The Firebreak Line

Well, I'ma cutting out a firebreak line

Cutting out a firebreak line

Digging down deep to the clean line

Cutting out a firebreak line

Well, I'm a wildfire fighting fool

Only if I'm on a hotshot crew

I can swamp a bail

I can walk through Hell

I'm an EMT and a torch man, too

The wind's blowing hot and dry

And the sparks in the center fly

I've made my stand of twenty good men

Better than a brothers you'll never find

Got them 'bout to make out mine

I'm cutting out a firebreak line

Well, I'ma cutting out a firebreak line

Cutting out a firebreak line

Digging down deep to the clean line

I'm cutting out a firebreak line

Ed Penlasky is a friend of mine

When I'm cutting out a firebreak line

He invented this thing like an axel swing

And I never left a member of his crew behind

And the fire never crossed the line

Took him down an abandoned mine

And it drew his guns so they shoot the first one

Baby, got him in a seven drive step outside

Got everybody out of line

Ed Penlasky is a friend of mine

And I'm cutting out a firebreak line

Cutting out a firebreak line

Digging down deep to the clean line

Cutting out a firebreak line

I'm cutting out a firebreak line

Cutting out a firebreak line

Digging down deep to the clean line

Cutting out a firebreak line

Gotta pray that the wind don't die

And it rains down from on high

I'ma raise a glass to the hot shot's pass

And hot shot heaven up above the sky

They're watching over me when I'm

Cutting out a firebreak line

Now I'm cutting out a firebreak line

Cutting out a firebreak line

Digging down deep to the clean line

I'm cutting out a firebreak line

I'm cutting out a firebreak line

Cutting out a firebreak line

Digging down deep to the clean line

I'm cutting out a firebreak line