When the Bear Comes Back Again

Oh, the scene is wide an dreary an the sun is settin red,     An the grey-black sky of winters comin closer overhead.     Oh, the sun is settin bloody with a blood-line on the snow,     An across it to the westward you can see old Bruin go;     You can see old Shaggy go,     You can see the brown Bear go,     An hes draggin one leg arter, an hes travellin pretty slow.     We can send a long shot arter, but he doesnt seem to know,     Theres a thin red line behind him where its dripped across the snow;     He is weary an hes wounded, with his own blood hes half-blind,     He is licked an hes defeated, an hes left some cubs behind;     Yes, hes left some cubs behind;     Oh, hes left some cubs behind;     To the tune of sixty thousand he has left some cubs behind.     Oh, theyve pulled him by the nose-ring and theyve baited him in pits,     An they bluffed him, an they bruised him, an they mostly gave him fits;     But he hugged em badly one time when they tried him in his den,     An hell make it warm for someone when he comes back East again;     When the Bear comes back again,     When hes lopin round again,     Therell be lively times for Jacko when the Bear comes back again.     Oh, we chased him out of Turkey, I dont know for what idea,     It took two dogs an a lion for to beat him in Crimea;     Hes goin home to lick his wounds, hes goin to his den,     But hell make it warm for someone when he comes South-East again,     When the Bear comes back again,     When old Bruin comes again,     He will make some dead to die on when he comes back from his den.     Keep a sharp look-out behind you, every way you turn, my lad,     It dont matter who you might be, for you bet the Bear is mad;     Keep a sharp look-out to Norard, to the South an West an East,     For he mostly always finds you where you most expect him least;     Where you most expect him leastest,     Where you most expect him least,     Oh, youll catch him grabbin for yer where you most expect him least.