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Thread #80347   Message #3394235
Posted By: GUEST
23-Aug-12 - 07:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: On a Bright and Summer's Morning
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: On a Bright and Summer's Morning
The Karen Wallace tape has fragments of Bob Dylan singing a version of this song (listed as Abner Young). I wonder who he learned this from...

These are the lyrics that I could make out:

(...)
I saw this great big fat grizzly bear
Keep coming after, keep coming after
Oh coming after me

With the money that I got for the venison skin
I hauled it to my father's farm
And ??
Oh I ??

Oh I went on up the mountain, the mountain by and by
The moon come round with lightning speed
"I'll take a ride," says (...)

Oh I rode on top of the moon, it took a sudden twirl
I lost my balance and I fell off
And I landed in this
Oh I landed in this world

The boys and girls were scheming (...)
The ice broke through, they all fell in
The rest they ran
Oh the rest they ran away

The man who ??, his name is Abner Young
If you can tell a bigger lie
I swear you ought to be
I swear you ought to be hung