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Anyone have the lyrics from the "you had to be there" live version of gods own drunk? I love the whole skit about "sir" - wanted to send it to my wife

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GOD'S OWN DRUNK
Well, like to explain to you all before,
I ain't no drinkin' man
I tried it once and it got me highly irregular
And I swore I'd never do it again
I promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still
While he went in to town to vote
It was right up on the mountain
where the map said it would be
Friends let me tell you one thing,
tho it wasn't no ordinary still
It stood up on that mountainside
like a hugh golden opal
God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear evenin'
God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens

Like I explain'd to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man
But temptation got the best of me

And I took a slash

That yella whiskey runnin' down my throat
like honey dew vine water

And I took another slash,
Took another'n an another'n an another'n

For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that s***
and commenced to gettin' hot flashes

Goose pimples was runnin' up and down my body
And a feelin' came over me
like somethin' I'd never experienced before

It was like, like I was in love
In love for the first time, with anything that moved
Animate, inanimate it didn't matter
It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off
in my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'"

`Cause I was drunk

I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin'
Commode huggin' drunk

I was God's own drunk and a fearless man
And that's when I first saw the bear
He was a Kodiak lookin' fella `bout nineteen feet tall
He rambled up over the hill
expectin' me to do one of two things,
Flip or fly, I didn't do either one
It hung him up
He started sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell fear

But he ain't gonna smell no fear `cause
I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man
It hung him up

He looked right in my eyes, and my eyes
was a lot redder than his was
It hung him up

So I approached him, I said "Mr. Bear, I love
every hair on your twenty-seven acre body

I know you got a lot of friends over there
on the other side of the hill

There's ole' rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear
Really bear, smelly the bear, smokey the bear,
pokey the bear

I want you to go back over there tonight
And tell them I'm feelin' right
You tell them I love each and everyone of them
like a brother and a sister

But if they give me any trouble tonight
I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill"

He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think
Neither did I but bein' charitable and cautious
Well hell I approached him again
I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord
we're both beasts when it comes right down to it

So I want you to be my buddy, Buddy bear"

So I took ole' buddy bear by his island size paw
and I led him over to the still
He's a sniffin' around that thing cause
he's smellin' somethin' good
I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water
He downed it up right
Looked like one of them damn bears in the circus
Sippin' sasparilly in the moonlight
I gave him another'n an another'n an another'n
For I knew it he downed eight of them
and commenced to doin' the bear dance
Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt
It was so simple like the jitter bug
It plum evaded me
We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar

And I was awful tired and went over to the hillside
and I laid down and went to sleep

Slept for four hours and dreampt me some tremulous dreams

When I woke up, there was God's yeller moon
shinin' on the clear cool evenin'

God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off
in the heavens

My buddy the bear was a missin'
Want to know something else friends and neighbors
So was that still

surfpirate wrote:From the Song and Lyrics Database right here at BuffettNews (check the links shown at the top of this page) .....

GOD'S OWN DRUNK
Well, like to explain to you all before,
I ain't no drinkin' man
I tried it once and it got me highly irregular
And I swore I'd never do it again
I promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still
While he went in to town to vote
It was right up on the mountain
where the map said it would be
Friends let me tell you one thing,
tho it wasn't no ordinary still
It stood up on that mountainside
like a hugh golden opal
God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear evenin'
God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens

Like I explain'd to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man
But temptation got the best of me

And I took a slash

That yella whiskey runnin' down my throat
like honey dew vine water

And I took another slash,
Took another'n an another'n an another'n

For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that s***
and commenced to gettin' hot flashes

Goose pimples was runnin' up and down my body
And a feelin' came over me
like somethin' I'd never experienced before

It was like, like I was in love
In love for the first time, with anything that moved
Animate, inanimate it didn't matter
It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off
in my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'"

`Cause I was drunk

I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin'
Commode huggin' drunk

I was God's own drunk and a fearless man
And that's when I first saw the bear
He was a Kodiak lookin' fella `bout nineteen feet tall
He rambled up over the hill
expectin' me to do one of two things,
Flip or fly, I didn't do either one
It hung him up
He started sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell fear

But he ain't gonna smell no fear `cause
I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man
It hung him up

He looked right in my eyes, and my eyes
was a lot redder than his was
It hung him up

So I approached him, I said "Mr. Bear, I love
every hair on your twenty-seven acre body

I know you got a lot of friends over there
on the other side of the hill

There's ole' rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear
Really bear, smelly the bear, smokey the bear,
pokey the bear

I want you to go back over there tonight
And tell them I'm feelin' right
You tell them I love each and everyone of them
like a brother and a sister

But if they give me any trouble tonight
I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill"

