Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - House At Pooh Corner Lyrics

Who listens to this song to try to remember what it was like to be a kid?

懐かしい!
中学生のとき、流行っていました。

Love this song

You too? Hello there...

Juanita Campos hello. Nice to meet you.

There is nothing like vinyl records. I still have my collection of 400. The nice thing is, you can still purchase vinyl. Beats the hell out CDs.

Puff The Magic Dragon for the NEXT, Hippie Generation...

The Folkie/Beats despised it!

This is the Best group to sing this song. They should come back to Greeley for the Greeley Stamped

I put this song in the same category as Lobo's " Me and You and a dog named Boo". Early seventies Americana Music.

Lyric question.... in this original version the lyric is "But I wandered much further today than I should, and I can't find my way to the Three-Acre-Wood".... Later versions of the song by Loggins & Messina substituted "...and I can't seem to find my way back to the wood..."

Here's the question... I believe that in the Pooh novels, the only "woods" that were mentioned was the "Hundred-Acre-Wood" and that there was never any reference to the "Three-Acre-Wood" that the Dirt Band sings....

Where did this "Three-Acre-Wood" come from and why did the Dirt Band not change the lyrics after the Loggins & Messina version came out with the "correct" lyrics?

Musical bliss... The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Wah-wah guitar pedal on a Pooh song, you've got to be kidding me? And the lead vocals on this are totally flat, soulless, Loggins and Messina blows this garbage away.

Stop hating. This is Loggins original. He later recorded it with Messina and then added the final verse and renamed it Return to Pooh corner.

"When "House at Pooh Corner" was played for him by its songwriter, Kenny Loggins, Jimmy Ibbotson wanted to record it. When Ibbotson was in second grade he was struck with polio. While he was at home that year he read a lot of A. A. Milne's Winnie The Pooh stories, so the characters had warm place in his heart."

Loggins & Messina version of this song "BLOWS"!!!! I don't care if that WIMP wrote it or not!!! The Wah-Pedal and the instrumentation on this version makes the song. Besides the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band smokes anything those two Wimpy Clowns ever did!!!

wow. People fighting over this sweet song. I don't think Winnie the Pooh would like that at all.

The Jefferson Airplane did a great cover of this song as well. Wouldn't expect it from a psychodelic acid band from the mid 60's but their version is one of the best, imho of course.

@Guapo viejo Their song was "House on Pooneil Corner"

I always thought this was the best version. No offense to Loggins and Messina.

Cord with this Ted.

"And what is good Phadreus and what is not? Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?"

Jeff Hanna and Nitty Gritty does the the besrt version of this song no guestions

Kg Hall it was Jimmy. Ibotson on lead voccals , back then he sang alot of the lead parts . Now it is jeff hanna since jimmy quit !

@Thomas Garrett They had similar voices.I compare to Pat and Tom from The Dobbie Brothers

love this version, the whole album is like a time machine! hey to the band!!!!

I got this album in a trade with another recruit at Fort Leonard Wood Mo. in Feb. 1970 as we were leaving A.I.T. And I still have it!

I like the version on Dirt Silver & Gold better....

this is great but i think loggins and messina are better singers but nitty gritty better band so its close

Kenny Loggins wrote this in 1966 when he was 17 and graduating from high school. The House at Pooh Corner was the second of the Pooh books and it ends with a farewell party for Christopher organized by the denizens of the 100-acre wood, and I think the tie in with his own feelings at the time that he was leaving a special, protected space, because the implication is that Christopher has outgrown his days with Pooh. The song was recorded first by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band before Loggins began his recording career, that's why most of us of my generation remember this version as the original one.

By far my favorite recording through is the modified version Loggins did in the mid-1990s. It has a very simply, sweet arrangement dominated by an acoustic guitar and has a third verse where the now-adult singer says that some things have followed him throughout his life, that he was watching his son sleeping with his bear at his side, and as he was leaving he heard the bear whisper "boy welcome home." And then the chorus repeats but this time saying he finally made it back to the house at poor corner by one.

Perhaps it moved me so deeply because I hadn't heard or thought about the song for decades and when I heard this new version, we had a preschool daughter and newborn boy. Their mother is English and had grown up with Pooh, as had her own mother, and she had brought back from England her own winnie the pooh teddy bear that she gave to our daughter.

Since that day more than two decades ago, I've listened to the song hundreds of times, and it never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Both this recording And the original later one by Loggins and Messina now seem incomplete, with too much musical decoration and accompaniment trying to make up for the part that hadn't been written yet.

I guess not many of those who first heard the song as they were coming of age had my experience of rediscovering it in a new version when they had small children, as my own weren't born until I was in my 40s, but few songs have ever moved me as much as this one never fails to do.

You can hear it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnvpa3Hj2Ak

This is the first time I've ever heard this version. I like Kenny's version better

I live one block from where Kenny Loggins lived... and went to high school.. in Everett, Washington. I wish I would have grown up here but I grew up in Kansas. I guess that is why I appreciate this place so much and have lived here for 30 years. I have many videos on my page... about living here and the place around here. The realization that I live across from Clark Park, where I am sure he spent time... is pretty cool. I wonder if he has visited here unrecognized, maybe even by me... and shit.. I even have a studio upstairs... he could do an album for free if he wanted...

always loved this version of a great song that takes you back to childhood days when life was more simple and innocent.

