High on a mountain tell me what you see
Bear tracks bear tracks looking back at me
Better get your rifle boys before it’s too late
The bear’s got a little pig and headed through the gate

He’s big around the middle and broad across the rump
Running ninety miles an hour taking thirty feet a jump
Ain’t never been caught he ain’t never been treed
And some folks say he looks a lot like me

I saved up my money and I bought me some bees
And they started making honey way up in the trees
I cut down the trees but my honey’s all gone
Old slew foot done and made himself at home

Winter’s coming on and it’s twenty below
The river’s froze over so where can he go
we’ll chase him up the gully then we’ll run him in the well
And we’ll shoot him in the bottom just to listen to him yell

[1] High on a mountain tell me what you see
Bear tracks bear tracks [4] looking back at [1] me
Better get your rifle boys before it’s too late
The bear’s got a little pig and [4] headed through the [1] gate

He’s [5] big around the middle and [1] broad across the rump
Running [5] ninety miles an hour taking [1] thirty feet a jump
Ain’t never been caught he ain’t never been treed
And some folks say he looks a [4] lot like [1] me

I saved up my money and I bought me some bees
And they started making honey way up in the trees
I cut down the trees but my honey’s all gone
Old slew foot done and made himself at home

Winter’s coming on and it’s twenty below
The river’s froze over so where can he go
we’ll chase him up the gully then we’ll run him in the well
And we’ll shoot him in the bottom just to listen to him yell