Bear Tracks
The Petersens
Key of D · Chords: I IV V
Open in Bluegrass Book: transpose, play alongVerse 1
N.C. High on a mountain what do you see? D G D Bear tracks, bear tracks lookin' back at me D Better get your rifles, boys, before it's too late D G D The bear's got a little pig, and he's headed for the gate
Chorus
A G D Well he's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump A G D Running ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump D He ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treed D G D Some folks say he looks a lot like me
Instrumental
D D G D D D G D A G D A G D D D G D
Verse 2
D I saved up my money and I bought me some bees D G D They started making honey way up in the trees D I cut down the tree but my honey's all gone D G D Ol' Slew Foot done made himself at home
Chorus
A G D He's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump A G D Running ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump D He ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treed D G D Some folks say he looks a lot like me
Instrumental
D D G D D D G D A G D A G D D D G D
Verse 3
D Winter's coming on and it's twenty below D G D And the river's froze over so where can he go? D We'll chase him up the gully, then we'll run him in the well D G D We'll shoot him in the bottom just to listen to him yell
Chorus
A G D Well he's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump A G D Running ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump D He ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treed D G D Some folks say he looks a lot like me
Chorus
A G D Oh he's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump A G D Running ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump D He ain't never been caught, he ain't never been treed D G D Some folks say he looks a lot like me
Outro
D G D
Some folks say he looks a lot like me