Johnny Cash — Tom G
Confira a cifra completa de Tiger Whitehead no UkeMaster Pro.
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Wild blackberries bloomin' in the thickets on the mountain,
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sheep shire and water cress are growin' round the fountain,
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where a big black bear is drinkin' lappin' water like a dog,
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Tiger Whitehead's in the bed, sleepin' like a log.
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But tomorrow he'll see bear tracks seven inches wide,
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and by sundown he'll be bringin' in the hide.
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Pretty Sally Garland comin' down the mountain side,
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where Tiger Whitehead's tryin' to nap a mill, at the mill,
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she sits down on a bearskin and she says, “You'll be my man,
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I'll have me the best bearhunter in these hills.”
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A wild child was Tiger Whitehead and they say he killed
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ninety-nine bears before he went to rest, went to rest,
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once he left two bearcubs orphaned but he brought 'em right on home,
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and Sally nursed the two bearcubs upon her breast.
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Tiger now is eighty-five and he lay upon his bed,
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and the bears he killed now numbered ninety-nine, ninety-nine.
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Some fellers trapped the bear, but Tiger said, “Just let him go,
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if he ain't running wild he won't be mine.”
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But at the night when the wind howls
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'cross the hills of eastern Tennessee,
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and when the lightnin' flashes,
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there's the strange thing that the people say they see :
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an old grey headed ghost runnin' through mountains there,
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it's Tiger Whitehead after his one hundredth bear.
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Wild blackberries bloomin' in the thickets on the mountain,
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sheep shire and water cress are growin' round the fountain,
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where a big black bear is drinkin', lappin' water like a dog,
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Tiger Whitehead's in the bed, sleepin' like a log.
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But tomorrow he'll see bear tracks seven inches wide,
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and by sundown he'll be bringin' in the hide.