Johnny Cash Tiger Whitehead Lyrics

Tiger Whitehead Lyrics

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



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