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Dumbo Pink Elephants On Paradesong music by Oliver Wallace, lyrics by Ned Washington, sung by The Sportsmen Quartet, clip from Dumbo (1941) movie. Watch video clip |
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Song lyricsLook out! Look out! Pink elephants on parade Here they come! Hippety hoppety They're here and there Pink elephants everywhere Look out! Look out! They're walking around the bed On their head Clippety cloppety Arrayed in braid Pink elephants on parade What'll I do? What'll I do? What an unusual view I can stand the sight of worms And look at microscopic germs But technicolor Is really too much for me I am not the type to faint When things are odd or things are quaint But seeing things you know that ain't Can certainly give you an awful fright What a sight! Chase 'em away! Chase 'em away! I'm afraid, need your aid Pink elephants on parade Pink elephants! Pink elephants! |
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NotesIn the sequence when the two elephants are ice skating against a black background, the powerful camera lights were causing the background to appear gray on screen. To rectify this, the animators replaced the black painted background with a large piece of black velvet which did not reflect any light and gave the desired effect. As a leitmotif in Disney's creation, 36 years later, the theme of paradoxical dreams and elephants of childhood imagination is developed in the song Heffalumps and Woozles from the adaptation of A. A. Milne's books in 22nd Disney Animated Classic The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977), this time in the dream of a willy nilly silly old bear. The song is included in Dumbo Movie Songs Bringing the original Dumbo story to Walt Disney's attention is credited to Kay Kamen (1892-1949). Kamen was Disney's head of merchandise licensing and a prototype of the Roll-A-Book storytelling device was displayed to him. He was not much interested in the device but thought the story had potential. Watch songs from movie original soundtrack |
