Alligator And The Bear Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]The highways that win[Eb]d
and [Cm]wander
across [G]this sovereign state of ours.
I guess I drove about all of them
as a trooper
with the highway patrol.
Of course, nowadays they call us bears.
Oh, well, I've [Eb]been called [G]worse.
I work Alligator [Eb]Alley in [G]the Everglades,
where the people live by
the fist and the blade.
I need a few that's mean as hell.
When they violate the law,
I put them in jail.
I finally caught an old boy
[F]I'd been looking [G]for a long time.
Name was Dudley.
Driving a worn -out Peterbilt
with bad brakes, slick tires,
overloaded.
Probably got lost dodging a scale.
Only thing that worked good on his rig
was his CB radio.
His CB [Ab]handle was Al[G]ligator,
and it's [Ab]easy to see how
he'd come by the name.
[G]He was all [E]mouth and [G]no ears.
I asked him how much
he'd had to drink,
and he says two beers.
I said, Alligator,
you couldn't have gotten
this [Ab]drunk on two beers.
He [G]looked at me with bloodshot eye[Ab]s
and said Dave was [G]quarks.[Ab][G][Ab]
[G]Abo[Ab]ut a wee[G]k later,
I saw the same old [Ab]truck
[G]parked on the shoulder of the highway,
and I figured he'd [Ab]gotten out of jail,
[G]headed hom[E]e, bro[G]ke down.
Being [Ab]the courteous trooper,
[G]I stopped off for assistance.
I walked up and shined my light in the cab.
He had this girl with [D]him
and [G]they was getting on with it.
And I said, Alligator,
you can't do that right out here
[G]on the side of the highway.
He said, Well, officer, it's my [G]wife.
[Ab]I said, Oh, I'm sorry,
I didn't know [G]that.[Ab]
He said, [G]Well, I didn't either
until you shined that flash[G]light in here.
Oh, boy.
[Ab]I te[G]ll you, he's been singing
six days on the road,
but if I have my way,
I'm gonna get the judge
[G]to change [Ab]his [G]tune

[Outro 1]
to six months in the county jail.
[G]