SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More John Prine lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: John Prine Lyrics for Song: Wonderful 99 Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - John Prine You've heard about the dirty dozen and the tales of the green beret The men that sank the bismarck and the fighting c.i. a. But if you're talkin' danger then one name comes to mind Make an unwise decision call the wonderful 99 It was way back in the nineties a dollar still was worth a dime An international coincidence made newsweek and time A hundred brave men or women, give or take a few Got started on a friday night by monday they were back in school Two kings, a pope, and the president of the denver savings and loan Made and unwise decision, wished they'd stayed at home A missile launching pad didn't go as planned The wonderful 99 were called to deliver it by hand 99 brave soldiers in 99 pair of keds Lookin' for a motel 6 with 99 twin beds A place to park a missile an watch some cable news Maybe rent the top gun video and grimace like tom cruise Now there's 99 yellow ribbons around the old oak tree Most of it's top secret, the rest is history It's been a couple weeks now, how the memory fades with time Of an unwise decision and the wonderful 99 Album Lyrics: Other Songs - John Prine John Prine "Other Songs - John Prine" 1. 'til A Tear Becomes A Rose 2. (we're Not) The Jet Set 3. A Good Time 4. Aimless Love 5. Automobile 6. Baby Ruth 7. Back Street Affair 8. Beautiful World 9. Big Old Goofy World 10. Billy The Bum 11. Bruised Orange 12. Chinatown 13. Clocks & Spoons 14. Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard 15. Common Sense 16. Crooked Piece Of Time 17. Dear Abbey 18. Donald And Lydia 19. Fish & Whistle 20. Forbidden Jimmy 21. German Afternoons 22. He Was In Heaven Before He Died 23. How Lucky 24. How Much Tequila 25. I Had A Dream 26. I Know One 27. If She Were You 28. In A Town This Size 29. In Spite Of Ourselves 30. Iron Ore Betty 31. It's A Cheating Situation 32. Jackie O 33. Just Wanna Be With You 34. Kokomo 35. Let's Invite Them Over 36. Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaiian 37. Letter To The Penthouse Forum 38. Linda Goes To Mars 39. Love, Love, Love 40. Lulu Walls 41. Maureen Maureen 42. Me, Myself, & I 43. Mexican Home 44. Middleman 45. Milwaukee Here I Come 46. My Own Best Friend 47. Nine Pound Hammer 48. No Name Girl 49. Often Is A Word I Seldom Use 50. One Red Rose 51. Onomatopoeia 52. Please Don't Burry Me 53. Quiet Man 54. Rocky Mountain Time 55. Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone 56. Saigon 57. Shop Talk 58. Silent Night, All Day Long 59. Six O'clock News 60. Sleepy Eyed Boy 61. Slow Boat To China 62. So Sad 63. Somewhere Someone's Falling In Love 64. Space Monkey 65. Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness 66. Sweet Revenge 67. Take The Star Out Of The Window 68. That Close To You 69. That's The Way That The World Goes Round 70. The Accident 71. The Hobo Song 72. The Torch Singer 73. The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over 74. There She Goes 75. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me 76. Third Of July 77. This Cold War With You 78. Ubangi Stomp 79. We Are The Lonley 80. We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds 81. Wedding Bells/let's Turn Back The Years 82. Wedding Day In Funeralville 83. When Two Worlds Collide 84. Wonderful 99 85. Yes I Guess They Oughta Name A Drink After You 86. You Never Even Call Me By My Name