Lyr Req: Baptise The Bear - Song Snippet

Subject: Lyr Req: Baptise The Bear - Song Snippet
From: voyager
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 12:13 PM

At the Wayne Henderson/Herb Key concert last night, Herb sang a
country tune that ended with the punch line about Preacher
"Baptising the Bear".

The basic storyline was about a Preacher climbing a tree to avoid
the critter. A dialogue with his Maker about sparing the preacher's
life. A broken limb, a fight with the bear (using a razor) and a
wrestling match that ends in the river. And what a way to "Baptise
the Bear".

OK Mudcat....take it away.

voyager
Silver Spring, MD.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baptise The Bear - Song Snippet
From: EBarnacle
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 12:16 PM

This is best known as "The Preacher and the Bear."

It has also devolved into a joke about an Evangelist, a Catholic Priest and a Rabbi attempting to convert various bears in the wild.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baptise The Bear - Song Snippet
From: voyager
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 03:14 PM

Thanks Barnacle!

Found the 1997 Mudcat Thread Over Here -->
Preacher and the Bear - Mudcat Thread

voyager

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baptise The Bear - Song Snippet
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 08:05 PM

I think, in so perilous a situation as that, I might have happened on a way to baptize the bear without leaving the tree.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. :||

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Baptise The Bear - Song Snippet
From: voyager
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 02:29 PM

Found the 1904 Sheet Music!'

Preacher and the Bear - 1904

voyager