What tune is this?
October 13, 2023 1:39 PM   Subscribe

I want to use this melody but don't know what song it is. Any ideas? Thanks so much!

I know it's a familiar tune but can't figure it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SNrooig0E
posted by hrhcc to Media & Arts (7 answers total)
 
I learned it in camp as,
“ The other day
I met a bear
Up in the woods
A way up there
The other day I met a bear, up in the woods a way up there.”

The tale goes on to recount the story of our anonymous narrator who catches the eyes of said ursine, runs from it, is followed, jumps to catch a tree branch, misses it, but manges a remarkable and life-saving grab as gravity threatens a quick and unforgiving impact with ground and bear.
posted by Silvery Fish at 1:45 PM on October 13, 2023 [3 favorites]




It's very similar to the scouting song I know as The Other Day I Met a Bear. Wikipedia entry on the song describes it as similar to Princess Pat.
posted by mskyle at 1:47 PM on October 13, 2023


Best answer: And originally, Sipping Cider Through a Straw.

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posted by zamboni at 1:51 PM on October 13, 2023 [1 favorite]


I have to laugh, because while it is "The Other Day I Met a Bear," my first thought was "Adon Olam," because that's one of the many melody's my childhood synagogue used behind "Adon Olam" in the 1970s. (It's common for temples to use "popular" melodies to back different versions of some hymns sung in Hebrew.)
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 1:54 PM on October 13, 2023 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Sipping Cider Through a Straw was it! Thanks so much!!
posted by hrhcc at 2:06 PM on October 13, 2023


And I remember it from a 60s commercial for Hoffman's soda as "Sipping Hoffman's Through A Straw".
posted by DanSachs at 7:20 PM on October 13, 2023


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