God's Own Drunk
(专辑: Living And Dying In 3/4 Time - 1974)
Well, like to explain to you all before, I
ain't no drinking man I
tried it once and it got me highly irregular And I
swore I'd never do it again I
promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still While he went in to town to vote It was right up on the
mountain where the
map said it would be Friends let me tell you one thing, though it wasn't no ordinary still It stood up on that mountainside like a
hugh golden opal God's yeller moon shining on the
cool clear evening God's little lanterns twinkling on and off in the
heavens Like I
explain'd to you once before I
ain't no drinking man But temptation got the
best of me And I
took a
slash That yella whiskey running down my throat like honey dew vine water And I
took another slash, Took another'n an another'n an another'n For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that shit and commenced to getting hot flashes Goose pimples was running up and down my body And a
feeling came over me like something I'd never experienced before It was like, like I
was in love In love for the
first time, with anything that moved Animate, inanimate it didn't matter It's like there's a
great neon sign flashing on an' off in my brain saying "Jimmy Buffett there's a
great day a
comin'" `Cause I
was drunk I
wasn't knee crawling, slip sliding, Reggie Younging Commode hugging drunk I
was God's own drunk and a
fearless man And that's when I
first saw the
bear He was a
Kodiak looking fella `bout nineteen feet tall He rambled up over the
hill expecting me to do one of two things, Flip or fly, I
didn't do either one It hung him up He started sniffing around my body trying to smell fear But he ain't gonna smell no fear `cause I'm God's own drunk and a
fearless man It hung him up He looked right in my eyes, and my eyes was a
lot redder than his was It hung him up So I
approached him, I
said "Mr. Bear, I
love every hair on your twenty-seven acre body I
know you got a
lot of friends over there on the
other side of the
hill There's ole' rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear Really bear, smelly the
bear, smokey the
bear, pokey the
bear I
want you to go back over there tonight And tell them I'm feeling right You tell them I
love each and everyone of them like a
brother and a
sister But if they give me any trouble tonight I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the
hill" He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think Neither did I
but being charitable and cautious Well hell I
approached him again I
said "Mr. Bear, You know in the
eyes of the
Lord we're both beasts when it comes right down to it So I
want you to be my buddy, Buddy bear" So I
took ole' buddy bear by his island size paw and I
led him over to the
still He's a
sniffing around that thing cause he's smelling something good I
gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water He downed it up right Looked like one of them damn bears in the
circus Sipping sasparilly in the
moonlight I
gave him another'n an another'n an another'n For I
knew it he downed eight of them and commenced to doing the
bear dance Two snips, a
snort, a
fly turn, and a
grunt It was so simple like the
jitter bug It plum evaded me We worked ourselves into a
tumultuous uproar And I
was awful tired and went over to the
hillside and I
laid down and went to sleep Slept for four hours and dreampt me some tremulous dreams When I
woke up, there was God's yeller moon shining on the
clear cool evening God's little lanterns twinkling on and off in the
heavens My buddy the
bear was a
missing Want to know something else friends and neighbors So was that still