Brothers Under The Bridge

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Saigon, it was all gone
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The same Coke machines
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As the streets I grew on
Down in a mesquite canyon
We come walking along the ridge
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Me and the brothers under the bridge
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Campsite's an hour's walk from the nearest road to town
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Up here there's too much brush and canyon
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For the CHP choppers to touch down
Ain't lookin' for nothin', just wanna live
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Me and the brothers under the bridge
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Come the Santa Ana's, man, that dry brush'll light
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Billy Devon got burned up in his own campfire one winter night
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We buried his body in the white stone high up along the ridge
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Me and the brothers under the bridge
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Had enough of town and the street life
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Over nothing you end up on the wrong end of someone's knife
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Now I don't want no trouble
And I ain't got none to give
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Me and the brothers under the bridge
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I come home in '72

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You were just a beautiul light
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In your mama's dark eyes of blue
I stood down on the tarmac, I was just a kid
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Me and the brothers under the bridge
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Come Veterans' Day I sat in the stands in my dress blues
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I held your mother's hand
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When they passed with the red, white and blue
One minute your'e out there
And something slips

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