The Other Day I Met a Bear
This is an Echo Song where a line is sung by the leader and the group repeats the same line. They do this for all the lines of the verse. Then the leader and the group sing the verse together.
Repeat the pattern for each verse.
The Other Day I Met a Bear
Echo Song
The other day
I met a bear
A great big bear
A way out there.
He looked at me
I looked at him
He sized up me
I sized up him.
He said to me
Why don't you run
I see you don't
Have any gun.
And so I ran
Away from there
And right behind
Me was that bear.
Ahead of me
I saw a tree
A great, big tree
Oh, golly gee!
The lowest branch
Was ten feet up
I'd had to jump
And trust my luck!
And so I jumped
Into the air
And missed that branch
A way up there.
Now don't you fret
And don't you frown
I caught that branch
On the way back down.
That's all there is
There is no more
Until I meet
That bear once more.
The end, the end,
The end, the end,
The end, the end,
The end, the end.
This time it really is the end!
Notes
Music composed by Carey Morgan and Lee David.
In some versions of this song, the bear is wearing tennis shoes in the first verse, as follows...
The other day,
I met a bear,
In tennis shoes,
A dandy pair.
This song is also known as "Bear in Tennis Shoes" and "The Bear in the Forest".
Comments
The music was composed by Carey Morgan and Lee David in 1919 to accompany the lyrics to "Sipping Cider Through a Straw".
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