The other day, I met a bear.
A way up there, a great big bear.
He looked at me, I looked at him.
He sized up me, 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 away from there.
And right behind me was that bear.
Ahead of me I saw a tree.
A great big tree, oh golly gee!
The lowest branch was ten feet up.
I had to jump and trust my luck.
And so I jumped into the air.
And missed that branch a way up there.
Now don't you fret and don't you frown.
I caught that branch on the way back down.
That's all there is, there is no more.
Until I meet that bear once more.
The end, the end, the end, the end.
This time it really is the end!