Bob Dylan - Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Chords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Well I saw it advertised one day that the Bear Mountain Picnic was coming my way,
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Come along and take a trip we'll bring you up there on a ship
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bring the wife and family bring the whole kids - yippee!
 
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[Verse 2]
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Well I ran right down and bought a ticket to this thing called the Bear Mountain Picnic
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Little did I realise I was in for a pleasant funny surprise -
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It had nothing to do with picnics, didn't come close to a mountain, I hate bears.
 
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[Verse 3]
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Took the wife and kids down to the pier, there was 6000 people there
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everybody had a ticket for the trip, "Oh well I said it's a pretty big ship".
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           Besides anyhow the more the merrier!
 
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[Verse 4]
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Well we all got on and what do you think, that big old boat started to sink.
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More people kept piling on and that old ship was going down -
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          funny way to start a picnic.
 
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[Verse 5]
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Well I soon lost track of my kids and wife so many people I never saw in my life,
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that old ship was sinking down in the water there were 6000 people trying to kill each other.
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Dogs barking, cats a-screaming, women a-yelling, men a-flying, fists a-flying,
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paper flying, cops a-comiing, me a-running - I think we'd better just call off the picnic.
 
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[Verse 6]
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I got shoved down and got pushed around all I remember was a moaning sound
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Don't remember one thing more all I remember is waking up on the shore.
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My arms and legs were broken, my feet were splintered, my head was cracked,
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I couldn't walk, I couldn't talk, smell, feel, I couldn't see,
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I didn't know where I was, I was bald, quite lucky to be alive though.
 
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[Verse 7]
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Well feeling lucky I just climbed out of my casket, I just grabbed back hold of my picnic basket,
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took the wife and kids and started home wishing I'd never got up that morning.
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Now I don't care just what you do if you want to have a picnic thats up to you,
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but don't tell me about it I don't want to hear it, you see I just lost all of my picnic spirit.
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             I'll stay in my kitchen. Have a picnic in my bathroom.
 
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[Verse 8]
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Well it don't seem to me quite so funny what some people are gonna do for money,
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there's a brand new gimmick every day, just to take somebodys money away.
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I think we oughta take some of these people, put 'em on a boat, send 'em up to bear mountain for a picnic.
 
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