Ole Slew Foot chords by June Carter Cash

Key: C

🎸 Intro:

| C      | C      | F      | C      | C      |



🎸 Verse 1:
C
High on the mountain what do I see
        C                        F               C
There's bear tracks, bear tracks lookin' back at me
    C
You better get your rifle boys before it's too late
     C                           F              C
That bear's got a little pig and headed for the gate

🎸 Chorus:
     G                                 C
He's bigger around the middle and he's broad across the rump
        G                           C
Runnin' ninety miles an hour takin' forty feet jumps
      C
Ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treat
    C                         F        C
And some folks say he looks a lot like me


🎸 Instrumental:
| G      | G      | C      | C      | G      | G      | C      | C      |
| C      | C      | C      | C      | C      | C      | F      | C      | C      |


🎸 Verse 2:
       C
Well I got me some money and I got me some bees
    C                         F             C
And they started makin' honey way up in the trees
  C
I chopped down the trees cause my honey's all gone
C                    F               C
Old Slew foot's done made himself at home


🎸 Chorus:
     G                                 C
He's bigger around the middle and he's broad across the rump
        G                           C
Runnin' ninety miles an hour takin' forty feet jumps
      C
Ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treat
C                         F        C
Some folks say he looks a lot like daddy


🎸 Instrumental:
| G      | G      | C      | C      | G      | G      | C      | C      |
| C      | C      | C      | C      | C      | C      | F      | C      | C      |


🎸 Verse 3:
C
Winter's comin' on and it's forty below
    C                      F            C
The river's frozen over so where can he go
    C
I'd get me a rifle boys and run him in the well
       C                       F                C
Then I shoot him in the bottom just to hear him yell


🎸 Chorus:
     G                                 C
He's bigger around the middle and he's broad across the rump
        G                           C
Runnin' ninety miles an hour takin' forty feet jumps
      C
Ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treat
    C                         F
And some folks say he looks a lot like my Johnny


🎸 Outro:
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