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 never do it I promised my brother that 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 let me tell you one thing Though it wasn't no ordinary It stood up on mountainside a hugh golden opal
God's yeller shinin' on the cool clear evenin' little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens Like I to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man But got the best of me And I a slash That whiskey runnin' down my throat Like dew vine water
And I took another Took another'n an an another'n For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that And commenced to gettin' hot Goose pimples was runnin' up and my body And a feelin' came me Like somethin' I'd never before It was like, I was in love In love for the first time, with anything moved Animate, inanimate it matter It's like a great neon sign flashin' on an' off In my brain "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'" I was drunk I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', 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' 'bout nineteen feet tall He rambled up the hill Expectin' me to do one of two Flip or fly, I do either one It him up
He started sniffin' around my tryin' to smell fear But he ain't gonna smell no fear I'm God's own and a fearless man It him up He right in my eyes, and my eyes Was a lot redder his was It him up
So I him, I said "Mr. Bear, I love Every hair on your twenty-seven acre I know you got a lot of friends there On the side of the hill There's ole' bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear Really bear, smelly the bear, smokey the Pokey the I want you to go over there tonight And tell I'm feelin' right You tell them I love and everyone of them a brother and a sister
But if give me any trouble tonight I'm gonna run every God one of them off the hill" He took two steps backwards and didn't what to think Neither did I but bein' and cautious Well hell I 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 you to be my buddy, Buddy bear" So I took buddy bear by his island size paw And I led him over to the He's a around that thing cause He's somethin' good I gave him one of them jugs of dew vine water He it up right Looked one of them damn bears in the circus
Sippin' in the moonlight I gave him another'n an another'n an For I it he downed eight of them And commenced to the bear dance Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a It was so simple like the bug It plum me
We worked ourselves into a tumultuous And I was tired and went over to the hillside And I laid down and to sleep for four hours and dreampt me some tremulous dreams When I woke up, was God's yeller moon Shinin' on the clear evenin'
God's little lanterns on and off In the My buddy the was a missin' to know something else friends and neighbors So was still