Grizzly Bear Blues - Corb Lund

Should I run or should I stand?

It’s an old debate

'Cause sometimes it’s a bluff charge and then sometimes it ain’t

Can they run downhill?

Can they climb a tree?

Maybe that’s just black bears, I can’t remember, hmm let’s see

Should I shut up or should I shout and maybe try to scare him off?

Or will pretty much most anything I do just piss him off?

In the end it don’t matter what you choose to do of course

When eight hundred pounds of grizzly bear outruns a quarter horse

Well, them old grizzly blues got me kinda confused as to just what to do about

them bears

Yeah, them old grizzly blues got some conflicting views and not too much good

news about them bears

Well, I think I read it someplace, they kill only what they eat

So fumble through that guide book, just how often they eat meat?

Somebody find some answers, let’s do a study of some kind

We’ll make it scientific and let’s see what we can find

'Cause he’s looks almost friendly with that easy amblin' gait

But when he decides he’s hungry makes me wanna hibernate

Well, them old grizzly blues got me kinda confused as to just what to do about

them bears

Yeah, them old grizzly blues got some conflicting views and not too much good

news about them bears

We’ve all heard that old chestnut, you know you don’t outrun the grizz

You just outrun your slowest buddy, whoever that guy is

And that cub you found’s adorable, he’s cute, yes I agree

There’s only one thing missin' and that’s Momma, where is she?

They’ll dig up dead horses they smelled twenty miles away

Tommy said it happened on the ranch in just this way

Now I’m all for conservation, I say protect the kitchen sink

But this bear don’t seem endangered, it might be me that goes extinct

Well, them old grizzly blues got me kinda confused as to just what to do about

them bears

Yeah, them old grizzly blues got some conflicting views and not too much good

news about them bears