Dakota the Dancing Bear, Pt. II

Betty drove the semi, she pulled up to the pump

I thought I wanted a Coca-Cola and I started out on a jump

She said, "Hold it Dave, come quick, there's something you got to see

That man has got a dancing bear tied up to that old tree"

I said, "Dance, dance, Dakota dance all around the country store"

Me and sweet Betty ain't never seen

A bear that could dance before

Well, it's one step, two steps, three steps four

A bottle of soda and he'll dance some more

Dance, dance Dakota dance all around the country store

Well, these hippies walked up to the cage

Givin' pills to that ole bear

I don't know what it was they was giving to him

It had him pulling out his hair

I tried to keep time with the music,

Lord with the beat on my tambourine

Gave him some wine from a mason jar and we all began to sing

We said, "Dance, dance, Dakota dance all around the country store"

Me and sweet Betty ain't never seen

A bear that could dance before

Well, it's one step, two steps, three steps four

A bottle of soda and he'll dance some more

Dance, dance Dakota dance all around the country store

Well, I went out to Los Angeles, California and I saw a semi truck along the side of the road. it said 'D - kota The Dancing Bear' on the side of it.

Now they charged you 50 cents to watch this bear dance around a truck.

So I turned to Arlo and I said "Arlo, we ought to get down off these motorcycles and walk over there and see if that's the same bear that Betty told us about

when she was driving the semi truck for us back in Nashville, Tennessee."

So we got down off our motorcycles and we walked over there eatin' our pickles.

Now there was four or five hundred thousand of these hippies freaks standin' around waitin' on a rock festival.

It did appear that David Allan Coe, Kris Kristofferson and the Grand Funk Railroad was playin' in town that day

and their airplane had got hijacked somewhere over Chicago, Illinois.

So it turned out that the people with short hair started throwin' rocks at the people that had long hair.

And the people with long hair started throwing the rocks back.