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    Requested Song

       Betty and the Bear.
In a pioneer cabin out West, so they say,
A great big black grizzly trotted on day,
And seated himself on the hearth and began
To lap up the contents of a gallon pan
Of milk and potatoes, an excellent meal,
Then began looking about to see what else
  he could steal.

The lord of the mansion awoke from his    sleep,
And hearing a racket he ventured to peep,
Just out in the kitchen to see what was    there,
And was scared to behold a groat grizzly    bear.
So he screamed in alarm to his slumbering    frau:
"There's a bar in the kitchen as big as a    cow."

"A what!  Why a bar.  Well murder him    thin."
"Yes, Betty, I will if you'll frist        venture in."
So Betty leaped up and the poker she       seized, While
her man shut the door and against it    he squeezed.
Then while Betty layed on Sir Bruin, her    blows. Now
on his forehead, now on his nose.

Her man through the keyhole kept abouting    within.
"Well done my brave Betty, now hit him    again" "Now on
his forehead, now on his snout, Now Poke wid the poker
and poke his eyes    out." So with rapping and poking
poor Betty    "alone" At last layed Sir Bruin as dead as
a stone.

Now when her many saw the bear was no more,
He ventured to poke his nost out of the    door,
And there was the grizzly stretched out on    the floor.
So off to the neighbors, he hastened to    tell, All the
wonderful thing that morning    befell, "Oh yes, come
and see it; come see what we    did. Me and Betty did
it."
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