Betty drove the semi, she pulled up to the pump  

I thought I wanted a Coca-Cola and I started out on the jump  

She said, "Hold it Dave, come quick, there's something you got to see  

That man had got a dancing bear tied up to that old tree" 贝蒂驱车半，她拉至泵

  我以为我想要的是可口可乐，我开始了在跳

I said, "Dance, dance, Dakota dance all around the country store" 她说， “拿着它戴夫，快上来，有你有看到的东西

Me and sweet Betty ain't never seen 这名男子有一个跳舞的熊绑到一棵古树“

A bear that could dance before  

Well, it's one step, two steps, three steps four 我说：“舞，舞，舞达科全国各地的商店”

A bottle of soda and he'll dance some more 我和甜甜贝蒂不是没见过

Dance, dance Dakota dance all around the country store 可能以前跳舞的熊

  嗯，这是一步，两步，三步4

Well, these hippies walked up to the cage 一瓶汽水，他会跳舞的一些

Givin' pills to that ole bear 舞蹈，舞蹈在全国各地卖场达科他州的舞蹈

I don't know what it was they was giving to him  

It had him pulling out his hair 那么，这些嬉皮士走到笼子

I tried to keep time with the music, 得到安宁丸的OLE熊

Lord with the beat on my tambourine 我不知道这是什么，他们正在给他

Gave him some wine from a mason jar and we all began to sing 这让他拔出他的头发

  我试图保持的时间与音乐，

[Recitation:] 上帝与我的手鼓的节拍

Well, I went out to Los Angeles, California and I saw a semi-truck along the side of the road. It said 'Dakota the Dancing Bear' on the side of it now they charged you 50 cents to watch this bear dance around a truck. So I turned to Arlo and I said "Arlo, we ought to get down off these motorcycles and walk over there and see if that's the same bear that Betty told US about when she was driving the semi-truck for us back in Nashville, Tennessee." So we got down off our motorcycles and we walked over there eaten' our pickles. Now there was four or five hundred thousand of these hippies freaks standing' around waiting' on a ROCK festival. It appeared that David Allan Coe, Kris Kristofferson and the Grand FUNK Railroad was playin' in town that day and their airplane had got hijacked somewhere over Chicago, Illinois. So it turned out that the people with short hair started throwin' rocks at the people that had long hair. 给了他一些酒从玻璃瓶，大家都开始唱歌