by: david allan coe and larry murray

betty drove the semi, she pulled up to the pump i
thought i wanted a coca-cola and i started out on
the jump she said, "hold it dave, come quick,
there's something you got to see that man had got
a dancing bear tied up to that old tree"

i said, "dance, dance, dakota dance all
around the country store" me and sweet betty
ain't never seen a bear that could dance before
well, it's one step, two steps, three steps four a
bottle of soda and he'll dance some more dance,
dance dakota dance all around the country store

well, these hippies walked up to the cage giving'
pills to that ole bear i don't know what it was
they was giving to him it had him pulling out his
hair i tried to keep time with the music, lord
with the beat on my tambourine gave him some wine
from a mason jar and we all began to sing

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well, i went out to los angeles, california and i
saw a semi truck along the side of the road. it
said 'dakota the dancing bear' on the side of it.
now they charged you 50 cents to watch this bear
dance around a truck. so i turned to arlo and i
said "arlo, we ought to get down off these
motorcycles and walk over there and see if that's
the same bear that betty told us about when she
was driving the semi truck for us back in
nashville, tennessee." so we got down off our
motorcycles and we walked over there eaten' our
pickles. now there was four or five hundred
thousand of these hippies freaks standing' around
waiting' on a rock festival. it appeared that
david allan coe, kris kristofferson and the grand
funk railroad was playing' in town that day and
their airplane had got hijacked somewhere over
chicago, illinois. so it turned out that the
people with short hair started throwing' rocks at
the people that had long hair.