Tige, you were faithful, to the end Tige, how I miss you, you were my best
Three years of army service done and I was headin' home at I got to thinking 'bout my dog and things long gone How old pulled me from a creek when 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 up to my bed and nudge 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 nights since I'd been away
Tige meet me here like this I was I was really glad 'Cause I needed Tige so much since the day they've buried dad Too long miles still lay ahead, but what I didn't A giant Dam was being built where the old used to go
I think the was sending Tige and I followed where he led Knowing well without his help that I'd be good as inched along this way and that going rough and slow And I could hear the a lappin' at the ledges far below
Then the mist, I saw a light and mother in her chair And I reached down to pet old Tige, but he wasn't 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 the Dam well God was sure with us I didn't get letter Mom but old Tige met the bus I hate to tell you son she said but now got to know When you it broke his heart, Tige died three years ago
You were my friend