{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2450839,"song":"Jim Bridger","artist":"Johnny Horton","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11501542-jim-bridger-chords-by-johnny-horton/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2450839?type=chord","rating":4.56967,"votes":20,"content":"[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOnce there was a mountain man who couldn’t write his name,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nyet he deserves a front row seat in history’s hall of fame.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nHe forgot more about the Indians than we will ever know,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nhe spoke the language of the Sioux[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthe Blackfoot and the Crow.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLet’s drink to old Jim Bridger, yes, lift your glasses high,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nas long as there’s a USA, don’t let his memory die.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]A7[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat he was making history, never once occurred to him,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]E7[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nbut I doubt if we’d a been here, if it weren’t for men like Jim.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe spoke with General Custer and said, “Listen, Yellow Hair,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nthe Sioux were a great nation, so treat them fair and square.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nSit in on their war council, don’t laugh away their pride,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]                                       [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nbut Custer didn’t listen, at Little Big Horn Custer died.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLet’s drink to old Jim Bridger, yes, lift your glasses high,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nas long as there’s a USA, don’t let his memory die.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]A7[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat he was making history, never once occurred to him,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]E7[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nbut I doubt if we’d a been here, if it weren’t for men like Jim.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere’s poems and there’s legends that tell of Carson’s fame,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nyet compared to Jim Bridger, Kit was civilized and tame.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThese words are straight from Carson’s lips,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nif you place such store by him,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                                     [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nif there’s a man who knows  this gun – forsaken land it’s Jim.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                                                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLet’s drink to old Jim Bridger, yes, lift your glasses high,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]E7[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nas long as there’s a USA, don’t let his memory die.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]A7[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat he was making history, never once occurred to him,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]E7[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nbut I doubt if we’d a been here, if it weren’t for men like Jim.[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["Am","Dm","E","A","E7","A7","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]}}}