[ti:Jim Bridger] [ar:Johnny Horton] [al:Like A Swan] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jim Bridger - Johnny Horton [00:02.55]Written by:Leon Payne [00:05.11]Once there was a mountain man who couldn't write his name [00:09.76]Yet he deserves the front row seat in history's hall of fame [00:14.70]He forgot more about the indians than we will ever know [00:19.76]He spoke the language of the sioux the black foot and the crow [00:27.29]Let's drink to old jim bridger yes lift your glasses high [00:32.32]As long as there's the usa don't let his memory die [00:37.43]That he was making history never once occured to him [00:42.39]But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like jim [00:51.22]He spoke with general custer and said listen yellow hair [00:56.19]The sioux are the great nation so treat 'em fair and square [01:01.24]Sit in on their war councils don't laugh away their pride [01:06.18]But custer didn't listen at little big horn custer died [01:11.13]Let's drink to old jim bridger yes lift your glasses high [01:16.09]As long as there's the usa don't let his memory die [01:21.10]That he was making history never once occured to him [01:26.12]But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like jim [01:34.80]There's poems and there's legends that tell of carson's fame [01:39.79]Yet compared to jim bridger kit was civilized and tame [01:44.79]These words are straight from carson's lips [01:47.31]If you place that story by him [01:49.65]If there's a man who knows this god forsaken land it's jim [01:56.62]Let's drink to old jim bridger yes lift your glasses high [02:01.56]As long as there's the usa don't let his memory die [02:06.52]That he was making history never once occured to him [02:11.52]But I doubt if we'd been here if it weren't for men like jim