The Firebreak Line Lyrics - Steve Earle

[CHORUS] 

Well, I'm cuttin out a firebreak line 

Cuttin out a firebreak line 

Digging down deep to the clay and lime 

cuttin out a firebreak line 

[VERSE 1] 

Well I'm a wildfire fighting fool 

from the Yellow mountain hotshot crew 

I can swamp and fell 

I can walk through 

I'm an EMT and a torchman too 

When the wind's blowin hot and dry 

And the sparks and the cinders fly 

I'll make my stand with 20 good men 

A better band of brother's you'll never find 

I got their back and they got mine 

Cuttin out a firebreak line 

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[CHORUS] 

[VERSE 2] 

Ed Pulaski is a friend of mine 

When I'm cuttin out a firebreak line 

He invented this thing like an axe I swing 

and he never left a member of his crew behind 

When the fire jumped across the line 

Took em down an abandoned mine 

Then he drew his gun, said he'd shoot the first one 

that got it in his head to try and step outside 

Got everybody out alive 

Cuttin out a firebreak line 

[CHORUS] 

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[Verse 3] 

Gotta pray that the wind'll die 

and it rains down from on high 

Let's raise a glass to the hotshots past 

in hotshot heaven up above the sky 

Lookin down on me when I'm 

cuttin' out a firebreak line