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    Way up on Bear Creek, watching the sun go down,
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    way up on Bear Creek, watching the sun go down,
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    it makes me feel like I'm on my last go-'round.

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   The water on Bear Creek, it tastes like cherry wine,
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    the water on Bear Creek, it tastes like cherry wine,
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    you can take one drink of it, you're drinking it all the time.

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    If you stay on Bear Creek, you'll get like Jesse James,
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    if you stay on Bear Creek, you'll get like Jesse James,
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    you'll take two old pistols and hold up that Bear Creek train.

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    I'm going high, high up on some lonesome hill,
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    I'm going high, high up on some lonesome hill,
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    look down on Bear Creek where my good gal used to live.

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