Honey -- honey Honey in my mouth and honey in my hair Honey for the bees and honey (honey) honey for the bears We'd all go down to grandfather's farm To the tree where the honeybee flew We'd get out of bed in the middle of the night And walk in the morning dew You gotta get up when the owl goes to bed If you want to get the jump on a bee So granddaddy'd lead us on through the night To the base of the honeybee tree My brother climbed to the top of the tree
To the branch where the bee hive hung But with a snap and crack the old branch broke And my brother came tumbling down Well the bee hive hit the ground like an egg And the hive broke open wide My brother took off like a slingshot stone And the bees all chased behind Well my brother was fast as the wind that day Chased by all of the bees Me and my grandpa ate all we could At the base of the honey-bee tree