Big Jim

Of his adventures Big Jim has many stories for to share The man who risked his life for a bet for a dare He jumped into a flooded river that was flowing at great speed Where the wary fear to venture the bravest succeed Without confiding in his young children and Jo his devoted wife For a five hundred dollar bet he risked his life From a challenge he is one not to back away The man has to be crazy some of him does say Watched by the two who waged the bet with him a mile from the town He jumped into the bank high flooded river but he did not drown From where he jumped in he got washed out in a field two hundred meters down He risked his life for a bet not for any sort of renown Just one of the amazing stories that is told of Big Jim The man has to be crazy many does say of him For a bet he risked his life in what might have been a watery grave It has to be true that fortune favors the brave.