Well, like to to you all before 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 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 let me tell you one thing Though it wasn't no ordinary It stood up on that a hugh golden opal
God's yeller moon shinin' on the 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 temptation got the of me And I took a That yella runnin' down my throat honey dew vine water
And I another slash 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 up and down my body And a came over me Like somethin' I'd never before It was like, like I was in In love for the first time, anything that moved Animate, it didn't matter like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off In my sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'" I was drunk I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Youngin' huggin' drunk
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 feet He rambled up over the me to do one of two things Flip or fly, I do either one It him up
He sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell fear But he gonna smell no fear 'cause I'm God's own drunk and a man It him up He right in my eyes, and my eyes Was a lot redder his was It him up
So I approached him, I "Mr. Bear, I love Every hair on 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, Kelly bear, smelly the bear, smokey the bear Pokey the I you to go back over there tonight And tell them I'm right You tell them I each and everyone of them Like a brother and a
But if give me any trouble tonight I'm gonna run every God damn one of off the hill" He took two backwards and didn't know what to think did I but bein' charitable and cautious Well I approached him again I "Mr. Bear, You know 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 buddy bear by his island size paw And I led him to the still He's a sniffin' around that thing He's 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
Sippin' sasparilly in the I gave him another'n an another'n an For I knew it he eight of them And commenced to doin' the dance Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a It was so like the jitter bug It evaded me
We worked ourselves into a tumultuous And I was awful tired and over to the hillside And I laid down and went to Slept for four hours and dreampt me some tremulous When I woke up, there was God's yeller Shinin' on the clear cool
God's little twinklin' on and off In the My buddy the was a missin' Want to know something friends and neighbors So was that