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1. The other day (the other day)
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   I saw a bear (I saw a bear)
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   A great big bear (a great big bear)
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   Away up there (away up there.)
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   The other day I saw a bear
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   A great big bear away up there

2. He looked at me, I looked at him
   He sized up me, I sized up him.

3. He says to me, “Why don’t you run?
   I see you ain’t got any gun.”

4. And so I ran away from there
   And right behind me was the bear.

5. In front of me there was a tree
   A great big tree, Oh, golly gee.

6. The nearest branch was ten feet up
   I’d have to jump and trust my luck

7. And so I jumped into the air
   And missed the branch away up there

8. Now don’t you fret and don’t you frown
   I caught the branch on the way back down

9. That’s all there is there ain’t no more
   Until I meet that bear once more

10. The end the end the end the end
   This time it really is the end.