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THE PREACHER AND THE BEAR Sung by: Lowell Harness Recorded in Pangburn, AR 7/29/63 Click here to listen to the original recording Was on one Sunday morn. It was ‘gainst his religion, But he carried his gun along. He killed himself a mighty fine quail, And one big . . . hare, And on his way returning home, He met a great big grizzly bear. The bear marched out in the middle of the road, And the coon kept a-coming, you see. He got so excited That he climbed a ‘simmon tree, But about that time the limb let go, And the coon come a-tumbling down. Hit the ground a-cutting right and left; He put up a bravely fight. But about that time, the bear, he squeezed The coon just a little too tight, Well, he cast his eyes to the Lord in the skies, And these words he said to Him: “You delivered Jonah from the belly of the whale and then Three Hebrew children from a fiery furnace, So the Good Book do declare. Now, good Lord, if you don’t help me, Don’t you help that grizzly bear.” (Harness: “I don’t know. Maybe that would give somebody else a good idea or something . . .”) Also found in Brown, Vol. III, #425. |
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