He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think
Neither did I but bein' charitable and cautious
Well hell I approached him again
I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord
we're both beasts when it comes right down to it

So I want you to be my buddy, Buddy bear"

So I took ole' buddy bear by his island size paw
and I led him over to the still
He's a sniffin' around that thing cause
he's smellin' somethin' good
I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water
He downed it up right
Looked like one of them damn bears in the circus
Sippin' sasparilly in the moonlight
I gave him another'n an another'n an another'n
For I knew it he downed eight of them
and commenced to doin' the bear dance
Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt
It was so simple like the jitter bug
It plum evaded me
We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar

And I was awful tired and went over to the hillside
and I laid down and went to sleep

Slept for four hours and dreampt me some tremulous dreams

When I woke up, there was God's yeller moon
shinin' on the clear cool evenin'

God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off
in the heavens

My buddy the bear was a missin'
Want to know something else friends and neighbors
So was that still

Thanks, surf pirate!

FinsUp6835 wrote:

surfpirate wrote:From the Song and Lyrics Database right here at BuffettNews (check the links shown at the top of this page) .....

GOD'S OWN DRUNK
Well, like to explain to you all before,
I ain't no drinkin' man
I tried it once and it got me highly irregular
And I swore I'd never do it again
I promised my brother in-law that I'd go up watch his still
While he went in to town to vote
It was right up on the mountain
where the map said it would be
Friends let me tell you one thing,
tho it wasn't no ordinary still
It stood up on that mountainside
like a hugh golden opal
God's yeller moon shinin' on the cool clear evenin'
God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off in the heavens

Like I explain'd to you once before I ain't no drinkin' man
But temptation got the best of me

And I took a slash

That yella whiskey runnin' down my throat
like honey dew vine water

And I took another slash,
Took another'n an another'n an another'n

For you knew I'd downed one whole jug of that s***
and commenced to gettin' hot flashes

Goose pimples was runnin' up and down my body
And a feelin' came over me
like somethin' I'd never experienced before

It was like, like I was in love
In love for the first time, with anything that moved
Animate, inanimate it didn't matter
It's like there's a great neon sign flashin' on an' off
in my brain sayin' "Jimmy Buffett there's a great day a comin'"

`Cause I was drunk

I wasn't knee crawlin', slip slidin', Reggie Youngin'
Commode huggin' drunk

I was God's own drunk and a fearless man
And that's when I first saw the bear
He was a Kodiak lookin' fella `bout nineteen feet tall
He rambled up over the hill
expectin' me to do one of two things,
Flip or fly, I didn't do either one
It hung him up
He started sniffin' around my body tryin' to smell fear

But he ain't gonna smell no fear `cause
I'm God's own drunk and a fearless man
It hung him up

He looked right in my eyes, and my eyes
was a lot redder than his was
It hung him up

So I approached him, I said "Mr. Bear, I love
every hair on your twenty-seven acre body

I know you got a lot of friends over there
on the other side of the hill

There's ole' rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear
Really bear, smelly the bear, smokey the bear,
pokey the bear

I want you to go back over there tonight
And tell them I'm feelin' right
You tell them I love each and everyone of them
like a brother and a sister

But if they give me any trouble tonight
I'm gonna run every God damn one of them off the hill"

He took two steps backwards and didn't know what to think
Neither did I but bein' charitable and cautious
Well hell I approached him again
I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord
we're both beasts when it comes right down to it

So I want you to be my buddy, Buddy bear"

So I took ole' buddy bear by his island size paw
and I led him over to the still
He's a sniffin' around that thing cause
he's smellin' somethin' good
I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water
He downed it up right
Looked like one of them damn bears in the circus
Sippin' sasparilly in the moonlight
I gave him another'n an another'n an another'n
For I knew it he downed eight of them
and commenced to doin' the bear dance
Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt
It was so simple like the jitter bug
It plum evaded me
We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar

And I was awful tired and went over to the hillside
and I laid down and went to sleep

Slept for four hours and dreampt me some tremulous dreams

When I woke up, there was God's yeller moon
shinin' on the clear cool evenin'

God's little lanterns twinklin' on and off
in the heavens

My buddy the bear was a missin'
Want to know something else friends and neighbors
So was that still

Thanks, surf pirate!

Actually I posted before I fully read it. This don't not include the "sir" part or the sun glass part

Print out a copy of the lyrics Bob posted, grab a red pencil (if I remember correctly, you're a teacher so you must have an ample supply ), listen to the "You Had To Be There" version, edit where necessary.

LIPH wrote:Print out a copy of the lyrics Bob posted, grab a red pencil (if I remember correctly, you're a teacher so you must have an ample supply ), listen to the "You Had To Be There" version, edit where necessary.

