Well, to explain to you all before I no drinkin' man I tried it and it got me highly irregular And I swore I'd do it again I promised my brother that I'd go up watch his still While he went in to town to It was right up on the Where the map said it be let me tell you one thing Though it no ordinary still It stood up on that Like a golden opal
God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool 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 a slash That yella whiskey runnin' down my honey dew vine water
And I took another another'n an another'n an another'n For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that And commenced to hot flashes Goose pimples was runnin' up and down my And a feelin' over me somethin' I'd never experienced before It was like, I was in love In love for the first time, anything that moved Animate, inanimate it didn't like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off In my brain sayin' "Jimmy there's a great day a comin'" 'Cause I was I knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin' Commode drunk
I was God's own drunk and a man And when I first saw the bear He was a Kodiak fella 'bout nineteen feet 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 body tryin' to smell But he ain't gonna smell no 'cause I'm God's own and a fearless 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 hair on your twenty-seven acre body I know you got a lot of over there On the side of the hill There's ole' bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear Really bear, smelly the bear, smokey the Pokey the I want you to go back there tonight And tell them I'm right You tell 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 steps backwards and know what to think Neither did I but charitable and cautious Well I approached him again I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the of the Lord both beasts when it comes right down to it
So I you to be my buddy, Buddy bear" So I ole' buddy bear by his island size paw And I led him over to the He's a sniffin' around thing cause smellin' somethin' good I gave him one of them of honey dew vine water He it up right Looked like one of them bears in the circus
Sippin' in the moonlight I gave him an another'n an another'n For I knew it he downed of them And commenced to doin' the dance Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a It was so simple the jitter bug It evaded me
We ourselves into a tumultuous uproar And I was awful tired and went over to the And I laid down and went to Slept for four and dreampt me some tremulous dreams When I up, there was God's yeller moon Shinin' on the cool evenin'
God's little twinklin' on and off In the My buddy the bear was a Want to know something else and neighbors So was still