Well, like to to you all before I no drinkin' man I tried it once and it got me irregular And I swore I'd never do it I promised my in-law that I'd go up watch his still While he in to town to vote It was right up on the the map said it would be Friends let me tell you one Though it wasn't no still It stood up on that Like a hugh opal
God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear God's lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens Like I explain'd to you once I ain't no drinkin' man But temptation got the of me And I took a That yella whiskey runnin' down my honey dew vine water
And I took another 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 down my And a feelin' came me Like somethin' I'd experienced before It was like, like I was in In love for the time, with anything that moved Animate, inanimate it matter It's like a great neon sign flashin' on an' off In my brain sayin' "Jimmy there's a great day a comin'" 'Cause I was I wasn't crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin' Commode drunk
I was God's own and a fearless man And that's I first saw the bear He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout nineteen tall He up over the hill me to do one of two things Flip or fly, I didn't do one It him up
He started sniffin' around my tryin' to smell fear But he ain't gonna no fear 'cause I'm God's own and a fearless man It him up He looked in my eyes, and my eyes Was a lot redder his was It him up
So I approached him, I said "Mr. Bear, I hair on your twenty-seven acre body I know you got a lot of over there On the other side of the There's rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear Really bear, the bear, smokey the bear Pokey the I want you to go back over there And tell I'm feelin' right You tell I love each 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 and didn't know what to think Neither did I but charitable and cautious Well hell I approached him I said "Mr. Bear, You in the eyes 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' bear by his island size paw And I led him to the still He's a sniffin' that thing cause He's smellin' good I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew water He downed it up Looked like one of damn bears in the circus
Sippin' in the moonlight I gave him another'n an another'n an For I knew it he eight of them And to doin' the bear dance Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a It was so simple the jitter bug It plum 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 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 was a missin' Want to know something else friends and So was that