one step behind above the cold Missouri watersSky had turned red smoke was boilingTwo hundred yards to saftey Death was fifty yards behind I don't know why I just thought itI 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 insteadI lay face down and prayed above the cold Missouri watersThen when I rose like the phoenixIn that world reduced to ashes There was none but two survivedI stayed that night and one day afterCarried bodies to the riverWondering how I stayed alive Thirteen stations of the cross to mark their fall I've had my say I'll confess to nothing moreI'll join them now those that they left me long beforeThirteen crosses high above the cold Missouri waters Aus Songtexte Mania