{"id":2012,"date":"2010-04-14T23:07:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T04:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2010-04-14T23:07:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T04:07:56","slug":"going-out-to-bears-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"Going out to bears everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

this poem set to music by Natalie Merchant<\/a> was just the thing tonight:<\/p>\n

The Dancing Bear*
\nAlbert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937)<\/p>\n

Oh, it\u2019s fiddle-de-dum and fiddle-de-dee,
\nThe dancing bear ran away with me;
\nFor the organ-grinder he came to town
\nWith a jolly old bear in a coat of brown.
\nAnd the funny old chap joined hands with me,
\nWhile I cut a caper and so did he.
\nThen \u2019twas fiddle-de-dum and fiddle-de-dee,
\nI looked at him, and he winked at me,
\nAnd I whispered a word in his shaggy ear,
\nAnd I said, \u201cI will go with you, my dear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then the dancing bear he smiled and said,
\nWell, he didn\u2019t say much, but he nodded his head,
\nAs the organ-grinder began to play
\n\u201cOver the hills and far away.\u201d
\nWith a fiddle-de-dum and a fiddle-de-dee;
\nOh, I looked at him and he winked at me,
\nAnd my heart was light and the day was fair,
\nAnd away I went with the dancing bear.<\/p>\n

Oh, \u2019tis fiddle-de-dum and fiddle-de-dee,
\nThe dancing bear came back with me;
\nFor the sugar-plum trees were stripped and bare,
\nAnd we couldn\u2019t find cookies anywhere.
\nAnd the solemn old fellow he sighed and said,
\nWell, he didn\u2019t say much, but he shook his head,
\nWhile I looked at him and he blinked at me
\nTill I shed a tear and so did he;
\nAnd both of us thought of our supper that lay
\nOver the hills and far away.
\nThen the dancing bear he took my hand,
\nAnd we hurried away through the twilight land;
\nAnd \u2019twas fiddle-de-dum and fiddle-de-dee
\nWhen the dancing bear came back with me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Not to be confused with the one of my contra dancing memory<\/a> or our favorite about uncle walter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

this poem set to music by Natalie Merchant was just the thing tonight: The Dancing Bear* Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) Oh, it\u2019s fiddle-de-dum and fiddle-de-dee, The dancing bear ran away with me; For the organ-grinder he came to town With … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-ws","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}