6.

Horse Creek

Jay Wise

© Blue Canyon Music, BMI

My daddy was a mountain man trappin' was his life
For the beaver pelt and the bearskin he made his livin' by the night
Winters made his killin' and summers sweat him dry
His mountain days are over Lord I'll meet him bye and bye

(Go down to Horse Creek in the springtime of the year uh huh
All the trappers like to hold their yearly rendezvous down there)
Sublette's gone to Santa Fe Fitzpatrick's gone for good
Jim Bridger's got his new squaw wife out lookin' for firewood

Soon the fire was a dyin' mountain men were few
East was a comin' to the west and the old was a comin' new
Red man's passed into the smoke the camp fire's growin' cold
And this was just a story friend a mountain man once told

Go down to Horse Creek in the springtime of the year...
Go down to Horse Creek in the springtime of the year...

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