Bear Tracks chords by The Petersens

Key: D

🎸 Verse 1:
N.C.
High on a mountain what do you see?
D                        G               D
Bear tracks, bear tracks lookin' back at me
D
Better get your rifles, boys, before it's too late
    D                                 G              D
The bear's got a little pig, and he's headed for the gate


🎸 Chorus:
          A                              G                D
Well he's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump
        A                            G             D
Running ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump
         D
He ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treed
D                         G        D
Some folks say he looks a lot like me

🎸 Instrumental:
D
D    G D
D
D    G D
A    G D
A    G D
D
D    G D


🎸 Verse 2:
  D
I saved up my money and I bought me some bees
     D                        G         D
They started making honey way up in the trees
  D
I cut down the tree but my honey's all gone
D                  G               D
Ol' Slew Foot done made himself at home


🎸 Chorus:
     A                              G                D
He's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump
        A                            G             D
Running ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump
         D
He ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treed
D                         G        D
Some folks say he looks a lot like me


🎸 Instrumental:
D
D    G D
D
D    G D
A    G D
A    G D
D
D    G D


🎸 Verse 3:
D
Winter's coming on and it's twenty below
        D                     G            D
And the river's froze over so where can he go?
      D
We'll chase him up the gully, then we'll run him in the well
      D                               G             D
We'll shoot him in the bottom just to listen to him yell


🎸 Chorus:
          A                              G                D
Well he's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump
        A                            G             D
Running ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump
         D
He ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treed
D                         G        D
Some folks say he looks a lot like me


🎸 Chorus:
        A                              G                D
Oh he's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump
        A                            G             D
Running ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump
         D
He ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treed
D                         G        D
Some folks say he looks a lot like me


🎸 Outro:
D                         G        D
Some folks say he looks a lot like me