Well, to explain to you all before I no drinkin' man I it once 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 right up on the Where the map said it be Friends let me you one thing Though it wasn't no ordinary It stood up on mountainside Like a golden opal
God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the Like I explain'd to you once before I no drinkin' man But temptation got the of me And I took a That yella whiskey runnin' down my Like dew vine water
And I took slash Took an another'n an another'n For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of shit And commenced to gettin' hot Goose pimples was runnin' up and my body And a came over me Like somethin' I'd never experienced It was like, I was in love In for the first time, with anything that moved Animate, inanimate it matter It's there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off In my sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'" I was drunk I wasn't crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin' Commode huggin'
I was own drunk and a fearless man And that's when I saw the bear He was a Kodiak lookin' fella nineteen feet tall He rambled up over the Expectin' me to do one of two Flip or fly, I didn't do one It him up
He started around my body tryin' to smell fear But he ain't gonna smell no fear I'm God's own drunk and a man It him up He looked right in my eyes, and my Was a lot redder his was It him up
So I approached him, I "Mr. Bear, I love hair on your twenty-seven acre body I know you got a lot of over there On the other side of the There's ole' rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly Really bear, smelly the bear, the bear the bear I want you to go back over there And them I'm feelin' right You tell them I love and everyone of them Like a brother and a
But if they give me any tonight I'm gonna run every God damn one of off the hill" He took two steps backwards and didn't what to think Neither did I but bein' charitable and Well hell I approached him I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the both beasts when it comes right down to it
So I you to be my buddy, Buddy bear" So I took ole' buddy bear by his island paw And I led him over to the He's a sniffin' around thing cause smellin' somethin' good I gave him one of them of honey dew vine water He downed it up Looked like one of them damn bears in the
Sippin' in the moonlight I gave him an another'n an another'n For I knew it he downed eight of And commenced to doin' the bear Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a It was so simple like the bug It evaded me
We worked into a tumultuous uproar And I was tired and went over to the hillside And I laid down and went to Slept for four and dreampt me some tremulous dreams When I up, there was God's yeller moon Shinin' on the cool evenin'
little lanterns twinklin' on and off In the My buddy the bear was a Want to know else friends and neighbors So was that