Well, like to to you all before I ain't no man I it once and it got me highly irregular And I swore I'd never do it I promised my in-law that I'd go up watch his still While he went in to town to It was right up on the Where the map it would be Friends let me tell you one Though it wasn't no still It stood up on mountainside Like a hugh golden
God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool evenin' God's little lanterns on and off in the heavens Like I explain'd to you once before I ain't no man But temptation got the of me And I a slash yella whiskey runnin' down my throat Like honey dew water
And I took slash another'n an another'n an another'n For you I'd downed one whole jug of that shit And commenced to gettin' hot Goose pimples was runnin' up and my body And a feelin' over me Like somethin' I'd experienced before It was like, like I was in In for the first time, with anything that moved Animate, inanimate it matter It's like there's a great sign flashin' on an' off In my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett a great day a comin'" 'Cause I was I knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin' huggin' drunk
I was own drunk and a fearless man And that's when I first saw the He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout nineteen feet He rambled up the hill me to do one of two things Flip or fly, I do either one It him up
He started sniffin' around my body tryin' to fear But he ain't gonna smell no 'cause I'm God's own drunk and a man It him up He looked right in my eyes, and my 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 over there On the other of the hill There's ole' rare bear, tall bear, bear, Kelly bear Really bear, smelly the bear, the bear Pokey the I want you to go over there tonight And tell I'm feelin' right You them I love each and everyone of them a brother and a sister
But if they me any trouble tonight I'm run every God damn one of them off the hill" He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to did I but bein' charitable and cautious Well hell I approached him I "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord We're both beasts when it comes right to it
So I you to be my buddy, Buddy bear" So I ole' buddy bear by his island size paw And I led him over to the a sniffin' around that thing cause He's somethin' good I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine He it up right Looked like one of them damn bears in the
Sippin' in the moonlight I gave him another'n an an another'n 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 ourselves into a tumultuous uproar And I was awful tired and over to the hillside And I down and went to sleep Slept for four hours and dreampt me some dreams When I woke up, there was yeller moon Shinin' on the clear cool
little lanterns twinklin' on and off In the My buddy the was a missin' Want to know something else friends and So was still