Key: A major•
Verse 1
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D
Wild blackberries bloomin' in
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F#m
lappin' water like a dog
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D
tracks seven intches wide
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bringin' in the hide
Verse 2
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D
down the mountain side
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tryin' to nap a mill at the mill
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D
She sits down on a bearskin
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D
and she says you'll be my man
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E
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I'll have me the best bearhunter in the hills
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D
and they say he killed
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E
Ninety- nine bears before he
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E
went to rest went to rest
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D
Once he left two bearcubs orphaned
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D
but he brought 'em right on home
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E
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And Sally nursed the two bearcubs upon her breast
Interlude 1
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D
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F#m
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D
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D
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Verse 3
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he lay upon his bed
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E
And the bears he killed now numbered
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ninety- nine ninety- nine
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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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cross eastern hills of Tennessee
F#m
And when the lightnin' flashes there's the
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strange thing that the people say they see
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D
An old grey headed ghost runnin'
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D
through the mountains there
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his one hundreth bear
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F#m
lappin' water like a dog
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D
tracks seven intches wide
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E
And by sundown he'll be bringin' in the hide
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TunerE A D G B E
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