Tiger Whitehead chords by Johnny Cash
Verse 1
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Wild blackberries bloomin' in
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the thickest on the mountain
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Sheep shire and water cress are
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growin' round the fountain
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Where a big black bear is drinkin'
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lappin' water like a dog
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Tiger Whitehead's in the bed
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sleepin' like a log
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Tomorrow he'll see bear
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tracks seven intches wide
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And by sundown he'll be
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bringin' in the hide
Verse 2
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Pretty Sally Garland comin'
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down the mountain side
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Where Tiger Whitehead's
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tryin' to nap a mill at the mill
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She sits down on a bearskin
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and she says you'll be my man
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I'll have me the best bearhunter in the hills
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A wild child was Tiger Whitehead and
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they say he killed
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Ninety-nine bears bears before
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he went to rest went to rest
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Once he left two bearcubs orphaned
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but he brought 'em right on home
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And Sally nursed the two bearcubs upon her breast
Interlude 1
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Em
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Verse 3
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Tiger now is eighty-five and
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and he lay upon his bed
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And the bears he killed now numbered
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ninety-nine ninety-nine
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Some Some Some fellers trapped the bears
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but Tiger said just let him go
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If he ain't running wild he won't be mine
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But at night when the wind howls
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cross eastern hills of Tennessee
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And when the lightnin' flashes there's the
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strange thing that the people say they see
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An old grey headed ghost runnin'
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through the mountains there
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It's Tiger Whitehead after
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his one hundreth bear
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Wild blackberries bloomin' in
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the thickest on the mountain
C
Sheep shire and water cress are
G
growin' round the fountain
C
Where a big black bear is drinkin'
G
Em
lappin' water like a dog
A
Tiger Whitehead's in the bed
D
sleepin' like a log
C
Tomorrow he'll see bear
G
C
tracks seven intches wide
G
D
And by sundown he'll be bringin' in the hide
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Tiger Whitehead
Johnny Cash
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