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One version of the lyrics, [2] for two groups of singers, is Group 1: boom-da, boom-da, boom-da (repeated to chorus) Group 2: Sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda ret set set Sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda ret set set All (chorus): Ah do ray oh, ah do ray boomday oh Ah do ray boomday ret set set Ah say pa say oh. Refrain starting at Group 2
"The Other Day I Met a Bear" is one of the songs sung by Barney the dinosaur on the 1990 children's video Campfire Sing-along except it was shortened to 4 stanzas instead of 10. On Barney & Friends, the tune was used for The Exercise Song. The 2007 album For the Kids Three! includes a version of the song by Barenaked Ladies. [3]
Campfire Songs is one of only three Animal Collective-related releases (the others being 2007's Strawberry Jam and 2012's Centipede Hz) to include a booklet with full lyrics. The original Catsup Plate version of the album went out of print in 2008, and was reissued by Paw Tracks Records on January 26, 2010. [10]
The Bear Went Over the Mountain" is a campfire song sung to the tune of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, [1] which, in turn, got its melody from the French tune Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre (Marlborough is going to war). The public domain lyrics are of unknown origin. Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his 1961 album 101 Gang Songs.
The piece became a standard campfire song in Scouting and summer camps and enjoyed broader popularity during the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. In American politics , the song title gave rise to the phrase " sing Kumbaya ", denoting unrealistic, excessively optimistic attempts at compromise .
Camp songs or campfire songs are a category of folk music traditionally sung around a campfire for entertainment. Since the advent of summer camp as an activity for children, these songs have been identified with children's songs, although they may originate from earlier traditions of songs popular with adults.
1902 sheet music by Blenkhorn and Entwisle in a Pentecostal Hymn Book. Keep on the Sunny Side (Roud 10082, also known as Keep on the Sunny Side of Life, is a popular American song originally written in 1899 by Ada Blenkhorn (1858–1927) with music by J. Howard Entwisle (1866–1903). The song was popularized in a 1928 recording by the Carter ...
Some of these may be sung as children songs, [21] [22] and many have become common campfire song for organizations such as the Boy Scouts. [23] [24] [25] These campfire versions are occasionally accompanied by interactive movements, [26] such as sitting down or standing up every time a word that begins with the letter "b" is sung. [24]