Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song God's Own Drunk, artist - Jimmy Buffett. Album song Living And Dying In 3 / 4 Time, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.1973
Record label: Universal Music
Song language: English
God's Own Drunk |
«Well, like I explained to y’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. |
But I promised my brother-in-law that I’d go up and watch his still |
while he went into town to vote. |
It was up there on the mountain where the map said it would be. |
Friends let me |
tell you one thing though, it wadn’t no ordinary still. |
It stood up that |
mountainside like… like a huge golden opal. |
God’s yellar moon was a' shinin' on the cool clear evenin', God’s little |
lanterns just a' twinklin' on and off in the heavens and, like I explained to |
you once before, I ain’t no drinkin' man, But, temptation got the best of me, |
and I took a slash… (wshew… woah…) That yellar whiskey runnin' down my |
throat like honeydew vine water, and I took another slash. |
Took another and |
another and another. |
'fore you knew it I’d downed one whole jug o' that shit |
and commenced to get hot flashes. |
Goosepimples was runnin' up and down my body and a feelin' came over me like, |
somethin' I’d never experienced before, It’s like, like I was in love, |
(«why don’t we have a little love Mike «) |
In love for the first time, with anything that moved… animate, |
in-animate it didn’t matter. |
It’s like there’s a great neon sign flashin' on |
and off in my brain sayin, «Jimmy Buffett there' a great day a comin'… |
«'Cause I was drunk. |
Now I wadn’t, uh, knee-crawlin', slip-slidin', reggy-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 19 feet tall he rambled up over the hill |
'spectin' me to do one of two things: flip or fly, I didn’t do either one. |
It hung him up. |
He starts sniffin' 'round 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 me right in my eyes and my eyes was a lot redder |
than his was. |
It hung him up. |
So I approached him and I said, «Mr. |
Bear, I love every hair on your 27 acre |
body. |
I know you got a lotta friends over there on the other side of the hill. |
There’s ole' Rear Bear, Tall Bear, Freddy Bear, Kelly Jair, Relly Bear, |
Smelly the Bear, Smokey the Bear, Pokey the Bear; |
I want you to go back over |
there tonight and tell 'em I’m feelin' right. |
You tell 'em I love each and |
every one of 'em like a brother and a sister; |
but if they give me any trouble |
tonight, I’m gonna run every Goddamned one of 'em off the hill.» |
He took two steps backwards and didn’t know what to think. |
Neither did I, but, |
being 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 sized paw and I led him over to the still. |
Now he’s a' |
sniffin' around that thing 'cause he’s smellin' somethin' good. |
I gave him one |
of them jugs of honeydew vine water, he downed it upright, (looked like one of |
them damn bears in the circus sippin' sasparilly in the moonlight. |
) I gave him another and another and another 'fore I knew it, he’d downed eight |
of 'em and commenced to do the «bear dance."Two sniffs, a snort, a fly, |
a turn and a grunt; |
and it was so simple like the jitterbug it plumb evaded me. |
And we worked ourselves into a tumultuous uproar and I’s awful tired, |
went over to the hillside, and I laid down, went to sleep, slept for four |
hours, and dreamt me some tremulous dreams And when I woke up, Oh, |
there was God’s yellar moon a' shinin' on the clear cool evenin'. |
And God’s little lanterns just a' twinklin' on and off in the heavens, |
And my buddy the bear was a' missin'… yeah, you want to know somethin' else |
friends and neighbors, so was that still. |
-- Spoken: |
«That's a take. |
Wait, could uh… you missed it?» |