29 Mile Fire Lyrics

My name is Jody Baines

And I work this valley land

I raise some stock, I grow some crops

I like to use my hands

It's never been an easy life

It's a struggle to make ends meet

But we loved our little paradise

The morning air that smelled so sweet

The summer was so blister dry

It was a hard to keep things going

Seems like years since it's rained

And the hot wind keeps on blowing

Then late one night we got a call

About a big burn up on 29 Mile Peak

We saw the glow up on the ridge

And the smoke down by the creek

We grabbed what we could

Threw it in the pickup bed

We loaded up the kids

Jumped in our truck and fled

It was hard to leave it all behind

Lord knows I'm still in shock

A man learns what he loves most

When he's between a hard place and a rock

We looked up from town

And saw the smoke fill the sky

That's when Jenny turned to me

And she began to cry

I held her close as the flames ran higher

The night we lost our home to the 29 Mile Fire

The flames ran higher

The smoke filled the sky

The night we lost our home to the 29 Mile Fire

Now our home's a smoking ruin

Our land is burned and black

There's no place here for us now

There ain't no going back

I'd heard people say the weather's changed for good

But I would never buy it

I look around me now and wonder

Can I deny it

We looked up from town

And saw the smoke fill the sky

That's when Jenny turned to me

And she began to cry

I held her close as the flames ran higher

The night we lost our home to the 29 Mile Fire

The night we lost our home to the 29 Mile Fire