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   Tom to thedutchmiester@gmail.com   
   Re: Waltzing with Bears: songwriter, rec   
   07 May 17 18:06:17   
   
   From: treid3@centurylink.net   
      
   thedutchmiester@gmail.com wrote in   
   news:6ca71498-5648-4875-8103-bd91950b7148@googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Monday, October 21, 1991 at 12:22:42 PM UTC-4, Paul Mailman wrote:   
   >> Some years ago I learned a song called "Waltzing with Bears," a cute   
   >> song about dear Uncle Walter who has a hobby of going out into the   
   >> woods and dancing with the bears, much to the distress of his family.   
   >>  I learned it through a combination of hearing other people sing it,   
   >> and a songbook from the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston which,   
   >> alas, did not attribute the song.   
   >>   
   >> A friend who has heard me sing the song has asked where she could get   
   >> a recording of it.  (She didn't ask to record one of my performances.   
   >>  ).  Can any netters out there identify the songwriter   
   >> and/or recordings of the song?  (I have heard two recorded versions,   
   >> one male and one female.)   
   >>   
   >> Lyrics/chords available on request.  If I can find out who wrote it,   
   >> I'll send it in to the lyric server.   
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   >   
   > Brownsmead Flats out of  Astoria, Oregon  do  wonderful versions of   
   > this  song  studio- it is on  "Rain" live it is  on  "Live at the   
   > Liberty  Tavern"   
   >   
      
   The one I have is Priscilla Herdman on her 1988 Stardreamer album.  A   
   real fine version.   
      
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