Tige, you were faithful, to the end Tige, how I miss you, you were my best
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 dream of bears and to my toes old Tige come up to my bed and nudge me with his nose Then my fears would melt away and Tige go lie down I'd drift on back to sleep another sound
The big bus stopped and I got off it was awful dark and thick fog Then something nuzzled me and there stood Tige, my dog I if my faithful dog had met the bus each day And all the dreary winter since I'd been away
Have Tige meet me here like this I was I was glad 'Cause I hadn't Tige so much since the day they've buried dad Too long miles still lay ahead, but I didn't know A giant Dam was built where the old road used to go
I think the Lord was sending and I followed where he led Knowing well without his help that I'd be good as Tige inched along this way and that rough and slow And I could hear the water a 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 thankful mom, you had old Tige these lonely years I owe my to him, tonight I couldn't help my tears
You say you me 'bout the Dam well God was sure with us I didn't get your Mom but old Tige met the bus I hate to you son she said but now you've got to know When you left it broke his heart, Tige died three ago
You were my friend