Crosby, Bing - Swinging On A Star Lyrics
Would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a mule?
Kicks up at anything he hears
His back is brawny but his brain is weak
He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak
And by the way, if you hate to go to school
You may grow up to be a mule
Or would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a pig?
A pig is an animal with dirt on his face
His shoes are a terrible disgrace
He has no manners when he eats his food
He's fat and lazy and extremely rude
But if you don't care a feather or a fig
You may grow up to be a pig
Or would you like to swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar
And be better off than you are
Or would you rather be a fish?
A fish won't do anything, but swim in a brook
He can't write his name or read a book
To fool the people is his only thought
And though he's slippery, he still gets caught
But then if that sort of life is what you wish
You may grow up to be a fish
A new kind of jumped-up slippery fish
And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo
Every day you meet quite a few
So, you see it's all up to you
You can be better than you are
You could be swingin' on a star
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Crosby, Bing Swinging On A Star Comments
Reminds me of my childhood
This low-key sound racist to black folks an I fw bing Crosby but not this one it's too detailed into making fun of a mule which blacks an Mexicans have been called before in all honesty but I won't lie it is catchy but nahh I'm good fam 💯💯
Bing Crosby is a great singer
This shit slams
This song was my childhood 😂 watching Little Lulu 🌟
love this song
*The Mule is a mutant with the brain of ten men; he messed up old Hari Seldon's plan...*
The backing vocals are complicated. This style of backing vocals is a lost art. Bing is as fantastic as usual.
Thumbs up if you’re 40k in student debt and are desperately trying to offset your expenses with 2 low paying jobs
Thank you, Fallout 4
Who even is this douchebag?
Who are you?
What did he do to you??
Bing Crosby is singing straight fact with this song. My parents always told me the same like he did, that if you just lazy to do anything in your life, you may grow up like an animal. This is the only song that teach me about life.
Me gusta esta canción divertida que era una de las favoritas de mi difunto Padre. Es gracioso lo que dice si a uno le gustaría ser una mula, un cerdo o un pez. Y la letra es bien pronunciada y fácil de entender. La voz de Bing Crosby es excelente.
Cute and amusing old time song. Heard it at karaoke night, the other night, fir the first time, since my Dad played it on an old RCA 78, when I was a little kid.
Surprised this has never been sampled in hip hop before, I think it would kill 😃
*listens while walking in power armor*
I was born in 1995 and love his music. Please come back to life, Bing Crosby! I was born way too late. Big fan from Germany! ❤
I like this humourous song. The lyrics are something that gives me chuckles. It is sure funny and very well sung both by the lead singer and his chorus.
Who is this Justin Bieber kid?....
Where's the talent compared to Bing?
Bruh, but no one even listens to Justin Bieber anymore tho. It's all about Billie E, a billion rapper with the world "lil" in their name, heading dragons and stuff, no one cares about Justin Beiber anymore, his spotlight faded away back in 2017, I believe.
Bunny ball ball ⚾️⚾️
I sing this in choir
All the monkeys are not in the zoo - my mother used to say!
I came here after the movie paterson.
Anyone else singing this song in Quire because I have to
God I want this to be the announcement trailer music for fallout 5, please bethesda do us a solid
Featuring the Williams Brothers quartet, (Andy Williams and his 3 brothers) Don, Bob and Dick.
How this sort of music eventually transmogrified into punk rock by the Sex Pistols is truly amazing
"And by the way if you hate to go to school, you may grow up to a mule"Good funny line.
5 August 1944 (Saturday) - "Swinging on a Star" by Bing Crosby went to #1 on the Billboard singles charts. The William Brothers were singing about Hitler and how the soldiers should keep their powder dry. WWII brought about so many atrocities including : The Cowra breakout occurred when over 1,100 Japanese prisoners of war attempted to escape from a POW camp near Cowra in New South Wales, Australia. Four Australian soldiers and 231 Japanese were killed, but hundreds managed to escape although they would all be recaptured within ten days.
The four-day Wola massacre began when German troops and collaborationist forces started systematically killing between 40,000 and 50,000 people in the Wola district of Warsaw during the Uprising. Including Anne Frank. More than 300 Jewish refugees perished when the Turkish motor schooner Mefküre was sunk in the Black Sea by shellfire from the Soviet submarine Shch-215. This was also the day my Father was born.
fallout music !
My Nan used to sing this to me to encourage me to try hard in school, God rest her soul.
I love the stars
Another nice and funny song I used to hear in a record performed by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians. The song makes me laugh when I hear the lyrics. " a pig is an animal with dirt in his face his shoes are a terrible disgrace". Really funny for me at least.
