Jim Bridger-Johnny Horton

[ti:Jim Bridger] [ar:Johnny Horton] [al:Johnny Horton Makes History] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jim Bridger - Johnny Horton [00:05.65]Once there was a mountain man who couldn't write his name [00:10.06]Yet he deserves the front row seat in history's hall of fame [00:15.07]He forgot more about the indians than we will ever know [00:20.04]He spoke the language of the sioux the black foot and the crow [00:27.57]Let's drink to old jim bridger yes lift your glasses high [00:32.53]As long as there's the USA don't let his memory die [00:37.59]That he was making history never once occured to him [00:42.57]But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like jim [00:47.89] [00:51.18]He spoke with general custer and said listen yellow hair [00:56.17]The sioux are the great nation so treat 'em fair and square [01:01.11]Sit in on their war councils don't laugh away their pride [01:05.96]But custer didn't listen at little big horn custer died [01:10.87]Let's drink to old jim bridger yes lift your glasses high [01:15.82]As long as there's the USA don't let his memory die [01:20.86]That he was making history never once occured to him [01:25.74]But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like jim [01:30.97] [01:34.32]There's poems and there's legends that tell of carson's fame [01:39.25]Yet compared to jim bridger kit was civilized and tame [01:44.18]These words are straight from carson's lips if you place that story by him [01:49.13]If there's a man who knows this god forsaken land it's jim [01:55.83]Let's drink to old jim bridger yes lift your glasses high [02:00.85]As long as there's the USA don't let his memory die [02:05.76]That he was making history never once occured to him [02:10.19] [02:10.91]But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like jim