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MIKE FINK (Bob Dyer) Well, my daddy was a bear in the Allegheny Mountains And my mother was a 'gator in the Ohio I was born full-growed at the forks of the river And I cut my teeth on a catfish bone Oh, my name is Mike Fink, I'm a keelboat poler I'm a Salt River roarer and I eat live coals I'm a half-alligator and I ride tornaders And I can out-feather, out-jump, out-hop, out-skip Throw down and lick any man on the river Well I poled the Ohio and I poler the Mississippi And I poled the Missouri when she's choked with snags I poled on the wilds and the salts of the Kentucky And I never met a man that I couldn't out-brag Well, Betsy is my shooting iron, she shoots like thunder And she flashes like the lightening and she kicks like a mule I can clip an Indian scalp, knock it cleaner than a whistle I can knock a tin can off the head of a fool Well, Carpenter's a name that I guess you heard tell of I taught that critter everything that he knowed But he done me dirt on the Yellowstone River And I crossed his eyes with a musket ball Well, some say I died on the Yellowstone River Or was shot by a man by the name of Talbot But if you want to know the truth about what really happened You're gonna have to come knocking on the Devil's door @legend @river @outlaw recorded by Barton and Para filename[ MIKEFINK SOF |
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