Old Slew Foot

Key of A · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

A
High on a mountain top what do I see?
A                        D               A
Bear tracks, bear tracks lookin' back at me
A
Better get your rifles, boy, before it's too late
A                                     D                  A
The bear's got a little pig, and he's headed through the gate

Verse 2

           E                              A
Well, he's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump
           E                            A
He's going ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump
A
He ain’t never been caught, he ain’t never been treed
A                     D        A
Some folks say he's a lot like me

Verse 3

I saved up my money and bought me some bees
And they started making honey way up in the trees
Cut down my tree and my honey's all gone
Ol' Slewfoots done made himself at home

Chorus

Winter's coming on and it's twenty below
And the rivers froze over, so where can he go?
We'll chase him up the gully and run him in a well,
And shoot him in the bottom just to listen to him yell