Todd Snider – Db Cooper (Guitar)

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D.B. Cooper was 43 when we first heard his name.

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47 miles away from where he fell down to his fame.

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But he told me that the hardest part wasn't really jumping out of the plane.

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It was spending the night, watching them lights shine through the pouring rain.

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They had a manhunt that next morning like nothing I had ever seen.

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I was only 8 years old at the time, watching on the TV screen.

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They were saying he was never gonna make it now, now that daylight had set in.

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But later that night they were shining a light down on the mountain again.

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  Not far away,     from the city of roses,

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 they all watched those lights up through the rain.

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For D.B. Cooper.

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Well, the cops blocked off all the exit roads and turned out all of the hounds.

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They even dragged the river up a couple of times to see if he had drowned.

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With all of those men working overtime well they swore they would bring him down.

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But a parachute and a few hundred dollars is all that they've ever found.

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  Not far away,     from the city of roses,

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 they all watched those lights up through the rain.

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Now some people say that he died up there, somewhere in the rain and the wind.

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Other people say that he got away, but then his girlfriend did him in.

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The lawmen say if he is out there, someday they're gonna drag him in.

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As for me, I hope they never see D.B. Cooper again.

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  Not far away,     from the city of roses,

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the lights shine from a house out in the rain

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It was D.B. Cooper

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drinkin' champagne.  Drinkin' champagne.