escargot
Disciple of Marduk
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Yup, it sounds... menacing, doesn't it?
I'm thinking of the version played on the BBC all through my childhood, the 1932 recording by Henry Hall.
If you go down in the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise.
If you go down in the woods today
You'd better go in disguise.
and
If you go down in the woods today
You'd better not go alone.
It's lovely down in the woods today
But safer to stay at home.
I used to listen hard to the lyrics to find out exactly what the threat was. Concluded that while the truth was too horrible to describe in a little kids' song, it was obvious that the bears, scarily animated by some nefarious means, would react to being watched with natural bearlike behaviour, turning on any observers and eating them. :shock:
I may only have been a child, but I was right and Timothy Treadwell was wrong.
I'm thinking of the version played on the BBC all through my childhood, the 1932 recording by Henry Hall.
If you go down in the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise.
If you go down in the woods today
You'd better go in disguise.
and
If you go down in the woods today
You'd better not go alone.
It's lovely down in the woods today
But safer to stay at home.
I used to listen hard to the lyrics to find out exactly what the threat was. Concluded that while the truth was too horrible to describe in a little kids' song, it was obvious that the bears, scarily animated by some nefarious means, would react to being watched with natural bearlike behaviour, turning on any observers and eating them. :shock:
I may only have been a child, but I was right and Timothy Treadwell was wrong.