Mike Fink (Bob Dyer) Well, my daddy was a bear in the Allegheny Mountains And my mother was a 'gator in the Ohio I was born full-growed at the forks of the river And I cut my teeth on a catfish bone Oh, my name is Mike Fink, I'm a keelboat poler I'm a Salt River roarer and I eat live coals I'm a half-alligator and I ride tornaders And I can out-feather, out-jump, out-hop, out-skip Throw down and lick any man on the river Well I poled the Ohio and I poler the Mississippi And I poled the Missouri when she's choked with snags I poled on the wilds and the salts of the Kentucky And I never met a man that I couldn't out-brag Well, Betsy is my shooting iron, she shoots like thunder And she flashes like the lightening and she kicks like a mule I can clip an Indian scalp, knock it cleaner than a whistle I can knock a tin can off the head of a fool Well, Carpenter's a name that I guess you heard tell of I taught that critter everything that he knowed But he done me dirt on the Yellowstone River And I crossed his eyes with a musket ball Well, some say I died on the Yellowstone River Or was shot by a man by the name of Talbot But if you want to know the truth about what really happened You're gonna have to come knocking on the Devil's door recorded by Barton and Para SOF
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