Tiger Whitehead Lyrics - The Johnny Cash Children's - Johnny Cash

Wild blackberries bloomin' in the thickest on the mountain 

Sheep shire and water cress are growin' round the fountain 

Where a big black bear is drinkin' lappin' water like a dog 

Tiger Whitehead's in the bed sleepin' like a log 

Tomorrow he'll see bear tracks seven intches wide 

And by sundown he'll be bringin' in the hide 

Pretty Sally Garland comin' down the mountain side 

Where Tiger Whitehead's tryin' to nap a mill at the mill 

She sits down on a bearskin and she says you'll be my man 

I'll have me the best bearhunter in the hills 

A wild child was Tiger Whitehead and they say he killed 

Ninety-nine bears before he went to rest went to rest 

Once he left two bearcubs orphaned but he brought 'em right on home 

And Sally nursed the two bearcubs upon her breast 

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Tiger now is eighty-five and he lay upon his bed 

And the bears he killed now numbered ninety-nine ninety-nine 

Some fellers trapped the bears but Tiger said just let him go 

If he ain't running wild he won't be mine 

But at night when the wind howls cross eastern hills of Tennessee 

And when the lightnin' flashes there's the strange thing that the people say they see 

An old grey headed ghost runnin' through the mountains there 

It's Tiger Whitehead after his one hundreth bear 

Wild blackberries bloomin' in the thickest on the mountain 

Sheep shire and water cress are growin' round the fountain 

Where a big black bear is drinkin' lappin' water like a dog 

Tiger Whitehead's in the bed sleepin' like a log 

Tomorrow he'll see bear tracks seven intches wide 

And by sundown he'll be bringin' in the hide 

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