That is what I was trying to avoid!!!! That would involve work - I was hoping for the easy way out.

And they say you shouldn't grade in red. Although my school is pretty much all paperless, and I grade all papers on the iPad

Here are the complete lyrics to Gods Own Drunk from You Had to Be There:
(Note: This version is 13 minutes long)

God’s Own Drunk

by Lord Buckley

Well, like I’ve explained many times in this town before,
I ain’t no drinkin’ man
I quit in Miami on Sunday
As My knees where shakin’ and my teeth were chatterin
I swore I’d never do it again
I promised my brother in-law that I’d go up to watch his still
While he went in to town to vote

It was right up on the mountain
where the map said it would be
Friends let me tell you one thing,
this wasn’t no ordinary still
It stood up on that mountain side
like a hugh golden opal

God’s little lantern’s twinklin on and off in the heavens
God’s big old yellow moon shinin’ on the cool clear evenin’
Like I’ve explained many times before I ain’t no drinkin’ man
But on that particular occasion
This feeling comes over me
The temptation got the best of me
And I took a slash
That yella whiskey runnin’ down my throat
tasted like honey dew vine water
And I took another slash,
Took another’n an another’n an another’n
For you knew It I downed one whole jug of that s***
and commenced to gettin’ hot flashes

Goose pimples was runnin’ up and down my body
And this feelin’ came over me
like somethin’ I’d never experienced before
It was like, like I was in love

In love for the 935th time, with anything that moved
Animate, inanimate cone head no cone it didn’t matter
It’s like there’s a great neon sign flashin’ on an’ off
in my brain sayin’ "Jimmy Buffett you fool, there’s a great day a comin’"
`Cause I was drunk

I wasn’t knee crawlin’, coral reeferin’
Commode huggin’ drunk
I was God’s own drunk and a fearless man
And that’s when I first saw the bear

He was a Kodiak lookin’ fella `bout nineteen feet tall
He rambled up over the hill
expecting’ me to do one of two things,
Flip or fly, I didn’t do either one
It hung him up
He started sniffin’ around my body tryin’ to smell fear
But he ain’t gonna smell no fear `cause
I’m God’s own drunk and a fearless man
It hung him up

I had him on the run I thought to myself
Until he ate my sunglasses to show me he was a bad ass
And I had Just stole them from Eckerd’s and I was really p*** off
Had a Eight dollar price tag on the sons of bitches
So when he pulled them off, my eyes
was a lot redder than his was
It hung him up

So I said "Mr. Bear, Sir. that respectful way you say sir
It’s like when your driving down the highway and you got
Feelin pretty confident ’cause you got a buzz buster in your car
19 smushed out joints an empty vile on the front seat, 27 cases of Budweiser in the back seat and the cops stop you
Yes Sir, I wouldn’t doin s***. Then he leans on you
So you gotta be nice and you go Please don’t take me in my old lady will kick my ass
I was only supposed to go to Buckhead to get the paper, next thing I knew I was on I-75 headed for Florida

Sir, I love every hair on your twenty-seven acre body
I know you got a lot of friends over there
on the other side of stone mountain
There’s ole’ rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear
Really bear, smelly the bear, smokey the bear,
pokey the bear
I want you to go back over there tonight
And tell them I’m feelin’ right
You tell them I love each and everyone of them
like a brother and a sister
But if they give me any trouble tonight
As much as I hate to do it, I'm gonna have to run every God damn one of them right off the hill"

That’s what I Told him. He took two steps back and didn’t know what to say
Neither did I but I was god’s own drunk and a fearless man
I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord
we’re both beasts when it comes right down to it
So I want you to be my buddy, Buddy bear"
So I took ole’ buddy bear by his island size paw
and I led him over to the still
He’s a sniffin’ around that thing cause
he’s smellin’ somethin’ good
I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water
He downed it up right
Looked like one of them bears in the circus
Sippin’ sasparilly in the moonlight
I gave him another’n an another’n an another’n
For I knew it he downed about eight of them
and commenced to doin’ the bear dance
First of all, you have to slide into second base, break your leg, Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt
It was so simple like the bungalow
It plum evaded me

We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar
And I was awful tired and went over to the hillside
and I laid down and went to sleep
Slept for four hours and dreamt me some tremulous dreams
Think Cheryl Tweed was in one of ‘em
When I woke up, there was God’s yeller moon
shinin’ on the clear cool evenin’
God’s little lanterns twinklin’ on and off
in the heavens
And I looked around, no one to be found
Seems My buddy the bear was a missin’
Want to know something else friends and neighbors
So was that still

urlcenter wrote:Here are the complete lyrics to Gods Own Drunk from You Had to Be There:
(Note: This version is 13 minutes long)

