Well, like I explained to you all before I aint no drinkin man I tried it once and it got me highly irregular And I swore Id never do it again But I promised my brother inlaw that Id go up and watch his still While he went in to town to vote It was right up on the mountain Where the map said it would be Friends, let me tell you one thing Though it wasnt no ordinary still It stood up on that mountainside Like a hugh golden opal Gods yeller moon shinin on the cool clear evenin Gods little lanterns twinklin on and off in the heavens Like I explained to you once before, I aint no drinkin man But temptation got the best of me And I took a slash That yella whiskey runnin down my throat Like honey dew vine water And I took another slash Took another n another n another n For you knew Id downed one whole jug of that shit And commenced to gettin hot flashes Goose pimples was runnin up and down my body And a feelin came over me Like somethin Id never experienced before It was like, like I was in love In love for the first time, with anything that moved Animate, inanimate it didnt matter Its like theres a great neon sign flashin on n off in my brain sayin Jimmy Buffett, theres a great day a comin! Cause I was drunk I wasnt knee crawlin, slip slidin, Reggie Youngin Commode huggin drunk I was Gods own drunk and a fearless man And thats when I first saw the bear He was a Kodiak lookin fella bout nineteen feet tall He rambled up over the hill Expectin me to do one of two things Flip or fly, I didnt do either one It hung him up He started sniffin around my body tryin to smell fear But he aint gonna smell no fear Cause Im Gods own drunk and a fearless man It hung him up He looked right in my eyes, and my eyes Was a lot redder than his was It hung him up So I approached him, I said Mr. Bear I love every hair on your twentyseven acre body I know you got a lot a friends over there On the other side of the hill Theres ole Rare Bear, Tall Bear, Freddy Bear, Kelly Bear Really Bear, Smelly the Bear, Smokey the Bear, Pokey the Bear I want you to go back over there tonight And tell them Im feelin right You tell them I love each and everyone of them Like a brother and a sister. But if they give me any trouble tonight Im gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill! He took two steps backwards and didnt know what to think Neither did I but bein charitable and cautious Well hell, I approached him again I said Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord Were both beasts when it comes right down to it So I want you to be my buddy, Buddy Bear So I took ole Buddy Bear by his island size paw And I led him over to the still Hes a sniffin around that thing Cause hes smellin somethin good I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water He downed it up right Looked like one of them damn bears in the circus Sippin sarsaparilla in the moonlight I gave him another n another n another n For I knew it he downed eight of them And commenced to doin the bear dance Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt It was so simple, like the jitter bug It plum evaded me We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar And I was awful tired and went over to the hillside And I laid down and went to sleep Slept for four hours and dreampt me some tremulous dreams When I woke up, there was Gods yeller moon Shinin on the clear cool evenin Gods little lanterns twinklin on and off in the heavens My buddy the bear was amissin Want to know something else friends and neighbors? So was that still Songwriter Lord Buckley
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