Paroles de Damrell's Fire

It felt like winter everywhere except for Summer Street There the flames were all anybody anywhere could see And from the top of Beacon Hill we watched the fire spill over Water Street It started quickly, the flames in a shootout on a city street Jumping roof to roof like they were running from a robbery And everywhere you turned, another building burned, now it's all debris And everybody knows where they were the night the fire came Everybody found who they were the night the fire came and swallowed me whole With our backs on Broad Street, the captain told us all we had to hold the line But the horses were laid up in bed, and the engines couldn't make the climb So the word spread down the wire, the flames were getting higher here in Damrell's Fire And everybody knows where they were the night the fire came Everybody found who they were the night the fire came and swallowed me whole