D.B. Cooper

[Intro]

This is a song called "D.B. Cooper"

[Verse 1]

D.B. Cooper was forty-three when we first heard his name

Forty-seven miles away from where he fell down to his fame

But he told me that the hardest part

Wasn't really jumping out of that plane

It was spending the night

Watching those lights

Shine down through the pouring rain

[Verse 2]

They had a manhunt that next morning

Like nothing I had ever seen

I was only eight years old at the time

Watching on the TV screen

They were saying he was never goin' to make it now

Now that daylight had set in

But later that night

They were shining those lights

Down on the mountain again

[Chorus]

Not far away from the City of Roses

They all watched those lights up through the rain

For D.B. Cooper

[Verse 3]

So the cops blocked off all the exit roads

And they turned loose all of their hounds

They even dragged the river up a couple of times

To see if he had drowned

With all those men working overtime

They swore they would bring him down

But a parachute and a few hundred dollars

Is all that they've ever found

[Chorus]

Not far away from the City of Roses

They all watched those lights up through the rain

[Verse 4]

Now, some people say that he died up there

Somewhere in the rain and the wind

Other people say that he got away

But then his girlfriend did him in

The lawmen say if he's out there

Some day they're goin' to drag him in

As for me, I hope they never see

Ol' D.B. Cooper again

[Chorus]

Not far away from the City of Roses

Lights shine from a house out in the rain

It was D.B. Cooper

Drinking champagne

[Outro]

He's drinking champagne

He's drinking champagne