D.B. Cooper

D.B Cooper was 43 when we first heard his name

47 miles away from where he fell down to his fame

But he told me that the hardest part wasn't really jumping out of the plane

It was spending the night watching those lights

Shine through the pouring rain

They had a man hunt that next morning like nothing I had ever seen

I was only 8 years old at the time watching on a TV screen

They were saying he was never gonna make it now, now that daylight had set in

But later that night they were shining those lights

Down on the mountain again

Not far away from the City of Roses

They all watched those lights up through the rain

For D.B. Cooper

The cops blocked off all the exit roads and turned loose all of the 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 brin him down

But a parachute and a few hundred dollars

Was all that they ever found

Not far away from the City of Roses

They all watched those lights up through the rain

Now some people say that he died up there somewhere in the rain and the wind

Other people say that he got away but his girlfriend did him in

The law men say if he is out there someday they're gonna bring him in

As for me, I hope they never see

D.B. Cooper again

Not far away from the City of Roses

A light shined from a house out in the rain

It was D.B. Cooper

Drinking champagne