Bob Dylan Bear Mountain Picnic Lyrics

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