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Animal Fair (song)

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Lyrics
Recordings
References

Animal Fair is a traditional folk song and children's song. As early as 1898, it is attested as being sung by American sailors.^[1] The song was attested in Life magazine in 1941 as a cadence of soft shoe tap dancing.^[2]

Lyrics

The version attested in 1898 has the following lyrics:^[1]

I went to the animal fair,

The birds and the beasts were there,

The old baboon by the light of the moon

Was combing his auburn hair

The monkey fell out of his bunk

And fell on the elephant's trunk

The elephant sneezed and fell on his knees

And that was the end of the monkey monkey monkey monk...

Other versions substituted "the old baboon" (1915)^[3] for "the little baboon", while modern recordings use "the big baboon". The Barney and Captain Kangaroo versions changed other lyrics as well.

Recordings

Sung in Barney & Friends episodes The Dentist Makes Me Smile (1993) and Barney's Super Singing Circus (2000).
Captain Kangaroo with Mitch Miller orchestra & The Sandpipers (1958)^[4]
Sung by Richard Dreyfuss's character Moses Wine to his sons in the film The Big Fix (1978)^[5]
Sung in Kidsongs and also used as Elmyra's theme in Tiny Toon Adventures.
Sung by Woody Woodpecker in The Dizzy Acrobat.

References

1. ^¹{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c34fAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA98&ots=1bYbfI6UC4&pg=PA98|title=The Chicago record's war stories|publisher=|accessdate=1 January 2016}}
2. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZE0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77 Lincoln Barnett, "Fred Astaire", Life magazine, August 25, 1941]
3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=uug1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA172 Frank Hobart Cheley, G. Cornelius Baker, Camp and outing activities]
4. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fr5nhxcL88 "Animal Fair" from Captain Kangaroo's Treasure House of Best-Loved Songs]
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077233/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1|title=The Big Fix (1978)|author=bmacv|date=6 October 1978|work=IMDb|accessdate=1 January 2016}}

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