Leon Payne — Hugh Glass

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[Verse]
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Hugh Glass, {Hugh Glass}, Hugh Glass, {Hugh Glass}.
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He's as tall as the timber and green as the grass,
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He was green in the spring, but he sure learnt by fall,
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Hugh Glass was the best mountain man of them all.

[Verse]
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He taught ole Jim Bridger most all that he knew,
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How to skin out a buffler and track down a Sioux,
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How to build him a shelter when it's fourty below,
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Find food for his horse under ten foot of snow.

[Verse]
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Hugh Glass, {Hugh Glass}, Hugh Glass, {Hugh Glass}.
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Was as tall as a tree and as green as the grass,
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He had no book learning, no money nor girl,
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But Hugh Glass was the best mountain man in the World.

[Verse]
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One day on Snake River Hugh got in a spat,
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One of the Chiefs wanted Hugh's beaver hat,
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Hugh started to stammer and stutter and stall,
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The Chief said I'll take beaver hat hair and all.

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Hugh got shot in a fight and he laid down to die,
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With his arms cross his chest and his toes toward the sky,
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Jim took his blankets his boots and his gun,
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He said " this child don't recken Hugh you'll need 'em none".

[Verse]
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Hugh Glass, {Hugh Glass}, Hugh Glass, {Hugh Glass}.
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He knew every valley and each mountain pass,
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He lived through the Winter, found water and game,
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And he knew every Bald Eagle by his first name.

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Next Spring at Rendezvous Bridger knew fear,
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Hugh Glass shot the tip off of Jim Bridger's ear.
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"Why he could have killed you Jim" somebody said,
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"If he'd meant to kill me Hoss I'd sure be dead".

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You took all my clothes, left me nothing to eat,
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And I recken I'll always have frost bitten feet,
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You took my warm blankets, but that aint my gripe,
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Jim did you have to take my to-bacco and pipe.

[Verse]
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Hugh Glass, {Hugh Glass}, Hugh Glass, {Hugh Glass}.
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When it comes to mountaining he was first class,
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Bridger and Carson are two of the best,
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But Hugh Glass was the best mountain man in the West.

[Ending]
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Hugh Glass, {Hugh Glass}, Hugh Glass, {Hugh Glass}.

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