#ELONMUSK
Spooky & Sue
Game Grumps brought me here again....
daddys pipe
first Homestuck now Legion hMMM
here from legion :)
Little Lulu brought me here
This song would be black listed by mules, pigs, monkey's and fish in the year 2019. Thank God I'm swinging on a star.
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Who here is living in 2019 and loves the decades before the 70s
(In music)
Particularly the '30s & '40s. II look at today's culture and my only reaction is, :"Man! Am I living in the wrong world!"
@SheridanJazz totally agreed brother
Me. Love the music then.
Yes I am
1969 Downwards,The Bestest.
Chuck E Cheese Brought me here
My parents played this record for us when we were little. They played all the crooners, and more for us! 😊
Beware ! The song is true ! Everyone always tell me what a ass i am ;J(
My mom sang this to me when I was a kid, but I hadn't thought about it in years. Then I watched 'Bells of St. Mary' with my parents one night, where Bing sings it with the kids. I had an intense flashback, and now it gets stuck in my head regularly.
Big Dee Erwin and little Eva did a version in the 60s. Never keep a good tune down.
Me and my wife in LA love swinging on a star 😉
My dad sings this song to my brother for his bedtime
Great harmony and arrangement!
I was introduced to this song at summer camp; while the Mule verse was kept, the other two were changed to represent things associated with the camp itself.
I'm gonna grow up to be a fish, I can feel it.
Graduated high school and have no idea what I wanna do with my life.
But, you could be better than you are. You could be swinging on a star
either him or frank sinatra has the most sexiest voice in existence
Am I the only one came here because I remembered this song when I heard that this is the year of the pig in China? Happy New Year any Chinese who stop by!
This was my party piece with my best friend Tina who's past away brings me back to great friends and times. Missing you Tina X RIP
I really want to torture someone to this song
My father worked on a dairy farm in the early 40's next to the Crosby farm in Spokane, Washington. He knew Bing and Bob and always said how nice they were.
Good ole days.
This song sounds like they're singing about Trump.
or unicorn' farts
One of my favorite songs in fallout 76
pretty sure they removed it
I just was thinking about bringing moonbeams home in a jar and forgot the rest of the song was connected to words that are somewhat familiar, meaning that I've both heard the song and saw the lyrics, at one time. I'm nowhere near eighty, so am somewhat surprised that oldsters hadn't heard the song since the 1940s, but then, I grew up in a small town and we didn't have television, just a record player and 45 singles and 33 LPs, and even a few brittle 78s,
Fallout 76
I think alot of people need to listen to this. both left and right wing
So this is what al bundy was singing about . Nice,
Lol Joe Coker was born on this year
Bing, the original crooner! To think my generation was blessed with Bing Crosby Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Vic Damone, Johnny Mathis, The mills brothers, Julius La Rosa anyone remember him 😎 We had it real lucky!
Fallout 76 :D
I got here from Little luluXD
Who's here cuz of fallout 76
Fallout 76 brought me here
When I was in a parochial grade school, it was customary for each grade to put on a class performance, with the entire production being sort of a "Follies". One year, my class performed this song (I was probably 7 or 8 yrs. old). I've never forgotten it. I do miss the days when singers could actually sing.
little lulu, anyone?
From one of my favourite bing movies “going my way”. The BBC aired it as a tribute when Bing died. Talk about crying!
Very popular in UK
Paterson brought me here too
The Line (From movie Paterson)
There’s an old song
my grandfather used to sing
that has the question,
“Or would you rather be a fish?”
In the same song
is the same question
but with a mule and a pig,
but the one I hear sometimes
in my head is the fish one.
Just that one line.
Would you rather be a fish?
As if the rest of the song
didn’t have to be there.
I've always wondered... it's easy to understand what is being described with the Mule and the Pig. But the fish....is that, basically, turning to a life of small time crime??
The Williams Brothers!
I dedicate this to Obama Bidden
I sang this song for chorus
Little lulu anyone
I love this song. Brings back memories of my Mom singing. Thank you.
Does anyone remember 80s show where they play this song in show intro
Out of this world
Oliver & Lenny
My dad would always sing this to me as a kid when he pushed me on the swing.
dude i fuckin love this BANGER
Legion 😉 Aubrey Plaza & Jemaine Clement scene
Here from Legion
Hello from 2018
Legion brought me here.
Legion s2
For an excellent yé-yé French cover from 1964, listen to À Toi De Choisir, by Richard Anthony.
I've sung this with my Grandad since I was a little girl— such a beautiful song!!! Adore it <3
DoctorRandomerCam brought me here.
Good old songs
i watched a cartoon about a girl go went fishing instead of going to school but she did after this song played <3 i love this <333 i watched it as a kid ;D
Sugibru little Lulu
Bradley Bruner yeah
This guy used to beat his kids ...
WAR MASTER WiLL no sense harping about it now. He's dead but his music lives on