LyricMeaning

Larry the Polar Bear
Fred Small

In nineteen thirty-who at a zoo in Los Angeles
a polar bear named Larry performed for the crowd,
they'd cheer aloud
He'd go slipping and sliding, jumping and diving
The people would laugh. They took his photograph.
Larry was born at the zoo
He never knew as he grew older
anything colder
than Los Angeles
which is warmer than Alaska
where Larry's parents were born.
CHORUS:
Larry the polar bear
He'd never harm a hair on a child's head
He'd do tricks for them
at the Los Angeles zoo,
as he'd been taught to by his keeper Fran.
Fran would teach him new tricks
A funny pose
scratching his nose
He knew there'd be a fish at the end,
Fran was his friend.
One day she said Larry, you'll be in the movies
with real movie stars and a few simple tricks
and lots of fish
to be filmed on location in Alaska.
and so they rehearsed for Larry's big scene,
He's supposed to be mean
and growl at a woman who was rescued by a man who scared him away
It was stupid
but fun to do.
The director would frown
and jump up and down
kind of like the chimps at the zoo.
CHORUS
At last came the day of the trip
They put Larry in a crate
twelve foot by eight
and he sailed aboard a steamship
The journey was long
and boring
Fran would visit
she'd talk to him
and bring him his favorite fish
then the noise and the rumbling stopped
and they lowered him down
set the crate on the frozen ground
and opened it
Fran said Larry, we're here
It's time for your tricks.
And Larry appeared
He looked out at the gray Bering Sea
He squinted and puzzled
put his nose to the wind
and the scent of the seal made him tremble
He smelled the fox in its lair
and the weasel and hare
felt lichen and snow 'neath his paws,
and he looked at the tundra and ice,
looked at the loon in the sky and he ran
slowly at first
kind of lumbering
he ran
gathering speed
gathering memories from within
old and dim
growing stronger
to run and to swim,
to dive and to float,
the cold at his throat
But warm inside
'neath the fur and hide
Ocean and ice all around him
He ran
He ran
He ran
and he swam away.


  Purchase "Larry the Polar Bear"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Larry the Polar Bear" Video   Play Spotify "Larry the Polar Bear" Song   View Wikipedia "Larry the Polar Bear" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Fred Small Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Larry the Polar Bear"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Fred Small

  Death in Disguise   Dig a Hole in the Ground, or, How to Prosper Durin...   Everything Possible   Face at the Window   Fifty-nine Cents   Gonna Get A Grant   Gravity   Jaguar   Letter From May Alice Jeffers   Light In The Hall   Loves Gonna Carry Us   Mistaken Identity   No Limit   No More Vietnams   Peace Is   Simple Living   Talking Wheelchair Blues   The Dancing Light   The Distance   The Last Time I Had Autumn   Three Mile Island   Too Many People   Warlords

