When we were kids (I’ll guess around 1969?) we used to go to the local theater to watch movies. Before the movie started the theater would play music. I don’t know if it was real music or something owned by the chain. Anyway, one song stuck in our heads and we used to sing it a lot. The words (as I remember them - and I feel that this is pretty accurate) were as follows:
"Now Louis Pasteur got it in his head
to drink hot milk before going to bed
He boiled his milk and to his surprise
He found his milk was pasteurized
Sir A Dickadee
Sir A Dickadee"
My google-fu failed me. Does it ring any bells for anyone?
ETA: looking at the lyrics now I’m wondering if it was “serendipity”.
I’ll give the melody that I remember. I’ll omit note lengths, but this should be enough for you to see if it matches.
A C' A G F
Se-ren-dip-i-ty!
G C' G F E
Se-ren-dip-i-ty!
G C E G G A C G
something something that Lady Luck presents
E G G G G G F E
The art of hap-py ac-ci-dents
G F# F E F E F E D
Se-ren-dip-i-dip-i-dip-i-ty
G F# F E F E F E D
Se-ren-dip-i-dip-i-dip-i-ty
I haven’t thought about that song in years but my brother and I used to sing that incessantly when we were kids. We had the Shaggy Dog album and it was on the flip side with the Flubber song. As I remember, it goes like this:
Sere-En-Dipi-Dipi-Dipity
Sere-En-Dipi-Dipi-Dipity
Ser-en-Dipity, the art of happy accidents.
Across the sea Columbus went
to find a route to the Orient.
While trying to prove the world was round
America is what he found!
…
It looks to me that what is being referred to is the song “Serendipity” by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, as mentioned in this page of a book:
As I said in a previous post, it’s the song on the flip side of a record that I link to a picture of in a previous post. The Sherman brothers wrote a lot of songs for Disney. They apparently wrote a song with the words given by EulessDave in a previous post. Apparently they wrote the two songs “Flubber” and “Serendipity” for Fred MacMurray to sing on the Disney TV program. Apparently Disney asked them to do this in order to advertise the Disney movie The Absent Minded Professor which was just being released at the same time. They also put out a record of those two songs. Those songs weren’t in the movie itself. I can’t find anything online with someone singing the song or giving the words of the song.
Two things: First, we try to respect copyrights here. A brief excerpt is OK, but not the entire lyrics of a song. Accordingly, I have trimmed EulessDave’s post.
Second, terentii, the rest of us really don’t need to know about cheerleaders turning you on, especially in a thread that has nothing whatsoever to do with said cheerleaders.
Two things: First, we try to respect copyrights here. A brief excerpt is OK, but not the entire lyrics of a song. Accordingly, I have trimmed EulessDave’s post.
Second, terentii, the rest of us really don’t need to know about cheerleaders turning you on, especially in a thread that has nothing whatsoever to do with said cheerleaders.
