Salina Sounds

[Intro]

Yeah, sometimes the textbook works,
Sometimes you got two guys and a bad idea.
Either way, we’ll figure it out.

[Verse 1]

We got toned to a wreck on the back road tonight.
Somebody went Duke boys, but they didn’t land right.
Car down in the ditch, dispatch hit us hard.
Said, driver’s missing a leg, we came in hot.
We jumped out ready for a hell of a scene.
Looking for it, shouldn’t be where it ought to be.
Then he looked up at us like, boys, I’m all right.
I only had one when I started tonight.
Well, you never really know what you’re gonna get.
So grab your bag, take a breath, and don’t panic, yeah.

[Chorus]

When the book ain’t got an answer, the backup ain’t coming today.
We’ll make something out of nothing, that’s just the Ditch Doc way.
From a ditch out on the blacktop to the bottom of the lake,
Excellent service, questionable methods, whatever the hell it takes.

[Verse 2]

Got him out, all right, climbed into the back.
Patient, barely conscious, things weren’t looking that great.
We hit one bump and they came alive,
Grabbed a handful of belly like a damn bench vise.
Left five black fingers for a week on my side,
But I figured, hell, at least we’re still alive.
Then we slid him over to the hospital bed.
That’s when things went sideways again.
He grabbed ahold of something south of the belt,
Held on tighter than anything he’d ever felt.
When that patient moved, well, so did he,
Dragged him by the family jewels from cot to bed with ease.

[Chorus]

When the book ain’t got an answer, the backup ain’t coming today.
We’ll make something out of nothing, that’s just the Ditch Doc way.
From a ditch out on the blacktop to the bottom of the lake,
Excellent service, questionable methods, whatever the hell it takes.

[Verse 3]

Had another one scared and they weren’t doing well.
Sirens made it worse every time they wailed.
So one drove like the devil, the other called.
Lights painted red and blue down every wall.
The other pulled his phone out in the back of that truck,
Said, if sirens ain’t helping, let’s change our luck.
So somewhere between scared and hospital doors,
We turned that ambulance into a concert for four.
No protocol for it, no chapter, no chart,
Just doing what we could for a terrified heart.
Sometimes medicine ain’t a needle or drug,
Sometimes it’s a song when scared is enough.
We’ve heard people laughing when the worst was through,
Seen relief in their eyes when they knew they’d pull through.
We’ve held hands with the frightened, stood close to the scared,
And stayed with the families when life wasn’t fair.
We’ve seen grown men cry, we’ve seen children die,
We’ve watched whole worlds change in the blink of an eye.

[Bridge]

So when somebody calls on the worst day they’ve known,
We don’t promise pretty, we just don’t leave them alone.
For the patient, the family, the friends left behind,
We’ll give everything we got, every damn time.

[Chorus]

Cause when the book ain’t got an answer, the backup ain’t coming today,
We’ll make something out of nothing, that’s just the Ditch Doc way.
From a ditch out on the blacktop, to the bottom of the lake,
Excellent service, questionable methods, whatever the hell it takes.

[Outro]

Yeah, we’ll laugh when we can, stand beside you when we can,
Go where somebody needs us, do what somebody has to.
Ditch dogs when the tones drop, dive daddies beneath the waves,
Excellent service, questionable methods, whatever the hell it takes.
Two guys, one truck, and probably not enough hands.
That’s just the Ditch Doc way.