Tune Req: Ugly Bug Ball

Subject: Tune Req: Uly Bug Ball
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 07:57 AM

Help ! a friend has asked me to find the sheet music for the old Burl Ives hit ' Ugly Bug Ball ' it only seems to be available in expensive songbooks, that is unless anyone here has it or knows where to download it for free.

Thanks, eric

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Uly Bug Ball
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 07:58 AM

Feck, that should say UGLY.

eric

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Uly Bug Ball
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 08:18 AM

Feck, that should say f**k       ;-)

Wasn't it featured in one of those Disney-&-Hayley-Mills films back in the 60s? Summer Magic?

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ugly Bug Ball
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 08:32 AM

To answer my own question, yes, it was. Googlings reveal:

"Ugly Bug Ball" is a song sung by Burl Ives for the 1963 Disney film Summer Magic. The song was written by Robert and Richard Sherman.

Context within the story: Osh Poppum (Burl Ives) sings the song to a young boy (Jimmy Mathers).

Trivia: Walt Disney didn't like the song when he first heard it. Bob Sherman explained to Disney that to bugs, other bugs weren't ugly, even if they looked ugly to us, beauty being in the eye of the beholder. Disney liked the idea and the song went on to become one of the most popular songs of the year.

Lyrics:

Once a lonely caterpillar sat and cried
To a sympathetic beetle by his side
I've got nobody to hug
I'm such an ug-i-ly bug

Then a spider and a dragonfly replied
If you're serious and want to win a bride
Come along with us, to the glorious annual ugly bug ball

Come on let's crawl (gotta crawl gotta crawl)
To the ugly bug ball (to the ball to the ball)
And a happy time we'll have there, one and all and the ugly bug ball

While the crickets click their cricky melodies
All the ants were fancy dancing with the fleas
Then up from under the ground
The worms came squirming around
Oh they danced until their legs were nearly lame
Every little crawling creature you could name
Everyone was glad
What a time they hade
They were so happy they came

Come on let's crawl (gotta crawl gotta crawl)
To the ugly bug ball (to the ball to the ball)
And a happy time we'll have there, one and all and the ugly bug ball

The our caterpillar saw a pretty queen
She was beautiful and yellow black and green
He said would you care to dance
Their dancing lead to romance
Then she sat upon his caterpillar knee
And he gave his caterpillar queen a squeeze
Soon they'll honeymoon
Build a big cocoon
Thanks to the ugly bug ball

Come on let's crawl (gotta crawl gotta crawl)
To the ugly bug ball (to the ball to the ball)
And a happy time we'll have there, one and all and the ugly bug ball

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ugly Bug Ball
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 08:36 AM

Google page of downloads here, though I don't know how many of them are free:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ugly+bug+ball+download&btnG=Search&meta=

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Ugly Bug Ball
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 29 Dec 07 - 08:57 AM

Thanks Bonnie, I've tried thet already and can't find a free one, it's not that I object to paying, I just don't want to buy a lot of stuff I don't want just to get one song.

eric