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songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 7:48pm

a while ago there was a thread about songs involving food, and I really enjoyed seeing all the sings people came up with.. so I feel like starting another thread-- songs involving animals

heres a few to get started:

Something Bad- Wicked
Today4u- Rent
Dumb Dog- Annie

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 7:52pm

Jellicle Cats!
I Know Things Now- Into the Woods (sort of... it's about the wolF)

Updated On: 9/9/04 at 07:52 PM

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 7:59pm

Little Lamb from Gypsy

Snoopy, The Red Baron, and Suppertime from YAGMCB are all sung by a dog

Woodstock's Theme, Where Did That Little Dog Go?, The Big Bow-Wow from Snoopy!

Just about all the songs from The Lion King are about animal characters.

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 8:00pm

Don't Be the Bunny-Urinetown

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 8:05pm

Anything from CATS

"Over the Moon", sort of-- it mentions a cow and a bulldog.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 8:06pm

Green Finch and Linnet Bird-SWEENEY TODD

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 9:18pm

Prayer for a Duck - Pippin

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 9:22pm

"Children, Children" from Bat Boy

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 9:23pm

"Another Dead Cow" from Bat Boy.

#10

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 9:57pm

Children of Eden, The Naming and the one with the snake.

"I'm a cuber, I'm a cuber, I'm a cuber, I'm a cuber, I'm a cuber, I'm a cuber. Please don't take me to the pickle farm."- Brak

#11

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:08pm

My Dog - Elegies

But I won't live alone in a house of regret.

#12

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:09pm

appology to a cow- BAt Boy

David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

#13

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:14pm

Talk to the Animals - Dr. Dolittle

Fugue for Tinhorns - Guys and Dolls

Meadowlark - The Baker's Wife

The Bear, The Tiger, The Hamster, and the Mole - Closer Than Ever

I Guess This Is Goodbye - Jack to Milky White in Into the Woods

Dainty June's song about "Caroline" the Cow - Gypsy

Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla - Schoolhouse Rock Live!

(Does anyone here know the show Two By Two?)

Here are several that are not really ABOUT animals but certainly use them as metaphors or mention them in passing:

This was a Real Nice CLAMbake - Carousel

Surrey With the Fringe on the Top and Oh What a Beautiful Morning and Lonely Room -
Oklahoma! (chicks, ducks, geese, snowwhite horses, brown maverick, cattle, compares corn height to that of elephant's eye, field mouse)

The Egg - 1776 (compares the birth of a nation to the birth of an eagle)

Mama Will Provide - Once on This Island (frogs and birds)

Bushel and a Peck - Guys and Dolls (cows and chickens)

Corner of the Sky - Pippin (eagles belong where they can fly)

Museum Song - Barnum (armadillos, clever caterpillars)

50 Thousand Years Ago - Celebration (about evolution)

Kiss of the Spiderwoman - Kiss of the Spiderwoman

Tradition and Chaveleh - Fiddler on the Roof (horse! mule!, Little Bird)

I could go on and on and on with mentions...I have too much time on my hands, and this too much fun...

Updated On: 9/9/04 at 10:14 PM

#14

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:15pm

My fav animal song is MEADOWLARK! ("Baker's Wife") And there's one from Maltby & Shires "Closer than Ever" Called "The Bear, The Tiger, The Hamster and "The Mole", about women who don't need men, very funny. LOVE Green Finch. I know there are more than I'm remebring...this will most probably be an edited post.
aw dancinfan i thought i was the first to put meadowlark.

Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on." - from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Updated On: 9/9/04 at 10:15 PM

#15

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/9/04 at 10:19pm

wow dancinfan you really did some research there

thanks everyone I enjoy all of your answers

#16

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/10/04 at 12:52am

The title song from TWO BY TWO (music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Martin Charnin) is about animals having sex. It's like a bbiblcal version of "Birds do it, bees do it..."

#17

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/10/04 at 1:13am

Be a lion - The Wiz
Hello little girl - Into the Woods
Beauty and the beast - Beauty and the Beast
if i only had the nerve - wizard of oz
circle of life - lion king
Hand for the hog - Big River
The Lonely Goatherd - sound of music
Over The Moon - Rent

Updated On: 9/10/04 at 01:13 AM

#18

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/10/04 at 1:31am

"Lion Tamer" from Magic Show.

#19

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/10/04 at 2:07am

Anything from CATS
Little Bird, Little Bird - Man of La Mancha
Don't Be the Bunny - Urinetown
If You Could See Her - Cabaret (not about a gorilla, but doesn't the Emcee refer to one?)
Little Lamb - Gypsy
Something Bad - Wicked
Cooties - Hairspray

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

#20

re: songs about animals

Posted: 9/10/04 at 3:30am

"It's like a bbiblcal version of "Birds do it, bees do it...""

...even educated fleas do it.

Cole Porter = well known for his lyrical animal references

It's a stretch, but "Four Black Dragons" from Pacific Overtures, uses an animal metaphor.
"The Day Off" from Sunday, has George talking-singing a dialogue between two dogs.
The Frogs is all about...well...frogs.
"If I Had A Fine White Horse" from Secret Garden.
Seussical is full of animal characters, so just about all the songs deal with animals in one way or another.
"Girls And Dogs" from Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris.
"The Bulls," from the same show.
"Pegasus" from Guettel's Myths & Dreams/Saturn Returns.

So yeah...this is definitely not an umined topic in musical theatre. :)

Updated On: 9/10/04 at 03:30 AM

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