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Way up on Bear Creek 
Watching the sun go down 
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Way up on Bear Creek 
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Watching he sun go down 
         A7 
Well, it makes me feel like 
                  D 
I'm on my last go 'round 

D 
Well, the water up on Bear Creek 
Tastes like cherry wine 
          G 
Yeah, the water up on Bear Creek 
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Tastes like cherry wine 
    A7 
One drink of that water 
                       D 
You stay drunk all the time 

Instrumental: 
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D 
If you stay up on Bear Creek 

You'll get like Jesse James 
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If you stay up on Bear Creek 
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You'll get like Jesse James 
       A7 
You'll take two pistols 
                        D 
And rob that Bear Creek train 

Instrumental: 
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D 
I'm going.......high, high 
Up on some lonesome hill 

    G 
I'm going....... high, high 
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Up on some lonesome hill 

        A7   
To look down on Bear Creek 
                          D 
Where my good gal used to live 

D 
Way up on Bear Creek 

Watching the sun go down 
G 
Way up on Bear Creek 
                   D 
Watching he sun go down 
     A7 
Well it makes me feel like 
                  A7 
I'm on my last go 'round 

End: 
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