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One coal black night of a Colorado winter
It snowed on Red Mountain Pass We warned everybody that the slides was runnin' An' Five-Five-Oh was a mess But outta the plow shed south of town Come a blade with a flashin' blue light We told that boy "Whatever you do, Beware of the Riverside Slide" Well that plow jockey knew he had a job to do Been dodgin' them slides fer years And we all knew deep down inside He was livin' with a thing called fear Cause you don't mess around with an avalanche son A lotta men tried and died Yeah, you get them plows past Bear Crick Falls You lookin' at the Riverside Slide Now all a us folks around Ouray County Seen a lotta them cold, black nights When the only thing movin' is a big ol' plow Flashin' them wierd blue lights You drive them snowplows around these parts You gotta have a real thick hide Cause you never quite know what time of the night You gonna die in the Riverside Slide Well it snowed six feet on the mountain that night An' we knew what was comin' on down An' so did the boy an his flashin' blue light When he rolled that blade outta town Well he took that plow up Five-Five-Oh An' he felt it lean to one side An' before he knew it, he was buried alive At the bottom of the Riverside Slide Yeah all a us folks around Ouray County Seen a lotta them cold, black nights When the only thing movin' is a big ol' plow Flashin' them wierd blue lights We found the boy in the early spring Still settin' the plow on it's side Yeah you never quite know what time of the night You gonna die in the Riverside Slide |
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