| SONGS |
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| THE BEAR |
| 1) The other day I met a bear A great big bear A-way up there The other day I met a bear A great big bear a-way up there. [this part is sung as a group] 2) He looked at me I looked at him He sized up me I sized up him He looked at me, I looked at him He sized up me, I sized up him 3) He said to me “Why don’t you run? I see you don’t Have any gun.”… 4) And so I ran Away from there And right behind Me was that bear…. 5) Ahead of me I saw a tree A great big tree Oh, golly gee…. 6) The lowest branch Was ten feet up I had to jump And trust my luck…. 7) And so I jumped Into the air And missed that branch A-way up there…. 8) Now don’t you fret And don’t you frown I caught that branch On the way back down…. 9) That’s all there is There is no more Until I meet That bear once more 10) The end, the end The end, the end The end, the end The end, the end The end, the end, the end, the end This time it really is the end. [Amen!] |
| *a "repeat after me" song |
| alternate ending: I heard a crack, I heard a crunch, And I became, That big bear’s lunch…. The moral of, This story be, Don’t meet a bear, Without a tree |