The Firebreak Line

[Chorus]

Well, I'm a-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

On the Yellow Mountain hotshot crew

I can swamp and fell

I can walk through hell

I'm an EMT and a torch-man too

When the wind's blowin' hot and dry

And the sparks and the cinders fly

I'll make my stand with twenty good men

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

Got their back and they got mine

I'm cuttin' out a firebreak line

[Chorus]

Well, I'm cuttin' out a firebreak line

Cuttin' out a firebreak line

Digging down deep to the clay and lime

I'm cuttin' out a firebreak line

[Verse 2]

Ed Pulaski is a friend of mine

When I'm cuttin' out a firebreak line

He invented this thing like an ax 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

Ed Pulaski is a friend of mine

[Chorus]

And 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

Woo!

[Chorus]

Cuttin' out a firebreak line

Cuttin' out a firebreak line

Digging down deep to the clay and lime

Cuttin' out a firebreak line

[Verse 3]

Gotta pray that the wind'll die

And it rains down from on high

I will raise a glass to the hotshots past

In hotshot heaven up above the sky

They're watchin' over me when I'm

Cuttin' out a firebreak line

[Chorus]

Now I'm cuttin' out a firebreak line

Cuttin' out a firebreak line

Digging down deep to the clay and lime

I'm cuttin' out a firebreak line

Whoa I'm cuttin' out a firebreak line

Cuttin' out a firebreak line

I'm digging down deep to the clay and lime

I'm cuttin' out a firebreak line