Story Behind the Song
This song is inspired by my favorite Army cadence. Every time we sang it, it was like a reminder that the forms we signed to get in double as a death certificate.
Lyrics
I hear the choppers hovering
Hovering overhead
They've come to get the wounded
Forget about the dead
My buddy's in a foxhole
A bullet in his head
The medic says he's wounded
But I know that he's dead
Oh, airborne soldier fall
Like thunder from the sky
Oh, airborne fear the ground
You know you're going to die
I went to wake the C.O.
Lyin' in his bed
But when I rolled him over
The C.O. had no head
Oh, airborne soldier
Rain like thunder from the sky
Oh, airborne soldier
Fear the ground, you know you'll die
Oh, airborne, fear the ground
You know you're going to die
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