Well, like to explain to you all I ain't no man I tried it and it got me highly irregular And I swore I'd do it again I promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his While he went in to town to It was up on the mountain Where the map said it be Friends let me you one thing Though it no ordinary still It up on that mountainside a hugh golden opal
God's yeller shinin' on the cool clear evenin' God's little lanterns on and off in the heavens I explain'd to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man But temptation got the of me And I took a yella whiskey runnin' down my throat Like honey dew vine
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 hot flashes pimples was runnin' up and down my body And a feelin' came me somethin' I'd never experienced before It was like, I was in love In love for the 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'" I was drunk I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Youngin' Commode huggin'
I was God's own and a fearless man And that's when I first saw the He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout nineteen tall He rambled up over the 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 'cause I'm God's own and a fearless 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 side of the There's ole' rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly Really bear, the bear, smokey the bear Pokey the I want you to go over there tonight And tell them I'm feelin' You tell them I each and everyone of them a brother and a sister
But if they give me any trouble I'm run every God damn 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 it comes right down to it
So I want you to be my buddy, bear" So I took ole' buddy bear by his size paw And I led him over to the He's a sniffin' around that cause He's somethin' good I him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water He it up right Looked like one of them bears in the circus
sasparilly 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 like the bug It plum me
We worked ourselves into a uproar And I was awful tired and went over to the And I laid down and to sleep Slept for four hours and dreampt me some tremulous I woke up, there was God's yeller moon Shinin' on the cool evenin'
God's little twinklin' on and off In the My buddy the was a missin' to know something else friends and neighbors So was that