Well, like to explain to you all I no drinkin' man I tried it once and it got me highly And I I'd never do it again I promised my brother in-law I'd go up watch his still While he went in to to vote It was up on the mountain Where the map it would be Friends let me tell you one Though it wasn't no still It up on that mountainside Like a golden opal
God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens Like I to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man But temptation got the of me And I took a That yella whiskey down my throat Like dew vine water
And I took slash Took another'n an an another'n For you I'd downed one whole jug of that shit And commenced to gettin' hot Goose was runnin' up and down my body And a feelin' over me Like I'd never experienced before It was like, like I was in In for the first time, with anything that moved Animate, inanimate it didn't like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off In my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett a great day a comin'" 'Cause I was I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Commode huggin'
I was own drunk and a fearless man And that's when I saw the bear He was a Kodiak lookin' 'bout nineteen feet tall He rambled up the hill Expectin' me to do one of two or fly, I didn't do either one It him up
He started sniffin' around my body to smell fear But he gonna smell 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 "Mr. Bear, I love Every on your twenty-seven acre body I know you got a lot of over there On the other of the hill 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 right You them I love each and everyone of them Like a brother and a
But if they give me any tonight I'm run every God damn one of them off the hill" He took two backwards and didn't know what to think Neither did I but bein' charitable and Well I approached him again I said "Mr. Bear, You in the eyes of the Lord both beasts when it comes right down to it
So I you to be my buddy, Buddy bear" So I took ole' buddy bear by his size paw And I led him to the still He's a sniffin' around thing cause He's somethin' good I him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water He downed it up Looked one of them damn bears in the circus
Sippin' sasparilly in the I gave him another'n an an another'n For I knew it he downed eight of And commenced to doin' the 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 and went over to the hillside And I laid down and went to Slept for four hours and dreampt me tremulous dreams When I woke up, was God's yeller moon on the clear cool evenin'
God's little lanterns on and off In the My buddy the bear was a Want to know something else and neighbors So was that