^ASaid goodbye to his momma as he left South Dakota ^Gto fight fot the red white and ^Cblue ^AHe was nineteen in green with a new M-16 ^GJust doing what he had to ^Cdo ^AHe was dropped in the jungle where the choppers would rumble ^GWith the smell of napalm in the ^Cair ^AAnd the seargent said ^GLook up ahea^Cd ^ALike a dark evil cloud twelve hundred came down ^GOn him and twenty-nine ^Cmore ^AThey fought for their lives but most of them died ^GIn the 173rd ^Cairborne CHORUS: ^AOn the 8th of November the angels were crying ^GAs they carried his brothers ^Caway ^AWith the fire raining down and the hell all around ^GThere were few men left standing that ^Cday ^ASaw an eagle fly through a clear blue sky ^GNineteen-sixty-^Cfive the 8th of ^ANovember ^{G C A}Now he's fifty-eight and his pony tail's gray ^GBut the battle still plays in his ^Chead ^AHe limps when he walks but he's strong when he talks ^GAbout the shrapnell they left in his ^Cleg ^AHe puts on a suit over his airborne tatoo ^GHe ties it on one time a ^Cyear ^AHe remembers the fallen as he orders a tall one ^GAnd swallows it down with his ^Ctears CHORUS: ^AOn the 8th of November the angels were crying ^GAs they carried his brothers ^Caway ^AWith the fire raining down and the hell all around ^GThere were few men left standing that ^Cday ^ASaw an eagle fly through a clear blue sky ^GNineteen-sixty-^Cfive the 8th of ^ANovember ^{G C A}Saw an eagle fly through a clear blue sky ^GNineteen-sixty-^Cfive ^AOn the eighth of november the angels were crying ^GAs they carried his brothers ^Caway ^AWith the fire raining down and the hell all around ^GThere were few men left standing that ^Cday ^AOn the eighth of november the angels were crying ^GAs they carried his brothers ^Caway ^AWith the fire raining down and the hell all around ^GThere were few men left standing that ^Cday ^ASaw an eagle fly through a clear blue sky ^GNineteen-sixty-^Cfive the 8th of ^ANovember ^{G C A G C A}Said goodbye to his momma as he left South Dakota ^Gto fight fot the red white and ^Cblue ^AHe was nineteen in green with a new M-16 ^GJust doing what he had to ^Cdo