Jim Bridg-Johnny Horton

[ti:Jim Bridg] [ar:Johnny Horton] [al:Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits: Rarity Music Pop, Vol. 302] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jim Bridg - Johnny Horton [00:05.64]Once there was a mountain man who couldn't write his name [00:09.52] [00:10.29]Yet he deserves the front row seat in history's hall of fame [00:14.53] [00:15.35]He forgot more about the indians than we will ever know [00:19.46] [00:20.30]He spoke the language of the sioux the black foot and the crow [00:27.40] [00:27.98]Let's drink to old jim bridger yes lift your glasses high [00:32.19] [00:32.88]As long as there's the U.S.A. don't let his memory die [00:37.46] [00:38.07]That he was making history never once occurred to him [00:42.18] [00:43.12]But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like jim [00:47.50] [00:51.71]He spoke with general custer and said listen yellow hair [00:55.92] [00:56.80]The sioux are the great nation so treat 'em fair and square [01:00.96] [01:01.81]Sit in on their war councils don't laugh away their pride [01:06.10] [01:06.77]But custer didn't listen at little big horn custer died [01:11.76]Let's drink to old jim bridger yes lift your glasses high [01:15.76] [01:16.61]As long as there's the U.S.A. don't let his memory die [01:20.95] [01:22.02]That he was making history never once occurred to him [01:25.85] [01:26.87]But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like jim [01:31.08] [01:35.26]There's poems and there's legends that tell of carson's fame [01:39.60] [01:40.36]Yet compared to jim bridger kit was civilized and tame [01:44.75] [01:45.41]These words are straight from carson's lips if you place that story by him [01:49.70] [01:50.40]If there's a man who knows this god forsaken land it's jim [01:56.84] [01:57.37]Let's drink to old jim bridger yes lift your glasses high [02:01.33] [02:02.28]As long as there's the U.S.A. don't let his memory die [02:06.38] [02:07.26]That he was making history never once occurred to him [02:11.27] [02:12.30]But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like jim