The other day (the other day)
I met a bear (I met a bear)
A great big bear (a great big bear)
away up there (away up there)
The other day I met a bear 
A great big bear, away up there 

[echo continues, but I won't write it out each time...]
He looked at me, I looked at him
He sized me up, I sized up him.

He said to me, "Why don't you run?
I see you don't have any gun."

And so I ran, right out of there
And right behind - me came that bear.

Ahead of me, there was a tree
A great big tree, oh la dee dee!

The lowest branch was ten feet up
I'd have to jump and trust my luck

And so I jumped into the air
But I missed that branch, away up there

Now don't you fret, and don't you frown
'Cuz I caught that branch, on the way back down

That's all there is, there ain't no more
Unless I meet that bear once more.

The end, the end - the end, the end
This time it real-ly is the end!

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