Tom T. Hall - Legend of the Lady Bear lyrics

Gather round me boys and
Fill your coffee cups
I'll tell you all a story
While you drive them trucks
A story bout a girl who
Joined the state patrol
The legend of the Lady Bear is how it goes
She married some young trucker she
Was in her teens
And like all newly weds they
Had their hopes and dreams
And one night in a snowstorm
So the story went
She lost her loving husband in an accident
They say she sat and cried for
Him a year or more
And all she did was think of
Him and walk the floor
She'd lie there in her bed
At night alone and cold
Until one day she joined


The highway state patrol
Well they say she has a CB
And she's on the air
And she goes by the handle of the Lady Bear
She never gives a ticket and
She works at night
All she does is tell the story of her life
I've heard some truckers say there
Ain't no Lady Bear
And others say she don't work
When the weather's fair
But when the weather's bad she's
On the air all night begging us to slow down
Till the weather's right
Well you know I love this story
Well it could be true
If you're ever in a snowstorm
Tell you what to do
If you should hear the Lady
Bear on your radio
Well tell her I wrote this
Song and said hello