Ole Slew-foot Lyrics - Bill Monroe

OLE SLEW FOOT 

(Howard Hausey - Eddie Manney) 

'59 Cave Music 

High on the mountain what do you see 

Bear tracks bear tracks lookin' back at me 

You better get your rifles boys before it's too late 

The bear's got a little pig and headed through the gate 

He's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump 

Doin' ninety miles an hour takin' thirty feet a jump 

He never been caught and he ain't never been treed some folks say looks a lot like me 

I saved up my money and I bought me some bees 

They started makin' honey way up in the trees 

I chopped down the tree but my honey's all gone 

Ole Slew Foot's done made himself at home 

He's big around the middle... 

Winter's comin' on and it's twenty below the river's froze over so where can he go 

We'll chase him in the gully and we'll run him in the well 

And shoot him at the bottom and we'll listen to him yell 

He's big around the middle...