Chords for JOHNNY "GUITAR" WATSON - The Bear [Class 2092] 1959

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_ _ _ _ One day I went out hunting, was on a Sunday morning, it was against my religion, decided
I would take my gun, shot myself some deer with a quail and one little mule's a hammer.
On my way returning [Gb] home I met a big old quiverly [Bb] bear.
We were rocking, don't you know we were rocking.
I declared [C] we were shaking, [Bb] whole lot of trembling going on.
Yeah, well now, well I climbed up a tree, I turned my face to the air, I said, Lord,
if you can't help me, [Ebm] please don't you help [Bm] that bear.
[Bb] We were rocking, _ [Bbm] we were rocking.
[Gm] I declared [E] we were shaking, _ [Bb] whole lot of trembling going on.
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_ _ _ [Bb] Well now I thought it through pretty, it didn't do no good.
The bear just kept on a coming, just like I knew he would.
Well now, prayer's all right in prayer meeting, but prayer ain't good, Lord, in bear meeting.
We were rocking, I declared [Gm] we were rolling.
Don't you [D] know we were shaking, whole lot of [Bb] trembling going on.
Yeah, well now the bear climbed up the tree and then he reached to grab my hand.
And he shook my hand till he reached to the promised land.
[Eb] We were rocking, _ [Gm] I declared we were rolling.
Don't you [D] know we were shaking, [Bb] whole lot of trembling going on.
Yeah, well now, well now, just a trembling and a shaking, just a shaking _ _ and a,
Well now, just a shaking and a trembling and a, yeah, yeah, just a shaking and a trembling and a,
and just a trembling and a shaking and a trembling and a.
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