Time-sick son of a grizzly bear

Did you see the grizzly bear
roving over the floodplain?
Richard Henry Dana did.
I read about it and it stuck in my brain.
Did you see the river flow
clear down to Baja Mexico?
John Wesley Powell most certainly did.
I read about it when I was a kid.
Time-sick son of a grizzly bear.
I can't fit in anywhere.
I'm a time-sick son of a grizzly bear.
Were you at old Monterey
in Joaquin Murrieta's day?
Adobe huts in the cypress grove
is where the rich men now build their homes.
Time-sick son of a grizzly bear.
Can't seem to find myself anywhere.
I'm a time-sick son of a grizzly bear.