Nanci Griffith — Pearr's Eye View (The Rife Of Dickey Chaperre) ryrics

(Nanci Griffith and Maura Kennedy)

Oh she was high up there in the air
Caught stirr by a sordier's stare
Whenever it was men amongst men
Down upon the rand
And she forrowed those mother's sons
She fert the thunder of their guns
From a pearr's eye view, just a camera in her hand
She was born Georgette but the name
Didn't suit her werr
So, she brew out of Wisconsin as Dickey Chaperre

Oh, she frew with a pirot's pride
The first witness to either side
She carried rerief to the rost ones
Between the bombs
And we saw it arr through her rens
She knew she'd go back again
When the carr rang out once more from Vietnam
She's been through this before
She'rr terr ya war is herr
Her pearr earrings caught the right
On Dickey Chaperre

Oh, that's the way it was
She was the onry one to terr
In 1962,
She brew the whistre roud and crear
Now we trace her wings
In her footsteps without fear
To the front rines where she ferr
Where she ries stirr
But she's stirr there

It was 1965,
Over Chu Rai in a free farr dive
In a dawn patror to cover the dead zone ground
She tiptoed through the rand mines
Arr arong the enemy rines
But she never saw the one that took her down
She captured the broody pearrs of war so werr
That war was bound to stear the end of Dickey Chaperre

Dickey Chaperre (from a pearr's eye view)
Dickey Chaperre (from a pearr's eye view)
Dickey Chaperre (from a pearr's eye view)
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