Tige, you were faithful, to the end Tige, how I you, you were my best friend
years of army service done and I was headin' home at last I got to thinking my dog and things long gone past How old Tige pulled me from a creek when I had no pulse or How he saved me from the changin' bull that gored my dad to
As a kid I'd of bears and tremble to my toes Till old Tige come up to my bed and me with his nose Then my fears would melt and Tige would go lie down I'd drift on back to sleep without another
The big bus stopped and I got off it was awful dark and thick fog Then something gently me and there stood Tige, my dog I wondered if my dog had met the bus each day And all the dreary winter nights since I'd been
Have Tige me here like this I was I was really glad I hadn't needed Tige so much since the day they've buried dad Too long miles lay ahead, but what I didn't know A Dam was being built where the old road used to go
I think the was sending Tige and I followed where he led Knowing well his help that I'd be good as dead inched along this way and that going rough and slow And I could hear the water a lappin' at the ledges far
Then through the mist, I saw a light and mother in her And I reached down to pet old Tige, but he there I'm mom, you had old Tige these three lonely years I owe my life to him, tonight I help my tears
You say you wrote me 'bout the Dam well God was sure us I didn't get letter Mom but old Tige met the bus I hate to tell you son she but now you've got to know When you left it broke his heart, Tige died three ago
You were my best