Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues chords by Bob Dylan
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This is called this one,
Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic,
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Massacre Blues.
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["Talkin' Blues"]
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["Talkin' I saw it advertised one day,
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the Bear Mountain Picnic
was coming my way.
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Come along and take a trip,
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transport you up there on a ship.
Bring the wife and kids,
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bring the whole family. Yippee.
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Well, I run right down
and bought me a ticket
to the Bear Mountain picnic.
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Little did I realize
I was in for a funny kind
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of picnic surprise.
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Had nothing to do with picnics.
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Didn't come close to a mountain.
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I'm scared of bears.
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Took the wife and kids down to the pier.
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Six thousand people there.
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Everybody had a ticket for the trip.
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Well, I said, it's a pretty big ship.
Besides,
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I'm more of the merrier.
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Well we all got on, what do you think,
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that big ol' boat started to sink
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More people kept a -piling on,
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that ol' ship started to go down
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Maybe this ain't no way to start a picnic
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Well I soon lost track of my kids
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and wife
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so many people I never saw in my life
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but old ship was going
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down in the wa ter
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6 ,000 people trying to kill each other
dogs are barking,
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cats are screaming,
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women are yelling,
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men are coming,
fists are flying, cats are running,
dishes overthrown,
me are running,
cops are coming,
maybe we just better call off the
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picnic
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I got knocked down, got shoved around,
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all I could hear was a moanin' sound,
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don't remember one thing more,
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got knocked out,
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woke up on the shore,
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arms were busted,
feet were busted,
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Head was cracked,
stomach was split open
Couldn't walk, talk, see,
think, feel, crawl, couldn't move
I was bald, naked,
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quite lucky to be alive though
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I'm feelin' like I climbed out of my casket
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I grabbed back hold of my picnic basket
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Took the wife an d kids
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and started whole Wishin'
I never got up that mornin'
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Now I don't care just what you do,
if you want to have a picnic,
that's up to you.
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Don't tell me you don't want to hear it,
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you see I lost all my picnic spirit,
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I in my kitchen,
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I have my own picnics in
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the bathroom.
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It don't seem to me quite so funny,
but some people are going to do it
for money.
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There's a brand new gimmick every day,
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just take somebody's money away.
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Maybe we ought to take
some of these people
and put them on a boat,
send them up to Bear Mountain for
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a picnic.
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I'll sing you a song I wrote
and maybe give you some time
to go out and have a cigarette.
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Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
Bob Dylan
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