*Ahhhhh…
Killed a b’ar!
No, not hyar!
Over thar!
I didn’t really do it
I was drunk
Ahhhhh…
Killed a b’ar…*
Where is this from? I think it was a mountain man in the 1970s mini-series Centennial, but I’m not sure.
And you liked it?
Just something I remembered when I was watching a gold mining show, and the miners killed a bear.
The song appeared in the movie “Crooked Sky” starring Richard Boone and Sterart Petersen.
It might have actually been around a great deal longer, but Boone, who plays a drunken trapper, sings it throughout the movie.
Actually the movie was “Against a Crooked Sky” IIRC. I saw it when I was a kid but I can’t honestly remember how it ended. Anyone else remember?
That’s it! I don’t remember how it ended.
I just got that. :smack:
And I only opened the thread because I wanted to post the same joke–just 16 months too late!
I remember it as the ad jingle for the disastrously unsuccessful Killed-a-Bear Workshop.
To show you how fate works, my daughter bought me one of those budget DVD’s last week that has a dozen or so western movies on it. Most are clearly 2nd rate. “Against a Crooked Sky” was on it, and after watching it and hearing that song, I wondered if indeed that was really an established song. That’s when I bumped into the post.
If you’re interested, the movie ends when the boy’s sister comes riding back home. She is accompanied by an older Indian maiden who is taking care of the sister’s newborn baby son. Her husband, the chief to be, is watching from a distance. The final scene is the brother and sister, their mother and father, Indian maiden (holding newborn baby) ll coming together and weeping joyously and Indian husband (who is mounted on a horse observing from a distance) . The viewer is left to wonder about how all of this is reconciled, but hey, it’s the movies!
Glad I could help.
I watched it because it starred Richard Boube, who was the star of the Heck Ramsey mysteries. I have been singing that song for almost 40 years!