Craig Morgan
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like I didn't have a choice.
He's like, you're going to do it.
So every evening when we would get finished with airborne school, I would go to my room and pick up my guitar.
And I saw, I literally asked everybody, what's the test platoon.
We did our research and I found out that red King was a man who was the first enlisted man ever to jump out of an airplane.
And he talks, he talked about it in his story.
He landed on his ass and he, that was the big thing.
I jumped out of the plane and I landed right on my ass.
And so there was all these great stories.
So I sat in the barracks one night and I just started playing this.
And so I wrote this song.
Hey, Red, let me see where you're at.
Hey, Red, because he was going to be at the banquet.
Let me see where you're at.
They said you were the first enlisted man to jump.
Tell me, did you really land on your arm, Mr. Red?
So I played that for the instructors and they went, the colonel needs to hear this.