The 8th of November - Big & Rich - High Quality! Chords

_ _ _ _ _ _ Hello, I'm Chris Christofferson.
_ _ On November 8, 1965, the 173rd Airborne Brigade on Operation
Hump, War Zone D in [A] Vietnam, were ambushed by over 1,200 VC.
_ _ Forty-eight American soldiers
lost their lives that day. _ _
Severely wounded and risking his own life, Lawrence Joel, a
medic, was the first living black man since the Spanish-American War to receive the United
States Medal of Honor for saving so many lives in the midst of battle that day.
_ Our
friend Niles Harris, retired 25 years, United States Army, _ the guy who gave Big Kenny his
top hat, was one of the wounded who lived.
_ This song is his story. _
Caught in the action
of kill or be killed, greater [G] love hath no man than to lay [A] down his life for [D] a friend.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ Said [A]
goodbye to his mama as he left South [D] Dakota, [G]
fight for the red, [Dm] white, and blue.
He [A] was 19 and green with a new M-16, [G] just doing what he [D] had to do.
He [A] was dropped in
the jungle where the [D] choppers would rumble [G] with the smell of napalm [D] in the air.
_ [A] Then
the sergeant said, _ _ _ [G] look up ahead, _ _ _ [Dm] like a [A] dark evil cloud.
1,200 came down [G] on him and [D] 29
more.
_ [A] They fought for their lives, but most of them [D] died [G] in the _ _ [D] 173rd Airborne.
_ [A] On the
8th of November, the angels were crying [G] as they carried his [D] brothers away.
[A] With the fire
raining down and the hell all around, [G] there were few men left standing [D] that day.
Saw [F] the
eagle fly [G] through a clear blue sky, [F] _
_ 1965, [G] _ the 8th of [A]
November.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [A] Now he's 58, and he's
_ ponytail's gray, [G] but the battle still plays [D] in his head.
[A] He limps when he walks, but he's
strong when he talks.
[G] About the shrapnel that left [D] in his leg.
He [A] puts on a gray suit over
his airborne [D] tattoo, [G] and he ties it on one [D] time a year.
_ [A] And remembers the fallen as he
orders a [G] taunt, swallows it down [D] with his tears.
[A] On the 8th of November, the angels
were crying [G] as they carried his [D] brothers away.
[A] With the fire raining down and the hell all
around, [G] there were few men left standing [D] that day.
[F] Saw the eagle fly [G] through a clear blue
sky, [F] _
_ 1965, [G] _ _ the 8th of [A]
November.
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ Saw _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [F] the eagle fly [G] through a clear blue sky, [F] _
_ _ _ [G] 1965. _ _ _
[C] _ _ [A] On the
8th of November, the angels were [D] crying as they [G] carried his [D] brothers away.
[A] With the fire
raining down and the hell all around, there were [G] few men left standing that [D] day.
[A] On the
8th of November, the angels were crying [G] as they carried his [D] brothers away.
[A] With the fire
raining down and the hell all around, [G] there were few men left standing [D] that day.
[F] Saw the
eagle fly [G] through a clear blue sky, [F] _ _ _ [G] 1965, _ _ _ _ _ the 8th [A] of November.
_ [D] _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ The 8th [A] of November.
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ He [A] said goodbye to his mama as he left South Dakota [G]
to fight for the red, [D] white, and blue.
_ [A] He was 19 and green with a new M16, [G]
just doing what he had [D] to do. _
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