(Jim Jim) Jim I did everything I could do but your fever just wouldn't die down   So I tied your horse to the wagon and last night I brought you to town   When I got you there Jim you's gone and there was nothin' nobody could do   So I bought you a suit and a tie Jim and today I wore one too   Jim I wore a tie today the first one that I ever wore   And you'd've said that I looked like a dummy out of a dry goods store   Jim they said a lot of things but I couldn't tell you one thing they said   Somehow my mind kept wanderin'    Wanderin' down back that trail back to the times that we've had   One thing bout you old friend is side by side sun or rain   How many times pannin' gold on the cuff   We did about everything in the book I guess   And prob'ly some things that they never read or thought up   Well Jim you're ridin' on ahead and I I guess that's the way that's gotta be   But Jim when you reach them streets paved with gold nobody stake a claim out for me   (Jim hmm Jim) Jim I wore a tie today