Related Songs

  Mary and Her Friends - Caspar Babypants  Eisbär (English - Polar Bear) - Oomph!  Eisbär[English] - Oomph!  I Wish I Was A Polar Bear - Ted & Francis  The Bird Mad Girl - The Cure  Birdmad Girl - Cure, The  Bird Mad Girl - Cure  Birdmad Girl - The Cure  Polar Bear - Therapy?  Otis was a polar bear...  She Like - Chief Keef  Polar Bear - Puscifer  Polar Bear - The Charlatans UK  Polar Bear - Kyle Andrews  Polar Bear - Queen  Polar Bear - Charlatans  Polar Bear - Ride  Frayed In Doubt - The Early November  Birdmad Girl [Studio Demo][#][*] - The Cure  Bird Mad Girl - The Cure  The Last Polar Bear - O'Hooley & Tidow  Bi-Polar Bear - Shihad  Polar Bear Summer - I Hate Myself  Bi-Polar Bear - Stone Temple Pilots  Bi - Polar Bear - Stone Temple Pilots  Bi-polar Bear - Wax Fang  Trouble - Polar Bear - Royce Da 5'9  Burning Man - Richard Thompson  V-Day 1998 - Khaela Maricich  I Am an Astronaut - Snow Patrol  roll over and die - Rambo  Jessica - Polar Bear  Snow - Polar Bear  Trouble - Polar Bear  The Yodeling Veternarian Of The Alps...  Postcard From Paris (i Wish You Were Here)...  The Love That I Crave (Strategy's Strata Club Remi...  Polar Bear [Instrumental] [Instrumental]...  I Am The Polar Bear - Across Five Aprils  Marooned - Wire  Peel Me a Grape - Blossom Dearie  Peel Me a Grape - Nancy Wilson  Panic - The Stills  The Mermaid Of Ontario - Shel Silverstein  American Child - John Denver  Oh How I Enjoy The Light - Katatonia  Waterfalls\/ [DJ Edit] - Paul McCartney  Waterfalls/ [DJ Edit] - Paul McCartney  Sweet Zoo - Barbra Streisand  Weirdo - Wiley  Bi Polar - Plies  Bipolar - Plies  Deion Sandals - Riff Raff  Dig Ophelia - Rasputina  Larry Boy Theme Song - Veggie Tales  Starlight Reverie - Edenbridge  Liebestraum - Chet Atkins  Liebestraum - Nat King Cole  O How I Enjoy The Light - Katatonia  Alaska - Leonardo's Bride  Talk to the Animals [From the Film doctor Doolitle...  Talk to the Animals - Anthony Newley  The Love That I Crave - The Blow  Talk to the Animals - Bing Crosby  The SUV Song - Veggie Tales  Waterfalls [Music Video] - Paul McCartney  Waterfalls - Paul McCartney  Where Have All The Staplers Gone - Veggie Tales  Where Have All The Staplers Gone? - Veggie Tales  The Return (Of The Velvet Bear) - Ruben Studdard  Love My Lips - Veggie Tales  Living Saints - Polar Bear Club  Dead Man - Polar Bear Club  Boxes - Polar Bear Club  One Hit Back - Polar Bear Club  Chasing Hamburg - Polar Bear Club  Light Of Local Eyes - Polar Bear Club  Old Fisher Burial Ground - Polar Bear Club  Song To Persona - Polar Bear Club  Take Me To The Town - Polar Bear Club  See The Wind - Polar Bear Club  Drifting Thing - Polar Bear Club  Screams In Caves - Polar Bear Club  Religion on the Radio - Polar Bear Club  Close Knit - Polar Bear Club  Pawner - Polar Bear Club  My Best Days - Polar Bear Club  Life Between the Lines - Polar Bear Club  3-4 Tango - Polar Bear Club  Bottled Wind - Polar Bear Club  Slow Roam - Polar Bear Club  Kneel on Nails - Polar Bear Club  To The Engravers - Polar Bear Club  Resent And Resistance - Polar Bear Club  Election Day - Polar Bear Club  Most Miserable Life - Polar Bear Club  Parked in the Parking lot of your heart...  Bet the Farm - Bye Polar Bear  Infamous Last Words - Bye Polar Bear  Half-life of a Hurricane - Bye Polar Bear  The Pariah - Bye Polar Bear  Heart at the Racetrack - Bye Polar Bear  Houses to Ashes - Bye Polar Bear  Who Owns You? - Bye Polar Bear  2.0 (iterations) - Bye Polar Bear  The Bug Parade - Polar Bear Club  Convinced I'm wrong - Polar Bear Club  As 'twere the mirror - Polar Bear Club  Heart attack at Thirty - Polar Bear Club  Eat dinner, Bury the Dog, and Run...  Hollow Place - Polar Bear Club  Tried - Polar Bear Club  Another night in the rock - Polar Bear Club  Our Ballads - Polar Bear Club  Adam O - Polar Bear Club  Burned out in a jar - Polar Bear Club  Overflow - Polar Bear Club  Let my dry eyes play - Polar Bear Club  Today Was Wednesday - Bye Polar Bear  900 Miles - Bye Polar Bear  Up - Bye Polar Bear  Badboy Goodbeat - Bye Polar Bear  Two Trains Passing in Broad Daylight...  Dry Like the Desert - Bye Polar Bear  Some Bandito - Bye Polar Bear  Sine Waves, Sighs and Serenades - Bye Polar Bear  The Pen Pretends - Bye Polar Bear  Tin Legs and Tin Mines - Midnight Oil  Fred Bear - Ted Nugent  Bus Bus - Amy Ray  The Hairbrush Song - Veggie Tales  I Love My Lips - Veggie Tales  Ice Police - Talkshow Boy  Song Of The Cebu - Veggie Tales  Eisbär - Oomph!  A Sky With No Stars - Canadians  Sailors Blue - Seabear  Myopia - Enter Shikari  Larry Smith - Skankin' Pickle  Dakota the Dancing Bear, Pt. 2 - David Allan Coe  Bipolar, Baby! - Forever the Sickest Kids  BBQ - Steven Seagal & Thunderbox  The Haibrush Song - Veggie Tales  Larry Bird - OJ Da Juiceman  Larry Bird - OJ Da Juiceman  Pizza Angel - Veggie Tales  Larry - Theatre Of Disco  Larry - Melvins  Larry - Mal Webb  Larry - Mac Miller  Larry - Buffalo Tom  Larry - Catie Curtis  Larry - Delusional Thomas  I Still Like Larry - Five Iron Frenzy  Ballad of Larry Bird - Vermont  Bi-Polar Disorder - Tina Turner  Sofa Back - FM  Pick Up the Phone - Brakes  Se\u00f1orita - Tenacious D  They Made Me Eat It - Frank Zappa  Thewater Buffalo Song - Veggie Tales  His High Silk Hat - Veggie Tales  Gus: The Polar Bear from Central Park...  Eisbär - Cadaverous Condition  Eisb\u00e4r - The Dresden Dolls  Polar - Bearclaw  Polar. - For King and Country  Polar - Zoe  Polar - Callejon  What the Fuck - Machine Gun Fellatio  Eisbaer (Grauzone Cover) - Cadaverous Condition  Eisbär 90210 (Grauzone Cover)...  Dear Diary - Gucci Mane  Larry Lightning - Art Paul Schlosser  Polar Bear [John Peel Session 20/03/90]...  The Hairbrush Song - Various Artists  Barbra Manatee - Veggie Tales  Larry's O - Devin Townsend  SEE THE LIGHT - Earth Wind And Fire  Worm Farm - Brenda Kay Winters  A Fondness For Crawling - Calla  Eisbär - Grauzone  The Water Buffalo Song - Veggie Tales  The Sun's Stopped Shining - Hannah Montana  Bad Blood - Ministry  Outro - Shad  Larry-Boy Song (From The Animated Series)...  Ron Balls - Sore Eros  Peel Me a Grape - Shirley Horn  Peel Me a Grape - Anita O'Day  Polar Bears - Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party  I Remember Larry - Weird Al Yankovic  The Polar Express - Tom Hanks  The Polar Express - Various Artists  When You're Loved Like You Are - Of Montreal  Hats Off To Larry - Del Shannon  When You're Loved Like You Are - Of Montreal  B.M.F - Rick Ross  Ironic - Bo Burnham  Landing Gear - Ani Difranco
  Please consider supporting this site by Clicking Here and Bookmarking whenever you search and shop Amazon. It costs you nothing but it supports us and gives us credit and we appreciate it greatly.