Well, like to explain to you all I ain't no man I tried it and it got me highly irregular And I swore I'd do it again I promised my brother in-law I'd go up watch his still While he went in to town to It was up on the mountain Where the map said it be let me tell you one thing Though it wasn't no still It stood up on mountainside Like a hugh opal
God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool evenin' God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the Like I explain'd to you once before I ain't no man But got the best of me And I a slash That yella whiskey runnin' down my Like honey dew water
And I took another Took another'n an another'n an For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that And commenced to hot flashes Goose pimples was up and down my body And a came over me somethin' I'd never experienced before It was like, I was in love In for the first time, with anything that moved Animate, inanimate it didn't It's like there's a neon sign flashin' on an' off In my brain sayin' "Jimmy there's a great day a comin'" 'Cause I was I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Youngin' Commode drunk
I was God's own drunk and a man And that's when I saw the bear He was a lookin' fella 'bout nineteen feet tall He up over the hill Expectin' me to do one of two or fly, I didn't do either one It him up
He sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell fear But he ain't gonna smell no 'cause I'm God's own drunk and a man It him up He looked in my eyes, and my eyes Was a lot than his was It him up
So I him, I said "Mr. Bear, I love Every hair on your twenty-seven body I know you got a lot of friends over On the other side of the There's ole' rare bear, bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear bear, smelly the bear, smokey the bear Pokey the I want you to go back there tonight And tell I'm feelin' right You them I love each and everyone of them Like a and a sister
But if they me any trouble tonight I'm gonna run every God damn one of off the hill" He two steps backwards and didn't know what to think did I but bein' charitable and cautious Well I approached him again I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the of the Lord We're beasts when it comes right down to it
So I want you to be my buddy, bear" So I took ole' buddy bear by his island paw And I led him to the still He's a sniffin' around that cause He's smellin' good I gave him one of them of honey dew vine water He it up right Looked one of them damn bears in the circus
Sippin' sasparilly in the I gave him another'n an another'n an For I it he downed eight of them And commenced to doin' the dance Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a It was so like the jitter bug It evaded me
We worked ourselves into a uproar And I was awful tired and went to the hillside And I laid down and to sleep Slept for four hours and me some tremulous dreams I woke up, there was God's yeller moon Shinin' on the clear evenin'
God's lanterns twinklin' on and off In the My buddy the was a missin' to know something else friends and neighbors So was that