A somewhat different version of the previous lyrics. I have boldfaced the differences:


OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN
As recorded by Cab Calloway in this Betty Boop cartoon on YouTube.

[This song is preceded by a chorus from "Minnie the Moocher"]
[Beginning at about 2:13:]

With his long white beard and a crooked stare,
[He] tramps along with the folks all scared,
With a tickle in his eye he passes them by,
The old man of the mountain.

For he wears long hair and his feet are bare.
They say he's mad as a grizzly bear.
His cares are none for he fears no one,
The old man of the mountain.

He talks with the bears when he's lonely,
Sleeps with the sky for a tent.
And he'll eat you up when he's hungry,
And it wouldn't cost him a red cent.

And he'll live as long as an old oak tree
He'll eat up fools like you and me.
Oh, I often sigh and jump and cry
At the old man of the mountain.

Old man of the mountain.

[In the cartoon, another Cab Calloway song follows: "You Gotta Ho-De-Ho (To Get Along with Me)"]