I was hiking one morning
On a Montana mountain side
When off in the distance, thru the pines
A reflection caught my eye
It was the wreck of a W9 Kenworth
Lost there in the brush
And a broken guardrail told the story
Dangling ninety feet above
He was pinned behined the wheel
The clipboard frozen in his hand
With a picture of his family
And a letter he had written them
I couldn't help but to read it
This is what it said:
Christy I want you to know you've been the love of my life
Tell yourself and the girls I wished daddy had more time
I'm pretending I'm holding each of you in my arms
I've been freezing for days, but now I'm starting to feels so warm
I was thinking of the trip we took down
To the Gulf of Mexico
Beaches so white and how the blue waves of the ocean rolled
I'd take that sunburn again right now over thirty below
God I wished that this was white sand instead of blowing snow
I'm fading in and out, it's time to leave this world
I want you to know my last thoughts were of you my Boy and Girls
I'm getting mighty sleepy, I know the lord my soul will keep (?)
Cause there's a bright light in the
Darkness, so don't you worry about me
I tried to keep my tears from fading out the words he wrote
And I thought about his family somewhere
And how they needed to know
So I took it upon myself, to take this letter to them
So they can see how much he loved them all
To bury him(?)