Prairie Fire-Marty Robbins

[ti:Prairie Fire] [ar:Marty Robbins] [al:More Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Prairie Fire - Marty Robbins [00:02.27]While drivin' a herd of cattle out in old Nebraska way [00:11.04]Headin' east at Broken Bow one hot September day [00:14.53]Tryin' to get to Omaha we hoped to find a buyer [00:18.02]We never counted in the odds of a western prairie fire [00:21.47]A hot south wind was blowin' and the air was gettin' dry [00:25.08]Somethin' far away was spellin' trouble in the sky [00:28.72]Comin' closer was a sound that topped the devil's choir [00:32.24]Then we knew we had to race a raging prairie fire [00:41.20]When all at once a flame is seen a-lickin' at the sky [00:44.65]And every heart is quicker and there's fear in every eye [00:48.23]We'd just one chance to get away for there's no place to hide [00:51.86]Gotta reach the river Platte one inch deep and one mile wide [00:59.33]The herd is gettin' tired but we've got no time to rest [01:02.55]I try to clear the red dust that is gatherin' in my chest [01:06.18]From ridin' tail on a thousand head with the weather gettin' dry [01:09.81]The black cloud in the west is warning ride ride ride [01:12.88] [01:18.04]The roarin' heat is closer ashes fallin' by our side [01:21.56]And every breeze is burnin' singin' with its warnin' cry [01:25.23]We've got to reach the river but it's still ten miles or more [01:28.82]And close behind us we can hear that wind infernal roar [01:37.82]But fate had other plans for we lost that fatal race [01:41.38]We lost for neither man nor beast could long keep up the pace [01:45.22]The mighty Platte subdued its rage but none were there to rest [01:48.32]We did our best to get away but only I am left [01:53.05]Now on the blackened prairie far as the eye can see [01:56.71]The grim remains are there to show that God rules you and me [01:59.76]Just one he left to tell the tale just one was his desire [02:04.00]We lost our herd and thirty men to a raging prairie fire