The lowest branch Was ten feet up I'd have to jump And trust my luck!
This is the end There ain't no more Until I meet That bear once more[1] Some versions include a verse before the last stanza: I heard a crack, And then a crunch.
Some versions also include the following lines after the last stanza: And so I met That bear once more, Now he’s a rug On my bedroom floor.
This version ends with: The moral of, This story is, Don't talk to bears, In tennis shoes.
The nearest branch was ten feet up I'd have to jump and chance to luck
And so I jumped into the lake and lost the bear but found a snake
One hundred feet is pretty tall but a sharp rock it broke my fall
Then they turned back Oh, happy day... a great white shark scared them away
The shark rushed in its jaws were wide I saw its teeth and deep inside
"The Other Day I Met a Bear" is one of the songs sung by Barney the dinosaur on the 1990 children's video Campfire Sing-along except it was shortened to 4 stanzas instead of 10.
[3] In Japanese, the song is known as "Mori no Kuma-san" (森のくまさん or 森の熊さん), with lyrics written by Yoshihiro Baba.