While watching Disney’s *Robin Hood *the other day, I noticed that the characters were constantly exclaiming “oodalolly!” It was used in the context of an exciting or surprising discovery. Also, it is part of the lyrics of the movie’s theme song:
Robin Hood and Little John were walking through the forest, oodalolly, odalolly, golly what a day!
Is this something that was a common phrase before or during the time of this movie (1973)? All of the hits when I have searched for it seem to be references to Disney’s Robin Hood. I’m sort of suspecting that the phrase was just made up for the movie, but I was wondering if anyone else had heard this phrase in other contexts.