Dakota The Dancing Bear Pt Ii

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Betty drove the semi, she pulled up to the pump
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I thought I wanted a Coca-Cola and I started out on the jump.
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She said, "Hold it Dave, come quick, there's something you got to see
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That man has got a dancin’ bear tied up to that old tree."


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I said, "Dance, dance, Dakota dance all around the country store."
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Me and sweet Betty ain't never seen, a bear that could dance before
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Well, its one step, two steps, three steps four
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A bottle of soda and he'll dance some more
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Dance, dance, Dakota dance all around the country store.


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Well, these hippies walked up to the cage
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Givin' pills to that ole bear
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I don't know what it was they was giving to him
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It had him pullin’ out his hair
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I tried to keep time with the music,
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Lord with the beat on my tambourine
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Gave him some wine from a mason jar and we all began to sing


[Chorus]
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We sang, "Dance, dance, Dakota dance all around the country store."
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Me and sweet Betty ain't never seen, a bear that could dance before
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Well, its one step, two steps, three steps four
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A bottle of soda and he'll dance some more
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Dance, dance, Dakota dance all around the country store.


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Well, I went out to Los Angeles, California and I saw a semi truck along the side of the road.
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It said 'Dakota the dancin’ bear on the side of it. Now they charged you 50
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cents to watch this bear dance around a truck. So I turned to Arlow and I said,
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"Arlow, we ought to get down off these motorcycles and walk over there and see
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if that's the same bear that Betty told us about when she was driving the semi truck for us back
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Nashville, Tennessee." so we got down off our motorcycles and we walked over there eaten' our 
pickles.
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Now there was four or five hundred thousand of these hippies

freaks standin' around waitin' on a
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rock festival. It appeared that David Allan Coe, Kris Kristofferson and The
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Grand Funk Railroad was playin' in
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town that day and their airplane had got hijacked somewhere over Chicago,
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Illinois. So it turned out that the
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people with short hair started throwing' rocks at the people that had long hair.
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And the people with long hair started throwin’ the rocks back.  We come
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to find out in California when they had a rock
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festival, you were supposed to carry your own rocks.  Well I walked over to the
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bear’s cage and he said,

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 “I know you you’re David Allan Coe and Arlow Guthroey that sings country and

western music on juke box, radio, and television. And y’all gave me some acid

when I was in Nashville and started me dancin around this truck.” And I

said, “that’s right son that’s why I’m here because you signed a contract with

me, and you owe me 20% of all the money you’ve been makin' since you been out

here on the road.” He said, “man I ain’t got no money” I said, “what you do

with it?” He pointed to the next cage and there was a female bear over there

shootin' up heroin and before I could say anything I turned around and I saw a

Greyhound bus painted black and white and it said “The David Allan Coe Show -

The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy and The Tennessee Hat Band” on the side of

it.  And there was a woman drivin' the bus.  And sure enough there was old push

up Betty and she didn’t have no bra on. And she said to me…

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She said, "Hey Dave, come quick, there's something you got to see
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That man has got a dancin’ bear tied up to that old tree."


[Chorus]
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I said, "Dance, dance, Dakota dance all around the country store."
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Me and sweet Betty ain't never seen, a bear that could dance before
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Well, its one step, two steps, three steps four
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A bottle of soda and he'll dance some more
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Dance, dance, Dakota dance all around the country store.

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A yodellee lyo ooo laeeeee