The Bear

The Bear is the third track off 1999 album The Tennessee Fire.

Lyrics from CD booklet

Length of album version: 4:39
Written by: Jim James
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It has that perfect Motown intro. That drumbeat has probably been used on hundreds of songs, yet it's still one of my favorite intros to any song we've done. We've done some pretty rockin' versions of it live, too...
- Tom Blankenship
(JamBase interview, 2010)