เพลง 8th of November (Recorded Live at TGL Farms)

hello I'm

Kris kristofferson

On November 8th 1965 the 173rd

Airborne brigade on

Operation

Hump war zone

D in vietnam were ambushed by over 1200

V c forty eight

American soldiers lost their lives that day

Severely wounded and riskin' his own life

Lawrence joll a medic

Was the first livin' black man since the

Spanish american

Warto receive the

United states

Medal of honor

For savin' so many lives in the midst of battle that day

Our friend

Nialls harris retired 25 years

United states

Armythe 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 love hath no man than to lay down his life for a friend

Said goodbye to his momma as he left

South dakota

To fight for the

Red white and

Bluehe was nineteen and green with a new

M 16just doin' what he had to do

He was dropped in the jungle

Where the choppers would rumble

With the smell of napalm in the air

Then the sergeant said look up ahead

Like a dark evil cloud 1200 came down

On him and 29 more

They fought for their lives but most of them died

In the 173rd

Airborneon the 8th of

November the angels were cryin'

As they carried his brothers away

With the fire rainin' down and the hell all around

There were few men left standin' that day

Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky1965 the 8th of

Novembernow he's 58 and his pony tail's gray

But the battle still plays in his head

He limps when he walks but he's strong when he talks'

Bout the shrapnel they left in his leg

He puts on a gray suit over his

Airborne tattoo

And he ties it on one time a year

And remembers that fallen as he orders a tall one

And swallows it down with his tears

On the 8th of

November the angels were cryin'

As they carried his brothers away

With the fire rainin' down and the hell all around

There were few men left standin' that day

Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky1965 the 8th of

Novembersaw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky1965

1965

On the 8th of

November the angels were cryin'

As they carried his brothers away

With the fire rainin' down and the hell all around

There were few men left standin' that day

On the 8th of

November the angels were cryin'

As they carried his brothers away

With the fire rainin' down and the hell all around

There were few men left standin' that day

Saw the eagle fly through a clear blue sky1965 the 8th of

November8th of

November

8th of November

Said goodbye to his

Momma as he left

South dakota

To fight for the

Red white and

Bluehe was nineteen and green with a new

M 16just doin' what he had to do