God’s Own Drunk

by Lord Buckley

Well, like I’ve explained many times in this town before,
I ain’t no drinkin’ man
I quit in Miami on Sunday
As My knees where shakin’ and my teeth were chatterin
I swore I’d never do it again
I promised my brother in-law that I’d go up to watch his still
While he went in to town to vote

It was right up on the mountain
where the map said it would be
Friends let me tell you one thing,
this wasn’t no ordinary still
It stood up on that mountain side
like a hugh golden opal

God’s little lantern’s twinklin on and off in the heavens
God’s big old yellow moon shinin’ on the cool clear evenin’
Like I’ve explained many times before I ain’t no drinkin’ man
But on that particular occasion
This feeling comes over me
The temptation got the best of me
And I took a slash
That yella whiskey runnin’ down my throat
tasted like honey dew vine water
And I took another slash,
Took another’n an another’n an another’n
For you knew It I downed one whole jug of that s***
and commenced to gettin’ hot flashes

Goose pimples was runnin’ up and down my body
And this feelin’ came over me
like somethin’ I’d never experienced before
It was like, like I was in love

In love for the 935th time, with anything that moved
Animate, inanimate cone head no cone it didn’t matter
It’s like there’s a great neon sign flashin’ on an’ off
in my brain sayin’ "Jimmy Buffett you fool, there’s a great day a comin’"
`Cause I was drunk

I wasn’t knee crawlin’, coral reeferin’
Commode huggin’ drunk
I was God’s own drunk and a fearless man
And that’s when I first saw the bear

He was a Kodiak lookin’ fella `bout nineteen feet tall
He rambled up over the hill
expecting’ me to do one of two things,
Flip or fly, I didn’t do either one
It hung him up
He started sniffin’ around my body tryin’ to smell fear
But he ain’t gonna smell no fear `cause
I’m God’s own drunk and a fearless man
It hung him up

I had him on the run I thought to myself
Until he ate my sunglasses to show me he was a bad ass
And I had Just stole them from Eckerd’s and I was really p*** off
Had a Eight dollar price tag on the sons of bitches
So when he pulled them off, my eyes
was a lot redder than his was
It hung him up

So I said "Mr. Bear, Sir. that respectful way you say sir
It’s like when your driving down the highway and you got
Feelin pretty confident ’cause you got a buzz buster in your car
19 smushed out joints an empty vile on the front seat, 27 cases of Budweiser in the back seat and the cops stop you
Yes Sir, I wouldn’t doin s***. Then he leans on you
So you gotta be nice and you go Please don’t take me in my old lady will kick my ass
I was only supposed to go to Buckhead to get the paper, next thing I knew I was on I-75 headed for Florida

Sir, I love every hair on your twenty-seven acre body
I know you got a lot of friends over there
on the other side of stone mountain
There’s ole’ rare bear, tall bear, Freddy bear, Kelly bear
Really bear, smelly the bear, smokey the bear,
pokey the bear
I want you to go back over there tonight
And tell them I’m feelin’ right
You tell them I love each and everyone of them
like a brother and a sister
But if they give me any trouble tonight
As much as I hate to do it, I'm gonna have to run every God damn one of them right off the hill"

That’s what I Told him. He took two steps back and didn’t know what to say
Neither did I but I was god’s own drunk and a fearless man
I said "Mr. Bear, You know in the eyes of the Lord
we’re both beasts when it comes right down to it
So I want you to be my buddy, Buddy bear"
So I took ole’ buddy bear by his island size paw
and I led him over to the still
He’s a sniffin’ around that thing cause
he’s smellin’ somethin’ good
I gave him one of them jugs of honey dew vine water
He downed it up right
Looked like one of them bears in the circus
Sippin’ sasparilly in the moonlight
I gave him another’n an another’n an another’n
For I knew it he downed about eight of them
and commenced to doin’ the bear dance
First of all, you have to slide into second base, break your leg, Two snips, a snort, a fly turn, and a grunt
It was so simple like the bungalow
It plum evaded me

We worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar
And I was awful tired and went over to the hillside
and I laid down and went to sleep
Slept for four hours and dreamt me some tremulous dreams
Think Cheryl Tweed was in one of ‘em
When I woke up, there was God’s yeller moon
shinin’ on the clear cool evenin’
God’s little lanterns twinklin’ on and off
in the heavens
And I looked around, no one to be found
Seems My buddy the bear was a missin’
Want to know something else friends and neighbors
So was that still

Yes! url you are the best! next thing I know I was heading to Florida!!!!

Jimmy! Gotta love it.

Thanks again!