Well, to explain 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 promised my brother in-law I'd go up watch his still While he in to town to vote It was up on the mountain Where the map said it be let me tell you one thing Though it no ordinary still It up on that mountainside Like a hugh opal
yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear 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 That yella whiskey runnin' my throat Like honey dew vine
And I another slash Took another'n an another'n an For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of shit And commenced to hot flashes Goose was runnin' up and down my body And a feelin' came me Like 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 a great neon sign flashin' on an' off In my sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'" I was drunk I knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin' Commode huggin'
I was own drunk and a fearless man And that's I first saw the bear He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout nineteen tall He rambled up over the me to do one of two things Flip or fly, I do either one It him up
He started 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 than his was It him up
So I him, I said "Mr. Bear, I love Every on your twenty-seven acre body I you got a lot of friends over there 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 want you to go over there tonight And tell them I'm feelin' You them I love each and everyone of them a brother and a sister
But if they give me any trouble I'm gonna run every God damn one of off the hill" He took two steps 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 both beasts when 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 a sniffin' around that thing cause He's somethin' good I gave him one of them jugs of dew vine water He downed it up Looked like one of them damn bears in the
Sippin' in the moonlight I gave him an another'n an another'n For I knew it he downed of them And commenced to the bear 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 uproar And I was tired and went over to the hillside And I laid and went to sleep Slept for four hours and dreampt me some dreams When I woke up, there was God's yeller Shinin' on the cool evenin'
God's little twinklin' on and off In the My buddy the bear was a Want to something else friends and neighbors So was still