Tiger Whitehead · letra

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Wild blackberries blooming in the thickest on the mountain Sheep shire and watercress are growing round the fountain Where a big black bear is drinking, lappin' water like a dog Tiger Whitehead's in the bed sleeping like a log But tomorrow he'll see bear tracks seven inches wide And by sundown he'll be bringing in the hide

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Pretty Sally Garland coming down the mountainside Where Tiger Whitehead's trying to nap a mill at the mill She sits down on a bearskin and she says you'll be my man I'll have me the best bear hunter in the hills A wild child was Tiger Whitehead and they say he killed Ninety-nine bears before he went to rest, went to rest Once he left two bear cubs orphaned but he brought them right on home And Sally nursed the two bear cubs upon her breast

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Tiger now is eighty-five and he lay upon his bed And the bears he killed now numbered ninety-nine, ninety-nine Some fellers trapped the bears but Tiger said just let him go If he ain’t running wild he won't be mine But at night when the wind howls cross the hills of eastern Tennessee And when the lightning flashes there's the strange thing that the people say they see An old grey-headed ghost running through the mountains there It's Tiger Whitehead after his one hundredth bear

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