Tige, you faithful, faithful to the end Tige, how I miss you, you were my best
Three years of army service done and I was home at last I got to thinking 'bout my dog and long gone past How old Tige pulled me from a creek I had no pulse or breath How he saved me from the changin' bull gored my dad to death
As a kid I'd dream of bears and to my toes Till old Tige come up to my bed and nudge me with his Then my fears would melt away and Tige 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 meet me here this I was I was really glad 'Cause I hadn't needed Tige so much since the day buried dad Too long still lay ahead, but what I didn't know A Dam was being built where the old road used to go
I think the Lord was sending Tige and I followed he led Knowing well without his help I'd be good as dead Tige inched this way and that going rough and slow And I could the water a lappin' at the ledges far below
through the mist, I saw a light and mother in her chair And I reached to pet old Tige, but he wasn't there I'm mom, you had old Tige these three lonely years I owe my life to him, tonight I couldn't help my
You say you me 'bout the Dam well God was sure with us I didn't get your letter Mom but old met the bus I to tell you son she said but now you've got to know When you left it his heart, Tige died three years ago
You were my best