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 do it again I my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still While he in to town to vote It was up on the mountain Where the map it would be Friends let me you one thing it wasn't no ordinary still It stood up on that Like a hugh golden
God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool evenin' God's little twinklin' 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 a slash That yella whiskey runnin' my throat Like honey dew vine
And I took another Took another'n an another'n an For you I'd downed one whole jug of that shit And to gettin' hot flashes Goose pimples was runnin' up and my body And a feelin' came me somethin' I'd never experienced before It was like, like I was in In love for the first time, anything that moved Animate, it didn't matter It's like there's a great neon flashin' on an' off In my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a day a comin'" I was drunk I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Commode drunk
I was God's own and a fearless man And that's when I saw the bear He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout feet tall He rambled up over the me to do one of two things Flip or fly, I didn't do one It him up
He started sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell But he ain't gonna no fear 'cause I'm God's own drunk and a man It him up He looked in my eyes, and my eyes Was a lot than his was It him up
So I approached him, I said "Mr. Bear, I Every hair on your twenty-seven acre I you got a lot of friends over there On the other side of the There's ole' rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly Really bear, smelly the bear, the bear the bear I want you to go back over tonight And tell I'm feelin' right You tell I love each and everyone of them Like a and a sister
But if they give me any tonight I'm gonna run every God damn one of off the hill" He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to Neither did I but bein' and cautious Well hell I approached him I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the We're both beasts it comes right down to it
So I you to be my buddy, Buddy bear" So I took ole' buddy bear by his island paw And I led him to the still He's a sniffin' that thing cause He's smellin' somethin' I him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water He it up right Looked like one of them damn bears in the
Sippin' in the moonlight I him another'n an another'n an another'n For I it he downed eight of them And commenced to doin' the dance Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a It was so simple like the bug It evaded me
We worked ourselves a tumultuous uproar And I was awful tired and over to the hillside And I laid down and went to Slept for four and dreampt me some tremulous dreams When I woke up, there was God's yeller Shinin' on the clear cool
God's lanterns twinklin' on and off In the My buddy the bear was a Want to know something friends and neighbors So was still