# Help me identify Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies ditty **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-looney-tunes-merrie-melodies-ditty/212109 "2003-11-08T20:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-looney-tunes-merrie-melodies-ditty/212109/1 "2003-11-08T20:38:55Z")
I seem to half remember a song sung by a Warner Brother’s cartoon character. I am fairly certain it is not one of their “regulars”, meaning not Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny, but maybe a character that appeared in only one or two shorts. The song as best I remember goes like this: “Huck-a-roe and a (something) And a so on so on so forth… Huck-a-roe and a (something) and a so on so forth!” The something in parenthesis I can’t remember at all. I think it is three syllables and it may be a nonsense word (like Huckaroe). Vague enough for you? Anyone remember the song, the character or the situation? It may not necessarily be Warner Brothers, but I watched more of their cartoons than any other company’s. This would have come out before the early 1970s BTW. I’m old. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-looney-tunes-merrie-melodies-ditty/212109/2 "2003-11-08T21:57:08Z")
[This](http://www.lyricsdepot.com/freddy-martin/hut-sut-song.html) might answer your question. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-looney-tunes-merrie-melodies-ditty/212109/3 "2003-11-08T22:00:04Z")
Oh, and I think the song is most memorably used in Bob Clampett’s [\*\*Horton Hatches the Egg](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034870/)\*\* ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-looney-tunes-merrie-melodies-ditty/212109/4 "2003-11-08T22:01:14Z")
Oh, and yes, _HHtE_ is indeed a WB/Merrie Melodies 'toon. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-looney-tunes-merrie-melodies-ditty/212109/5 "2003-11-08T22:29:01Z")
I’ll be damned. I’ve only ever seen the Horton thing maybe once, though, if that. Was the song or some variant thereof used anywhere else? The one I’m thinking of is definitely based on the lyrics you linked, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-looney-tunes-merrie-melodies-ditty/212109/6 "2003-11-08T22:59:32Z")
The only other film references I found were the following live action films where the song can be heard: _From Here to Eternity, A Christmas Story_ and _San Antonio Rose_ (supposedly the song’s debut, released a year before _HHtE_). No other cartoons that I found. And Horton’s version of the song is a bastardized one (which I suspect is part of the “joke”, since the song, itself a spoof, was quite a hit at the time). ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-looney-tunes-merrie-melodies-ditty/212109/7 "2003-11-08T23:24:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ArchiveGuy \* > \*\*… > > And Horton’s version of the song is a bastardized one (which I suspect is part of the “joke”, since the song, itself a spoof, was quite a hit at the time). \*\* That’s probably it then. I’m really impressed. Did you just happen to remember the name of the song, or did you know the real lyrics?