Bear Creek blues
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1. Way up on Bear Creek, watching the sun go
down,
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way up on
Bear Creek, watching the sun go down,
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it makes me feel like I'm on
my last go-'round.
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2. The water on Bear Creek, it tastes like cherry wine,
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the water on Bear Creek, it
tastes like cherry wine,
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you can take one drink of it, you're drinking it all the time.
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3. If you stay on Bear Creek, you'll get like Jesse James,
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if you stay on Bear Creek,
you'll get like Jesse James,
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you'll take two old pistols
and hold up that Bear Creek train.
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4. I'm going high, high up on some lonesome hill,
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I'm going high, high up on
some lonesome hill,
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look down on Bear Creek where
my good gal used to live.
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Recorded 10/4/40 -
(The Carter Family)