# I Killed A Bear (song) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902 "2011-01-17T04:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902/1 "2011-01-17T04:00:53Z")
\*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. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902/2 "2011-01-17T04:18:07Z")
And you liked it? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902/3 "2011-01-17T04:19:17Z")
Just something I remembered when I was watching a gold mining show, and the miners killed a bear. ---
**Author:** ![docmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@docmann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/docmann)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902/4 "2012-04-15T22:35:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902/5 "2012-04-15T22:44:27Z")
> [@docmann](#): > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902/6 "2012-04-15T22:53:00Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > 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. > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > And you liked it? I just got that. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902/7 "2012-04-15T23:12:45Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I just got that. :smack: And I only opened the thread because I wanted to post the same joke–just 16 months too late! ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902/8 "2012-04-15T23:43:54Z")
I remember it as the ad jingle for the disastrously unsuccessful Killed-a-Bear Workshop. ---
**Author:** ![docmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@docmann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/docmann)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902/9 "2012-04-16T00:26:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Midspec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Midspec](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Midspec)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-killed-a-bear-song/567902/10 "2017-01-29T02:28:18Z")
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!