Lyr Add: Jim Bridger (from Johnny Horton)

Subject: Lyr Add: JIM BRIDGER (from Johnny Horton)
From: Gene
Date: 24 Dec 98 - 05:19 PM


JIM BRIDGER
As recorded by Johnny Horton
Writer: L. Payne

Once there was a mountain man who couldn't write his name
Yet he deserves a front row seat in history's Hall of Fame
He forgot more about the Indians than we will ever know
He spoke the language of the Sioux, the Blackfoot and the Crow.

CHORUS
Let's drink to old Jim Bridger, yes, lift your glasses high
As long as there's USA don't let his memory die
That he was makin' history never once occured to him
But I doubt if we'd a been here, if it weren't for men like Jim.

He spoke with General Custer and said "Listen! Yellow Hair."
"The Sioux [aire*] a great nation, so treat 'em fair and square."
"Sit in on their War Council, don't laugh away their pride."
But Custer didn't listen, at Little Big Horn, Custer died.

CHORUS

There are poems and there's legends that tell of Carson's fame
Yet, compared to Jim Bridger, Kit was civilized and tame
These words are straight from Carson's lips
If you place such store by him
If there's a man who know this God-forsaken land, it's Jim.

CHORUS

SOURCE: Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits
Columbia Records/CS-8396

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