Chords with lyrics
♫ Intro:
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♫ Verse :
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Well, like I explain to you all before, I ain't no drinkin' man
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I tried it once and it got me highly irregular
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And I swore I'd never do it again
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But I promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still
While he went in to town to vote
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It was right up on the mountain where the map said it would be
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Friends let me tell you one thing, though
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It wasn't no ordinary still
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It stood up on that mountainside like… a huge golden opal
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God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear evenin'
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God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens
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Like I explain'd to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man
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But temptation got the best of me… and I took a slash
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That yella whiskey runnin' down my throat
Like honey dew vine water and I took another slash
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Took another'n an another'n an another'n
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For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that shit
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And commenced to gettin' hot flashes
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Goose pimples was runnin' up and down my body
And a feelin' came over me
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Like somethin' I'd never experienced before
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It was like, like I was in love
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In love for the first time, with anything that moved
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Animate, inanimate it didn't matter
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It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off
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In my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'"
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'Cause I was drunk
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I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin'
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Commode huggin' drunk
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I was God's own drunk… and a fearless man
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And that's when I first saw the bear
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He was a Kodiak lookin' fella 'bout nineteen feet tall
He rambled up over the hill expectin' me to do one of two things
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Flip or fly, I didn't do either one, it hung him up
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He started sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell fear
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But he ain't gonna smell no fear 'cause
I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man. It hung him up
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He looked right in my eyes, and my eyes
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Was a lot redder than his was. It hung him up
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So I approached him, I said "Uh, Mr. Bear, I love
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Every hair on your twenty-seven acre body
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I know you got a lot of friends over there
On the other side of the hill
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There's ole' Rare bear, Tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear
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Really bear, Smelly the bear, Smokey the bear, Pokey the bear
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I want you to go back over there tonight
And tell them I'm feelin' right
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You tell them I love each and every one of them
Like a brother and a sister
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But if they give me any trouble tonight
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I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill
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He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think
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Neither did I but bein' charitable and cautious
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Well, hell, I approached him again
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I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord
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We're both beasts when it comes right down to it
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So I want you to be my buddy, “Buddy Bear”
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So I took ole' buddy bear by his island size paw
And I led him over to the still
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He's a sniffin' around that thing cause he’s smellin something good
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I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water
He downed it up right
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Looked like one of them damn bears in the circus
Sippin' sasparilly in the moonlight
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I gave him another'n an another'n an another'n
For I knew it he downed eight of them
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And commenced to doin' the bear dance
Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt
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It was so simple like the jitter bug, it plum evaded me
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We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar, and I was
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Awful tired and went over to the hillside
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And I laid down and went to sleep
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Slept for four hours and dreamt me some tremulous dreams
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Now when I woke up
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Oh, there was God's yeller moon shinin' on the clear cool evenin'
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God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens
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My buddy the bear was a-missin'
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Yeah. Want to know something else friends and neighbors?
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So was that still
That’s a take!