Jim Bridger-Johnny Horton

[ti:Jim Bridger] [ar:Johnny Horton] [al:The Ballads of Johnny Horton] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.96]Jim Bridger - Johnny Horton [00:02.17]Written by：Leon Payne [00:03.00] [00:05.56]Once there was a mountain man who couldn't write his name [00:10.19]Yet he deserves the front row seat [00:12.82]In history's hall of fame [00:14.46] [00:15.15]He forgot more about the Indians [00:17.67]Than we will ever know [00:20.15]He spoke the language of the sioux [00:23.98] [00:25.38]The black foot and the crow [00:27.76]Let's drink to old jim bridger [00:29.52] [00:30.11]Yes lift you'r glasses high [00:31.98] [00:32.66]As long as there's the USA [00:35.16]Don't let his memory die [00:37.67]That he was making history never once occurred to him [00:42.01] [00:42.72]But I doubt if we'd been here [00:45.11]If it weren't for men like jim [00:47.20] [00:51.28]He spoke with general custer and said listen yellow hair [00:55.64] [00:56.25]The sioux are the great nation [00:58.64]So treat 'em fair and square [01:01.16]Sit in on their war councils [01:03.59]Don't laugh away their pride [01:06.08]But custer didn't listen at little big horn custer died [01:10.86]Let's drink to old jim bridger [01:12.88] [01:13.40]Yes lift you'r glasses high [01:15.33] [01:15.89]As long as there's the USA [01:18.43]Don't let his memory die [01:20.94]That he was making history [01:23.34]Never once occurred to him [01:25.27] [01:25.81]But I doubt if we'd been here [01:28.31]If it weren't for men like jim [01:30.22] [01:34.35]There's poems and there's legends [01:36.31] [01:36.82]That tell of carson's fame [01:38.78] [01:39.36]Yet compared to jim bridger kit was civilized and tame [01:44.28]These words are straight from carson's lips [01:46.69]If you place that story by him [01:49.26]If there's a man who knows this God [01:53.51]Forsaken land it's jim [01:55.94]Let's drink to old jim bridger [01:58.41]Yes lift you'r glasses high [02:00.32] [02:00.92]As long as there's the USA [02:03.43]Don't let his memory die [02:05.87]That he was making history [02:08.29]Never once occurred to him [02:10.19] [02:10.79]But I doubt if we'd been here [02:13.11]If it weren't for men like jim