The Bear

a repeat after me song

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!]

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