Well, like to explain to you all I no drinkin' man I it once and it got me highly irregular And I swore I'd do it again I promised my in-law that I'd go up watch his still While he in to town to vote It was up on the mountain the map said it would be Friends let me tell you one Though it no ordinary still It stood up on mountainside Like a hugh opal
God's yeller shinin' on the cool clear evenin' God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the Like I explain'd to you once I ain't no drinkin' man But got the best of me And I took a That yella whiskey runnin' down my Like dew vine water
And I took slash another'n an another'n an another'n For you knew I'd downed one jug of that shit And commenced to gettin' hot Goose pimples was up and down my body And a came over me Like I'd never experienced before It was like, I was in love In for the first time, with anything that moved Animate, inanimate it matter It's like there's a great neon sign 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 God's own drunk and a man And that's when I saw the bear He was a Kodiak 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 fear I'm own drunk and a fearless man It him up He right in my eyes, and my eyes Was a lot than 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 friends over On the side of the hill There's ole' rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, bear bear, smelly the bear, smokey the bear Pokey the I want you to go back over there And them I'm feelin' right You tell them I love each and everyone of a brother and a sister
But if they give me any trouble 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 bein' and cautious Well I approached him again I "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord We're both beasts when it right down to it
So I want you to be my buddy, bear" So I ole' buddy bear by his island size paw And I led him to the still He's a sniffin' that thing cause smellin' somethin' good I gave him one of jugs of honey dew vine water He it up right Looked like one of them damn bears in the
sasparilly in the moonlight I gave him an another'n an another'n For I knew it he downed of them And to doin' the bear dance Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a It was so like the jitter bug It plum me
We worked ourselves into a uproar And I was awful and went over to the hillside And I laid down and to sleep Slept for four hours and dreampt me some dreams When I woke up, there was yeller moon Shinin' on the cool evenin'
God's lanterns twinklin' on and off In the My buddy the was a missin' Want to know something else friends and So was still