verse 1 
G 
High on a mountain top what do I see? 
                         C               G 
Bear tracks, bear tracks lookin' back at me. 
G 
Better get your rifles, boys, before it's too late; 
                               C              G 
The bear's got a pig, and he's headed for the gate. 


[Refrão]

           D                              G 
Well, he's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump; 
           D                            G 
He's going ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump. 

Aint never been cornered, aint never been treed; 
                      C        G 
Some folks say he's a lot like me. 

verse 2 
  G 
I saved up my money and bought me some bees; 
                         C         G 
Started making honey way up in the trees. 
G 
Cut down my tree and my honey's all gone; 
                  C               G 
Ol' Slewfoot done made himself at home. 


[Refrão]

           D                              G 
Well, he's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump; 
           D                            G 
He's going ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump. 

Aint never been cornered, aint never been treed; 
                      C        G 
Some folks say he's a lot like me. 

verse 3 
G 
Winter's coming on and it's forty below; 
                          C            G 
The lake's froze over, so where can he go? 
      G 
We'll chase him up a holler and run him in a well, 
                                    C             G 
And shoot him in the bottom just to listen to him yell. 


[Refrão]
 
           D                              G 
Well, he's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump; 
           D                            G 
He's going ninety miles an hour, takin' thirty feet a jump. 

Aint never been cornered, aint never been treed; 
                      C        G 
Some folks say he's a lot like me.