Jim Bridger lyrics

Once there was a mountain man

Who couldn't write his name

Yet he deserves the 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 Black Foot and the Crow

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(Let's drink to old Jim Bridger

Yes lift your glasses high)

As long as there's the USA

Don't let his memory die

(That he was making history

Never once occured to him)

But I doubt if we'd been here

If it weren't for men like Jim

He spoke with General Custer

And said listen Yellow Hair

The Sioux are the great nation

So treat 'em fair and square

Sit in on their war councils,

Don't laugh away their pride

But Custer didn't listen

At Little Big Horn Custer died

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There's 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 that story by him

If there's a man who knows this God

Forsaken land it's Jim

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• Artist:Johnny Horton