A popular song from 1913
Words by Art M. Swanstrom
Music by Leo Bennet
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In a forest deep when the shadows creep
Over animal land
Every tiger there leaves his tiger lair
Joins an animal band
Tiny bugs and ants, great bit Elephants
With their trumpets to play
Oh! they all come there when the night is fair
For the Woodland Cabaret
Chorus:
When they start that Woodland Cabaret
With a flash and a dash and a crash
Lightning bugs turn midnight into day
With a light that is bright in the night
Tango tiger teddy bear, Turkey trotting here and there
Big breeze plays in the big trees
A hundred haunting harmonies
How they love to hear that hoot-owl hoo
Hear the sound on the ground all around
Whippoorwill will whistle still for you
In his way he is gay night and day
Robin Red Breast grabs his mate
Swings her ’round, oh, Babe it’s great
When they start that Woodland Cabaret
- When the moon is high in the jungle sky
Watch that baby bear slide
Weeping willow trees laughing in the breeze
At that rattlesnake glide
It is there you learn how that worm will turn
Watch him dip and then sway
And the wildcat’s wild, he must mind his child
At the Woodland Cabaret