The Huntin’s Over For Tonight

[Chorus]
Charlie hollered:
"Come on boys, get out of here, I've just seen an awful sight!"
Put out the fire, and call in the dogs
The huntin's over for tonight"

[Verse 1]
One bright night, way last fall
Charlie and a coupla the friends
Come by the house and say get your dogs
Let's go a-huntin' again

Get my dogs, well I reckon so
I called out Bob and Bill
We'll build a fire at the edge of the woods
They'll strike at the bottom of the hill

We was warmin' our hands, and tellin' tales
When heck broke loose in the holler
Ole Bob's got a coon as big as a mule
I'll bet anybody a dollar

When I got to the tree, I shined a light
It was awful dark up there
When the light hit the limb where the coon oughta be
There sat a big Grizzly Bear

[Chorus]
Charlie hollered:
"Come on boys, get out of here, I've just seen an awful sight!"
Put out the fire, and call in the dogs
The huntin's over for tonight"

[Verse 2]
Old Bob and Bill treed one night
As we sat by the fire a-talkin'
Charlie said boys thats sure a coon
C'mon lets get to walkin'

The dogs were treed in a big white oak
When I got there with a lantern
Charlie come along with his old shotgun
It must've been as a cannon

He spied the coon and powdered his gun
I guess it was heavy loaded
With a roar of the old gun belched a flame
To tell you the truth it exploded

The barrel went right
The stock went left
It tore the woods asunder
It kicked old Charlie in the middle of the creek
With a boom that was worse than thunder

[Chorus]
Charlie hollered:
"Come on boys, get out of here, this gun's not a-shootin' right!"
Put out the fire, and call in the dogs
The huntin's over for tonight"

[Verse 3]
We were sittin' one night in Johnson's wood
Whittlin' with our knives
Tellin' tales and braggin' some
We got to discussin' our wives

"I tell me wife just what to do!"
Charlie said with pride
"I wear the britches around my house!"
Of course, we knew he lied

"My wife she knows that I'm the boss"
A noise in the leaves back there
Made us all turn around there was Charlie's wife
Some matches tearin' her hair

She grabbed a sapling and made one "Warp!"
And off went Charlie's ear
We'd broke and run with Charlie in the lead
She was worse than a Grizzly Bear

[Chorus]
Charlie hollered:
"Come on boys, get out of here, there's gonna be an awful fight!"
Put out the fire, and call in the dogs
The huntin's over for tonight
Put out the fire, and call in the dogs
The huntin's over for tonight"