Tiger Whitehead

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Wild blackberries bloomin' in the 
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thickets on the mountain,
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Sheep shire and water cress are 
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growin' round the fountain,
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Where a big black bear is drinkin' 
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lappin' water like a dog,
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Tiger Whitehead's in the bed, 
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sleepin' like a log.
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But tomorrow he'll see bear tracks 
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seven inches wide,
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And by sundown he'll be bringin' 
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in the hide.
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Pretty Sally Garland comin' down
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 the mountain side,
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Where Tiger Whitehead's tryin' to 
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nap a mill, at the mill,
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She sits down on a bearskin and 
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she says, “You'll be my man,
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I'll have me the best bear hunter 
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in these hills.”
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A wild child was Tiger Whitehead 
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and they say he killed
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Ninety-nine bears before he went to
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 rest, went to rest,
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Once he left two bear cubs 
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orphaned but he brought 'em right on
 home,
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And Sally nursed the two bear cubs
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 upon her breast.


[Chorus]

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Tiger now is eighty-five and he 
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lay upon his bed,
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And the bears he killed now 
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numbered ninety-nine, ninety-nine.
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Some fellers trapped the bear, but
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 Tiger said, “Just let him go,
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If he ain't running wild he won't 
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be mine.”

            Em
But at the night when the wind howls
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Cross the hills of eastern 
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Tennessee,
     Em
And when the lightnin' flashes,
There's the strange thing that the 
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people say they see :
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An old grey headed ghost runnin' 
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through mountains there,
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It's Tiger Whitehead after his one
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 hundredth bear.
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Wild blackberries bloomin' in the 
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thickets on the mountain,
C                             
Sheep shire and water cress are 
    G
growin' round the fountain,
         C                         
Where a big black bear is drinkin',
          G           Em
 lappin' water like a dog,
  A                          
Tiger Whitehead's in the bed, 
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sleepin' like a log.
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But tomorrow he'll see bear tracks 
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seven inches wide,
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And by sundown he'll be bringin' 
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in the hide.