Tiger Whitehead tab by Johnny Cash

Intro

Tiger Whitehead
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Wild blackberries bloomin' in the thickets on the mountain,
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Sheep shire and water cress are growin' round the fountain,
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Where a big black bear is drinkin' lappin' water like a dog,
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Tiger Whitehead's in the bed, sleepin' like a log.
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But tomorrow he'll see bear tracks seven inches wide,
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And by sundown he'll be bringin' in the hide.
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Pretty Sally Garland comin' down the mountain side,
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Where Tiger Whitehead's tryin' to nap a mill, at the mill,
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She sits down on a bearskin and she says, “You'll be my man,
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I'll have me the best bear hunter in these hills.”
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A augmentedA wild child was Tiger Whitehead and they say he killed
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Ninety-nine bears before he went to rest, went to rest,
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Once he left two bear cubs orphaned but he brought 'em right on home,
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And Sally nursed the two bear cubs upon her breast.

[Chorus]

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Tiger now is eighty-five and he lay upon his bed,
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And the bears he killed now numbered ninety-nine, ninety-nine.
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Some fellers trapped the bear, but Tiger said, “Just let him go,
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If he ain't running wild he won't be mine.”

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But at the night when the wind howls
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Cross the hills of eastern Tennessee,
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And when the lightnin' flashes,
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There's the strange thing that the people say they see :
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An old grey headed ghost runnin' through mountains there,
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It's Tiger Whitehead after his one hundredth bear.
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Wild blackberries bloomin' in the thickets on the mountain,
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Sheep shire and water cress are growin' round the fountain,
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Where a big black bear is drinkin', lappin' water like a dog,
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Tiger Whitehead's in the bed, sleepin' like a log.
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But tomorrow he'll see bear tracks seven inches wide,
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