The Jim Bridger Story

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 Black Foot and the Crow
 Let's drink to ol' Jim Bridger, yes lift your glasses high
 As long as there's a USA don't let his memory die
 That he was making history never once occured to him
 But I doubt if we'd've been here if it weren't for men like Jim
 
 He spoke with General Custer and said listen Yellow Hair
 The Sioux are 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
 Let's drink to ol' Jim Bridger, yes lift your glasses high
 As long as there's a USA don't let his memory die
 That he was making history never once occured to him
 But I doubt if we'd've been here if it weren't for men like Jim
 
 There're 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 knows this God-forsaken land it's Jim."
 Let's drink to ol' Jim Bridger, yes lift your glasses high
 As long as there's a USA don't let his memory die
 That he was making history never once occured to him
 But I doubt if we'd've been here if it weren't for men like Jim