Hugh Glass

G C Hugh Glass, , Hugh Glass, . A7 D He's as tall as the timber and green as the grass, G C He was green in the spring, but he sure learnt by fall, D C G Hugh Glass was the best mountain man of them all. C He taught ole Jim Bridger most all that he knew, D C How to skin out a buffler and track down a Sioux, G C How to build him a shelter when it's fourty below, D C G Find food for his horse under ten foot of snow. C Hugh Glass, , Hugh Glass, . A7 D Was as tall as a tree and as green as the grass, G C He had no book learning, no money nor girl, D C G But Hugh Glass was the best mountain man in the World. C One day on Snake River Hugh got in a spat, D C G One of the Chiefs wanted Hugh's beaver hat, C Hugh started to stammer and stutter and stall, D C G The Chief said I'll take beaver hat hair and all. C Hugh got shot in a fight and he laid down to die, D C G With his arms cross his chest and his toes toward the sky, D Jim took his blankets his boots and his gun, D C G He said " this child don't recken Hugh you'll need 'em none". C Hugh Glass, , Hugh Glass, . A7 D He knew every valley and each mountain pass, G C He lived through the Winter, found water and game, D C G And he knew every Bald Eagle by his first name. D C Next Spring at Rendezvous Bridger knew fear, D C G Hugh Glass shot the tip off of Jim Bridger's ear. C "Why he could have killed you Jim" somebody said, D C G "If he'd meant to k**l me Hoss I'd sure be dead". C You took all my clothes, left me nothing to eat, D C G And I recken I'll always have frost bitten feet, C You took my warm blankets, but that aint my gripe, D C G Jim did you have to take my to-bacco and pipe. C Hugh Glass, , Hugh Glass, . A D When it comes to mountaining he was first class, G C Bridger and Carson are two of the best, D C G But Hugh Glass was the best mountain man in the West. C Hugh Glass, , Hugh Glass, . When...........