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04 August 2009
Any bunnies sing theAustrian Yodeler song when they were a kid?→[More:] This is pretty much the version I learned at camp, but I've discovered another that's more like "Found a Peanut".
Haha! Yeah! I almost posted here once because I wanted to try to get people to make up more verses / sound effects for that song. It's one of those ones you can extend pretty much indefinitely if you're so inclined.
I don't recall that one. I read the other day that Men At Work are being sued by a music publisher for allegedly stealing a riff from a song I remember well from Brownies and Guides - Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree. It was a song sung as a round, where one group starts, then the next group starts a line later and so on, and the melody all harmonises.
I remember being at Guide Camp once when I was about 11 or 12 and I started singing it, then everyone joined in and we all sang it as we cleared up after lunch. We changed the verse to say "David sits in the old oak tree" (He was the 8-year-old son of our guide leader and was at camp with us.) A (rare) happy memory from my childhood.