I remember being on a school bus many years ago in Wyoming, hearing this song on the radio as we made our way to school. Good song.

Me too. Radio on the school bus helped pass the time as the bus went on it's country route picking up kids for school.

Radio on the bus? In my day...

Okay, Kenny Loggins wrote it but the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band sang it - their version is what I consider the original.

It might be better, (I don't think it is, I'm not even a Loggins fan, my father use to play me the loggins version when I was very very young so I really like it) but Loggins wrote it, so Loggins' is by definition the original.

@I am A potato original by definition is who first recorded it.

Kenny Loggins did write it but the Dirt Band released it as a single in the early summer of '71. It only got to #53 on Billboard Hot 100. Too bad! Great song, no matter whose version you like.

@q98rt710 Should have been a MUCH bigger hit in the year that I graduated from high school.

One of my favorite albums!

This is the original song of "House at Pooh Corner." The version by Loggins and Messina does not sound the same to me. I had this song on a 45 back in the 70's. The best singers!!

Actually the best version of this song is the "return to Pooh corner " when Kenny Loggins added a third verse and recorded it with Amy Grant

@Carlton Knox Hhmm.....don't think I've heard that, I'll have to download it. I do think, though, that Nitty Gritty having first the unique name of the band, the vocals and harmonies, etc., and everything else they had made them just 'fit'. I prefer their version, as well. And Gritty's songs like Bo Jangles, Colorado Christmas (Colorado girl, of course! I remember looking outside my Aunt's house in S. California, which I ran to thinking the grass was SURELY greener somewhere, like there, and my little boy and I had just arrived a few days before. It was snowing so hard I couldn't get up the hill to get out of a sleepy little town in Colorado, and now all I saw were palm trees and it was December and they had this thing called a 'Santa Ana' going on and it was 90 degrees! And it was almost Christmas. I cried and cried and cried. Look at the grass in your own yard and don't leave your heart for one you don't know. I pained for several years from that until I stuck my feet on Colorado soil once again. Took a huge breath and could TASTE the air! Now I wait each year for the raindeer and a Quiet Christmas Morning, in the Colorado Snow....

I still have my 45 rpm I purchased for $1.29 at Woolworth's when it came out. I played it a few days ago, pops and scratches...I was about 13 when this song came out and just listening to it.....brings back memories....and takes me back.....

Yep- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

@Carlton Knox According to Billboard, L & M did not release this as a single. TNGDB did from their album "Uncle Charlie & his dog Teddy" They also took one more single from the album, "Some of Shelly's Blues" written by Mike Nesmith. That didn't do too good either, hitting #64 in the fall of '71. Both songs are still great. They both got good airplay in my area.

Always thought this was such a better version that the Loggins and Messina version

My mother threw out my copy of the 45RPM because: 1. the band looked like "dirty hippies", and 2. the line "got a honey jar stuck on his nose" had to be a reference to sex. She never knew I fished it out of the trash and played it secretly when she wasn't around, lol.

my mother did the same thing... we were not allowed to have any 'rock n roll' records.. at one point she tossed out my record player and about 25 ..45's...

What a good note! You made my day! Gotta have loved those 45's, scratched, warped, but they still played! Love it.................ps--sounds like perhaps your mom had a little of a 'clean dirty mind'. I'm so not makin the connection! lol Oh......the good old songs...........

I never thought of it before but I will never hear the "honey jar" line again without thinking "cunnilingus". Go mom!

@mondellomusic Lady Marmalade. 😁

find a different Mom

When my grandson was 4 yo he thought they were singing about him. He thought Ibby was saying Robinson. I told this story to Ibby a few years ago, and he thought it was great; and it was too, b/c it made my grandson smile.

ibby's such a great guy!

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS!!! I HAVE FINALLY FOUND IT! Hello nostalgia! :D

Reika15ful Yeah, I wondered where this was and FINALLY I found it! I also like Mr. Bojangles!

Years?  ever hear of Google?

I still have the original RP in it's jacket and wouldn't give it up for anything. I've found a modern day "Nitty Gritty Dirt Band" for lack of better words. They have the number one album currently on Billboard charts. Check them out, it's NEEDTOBREATHE and just their style reminds me of them, all with harmonica, banjo and the little mandolin. I can't stop listening to.them. Their Grammy nomination for hit single is called Brother, but you have to watch their live recordings, that's where they do a little picking n grinning!☺

I used to sing this version to my daughters at bedtime when they were babies and toddlers.

Ron Zrebski I sing this to my son (now 4) and my dad played this song for me when I was little. My dad also played "When it's Gone" for me and I think of it and my mountain home every time I get bogged down.

Logins and Messina is good, since Kenny wrote it, but this one is my favorite.

This is a really good version of this

Can't get enough of this song had the album and single but they were burned up when my house burned last month still have the
Memories in my head thank god for you tube now I can listen anytime I want

@Rhonda Hancock God speed for a smooth recovery(SMILE)!!!! And YES!... the memories will always be with us!

Thank you that s nice I'm sure will feel better soon I'm strong

Great song I have a son name Christopher robin after this song thanks for the memories

I have a son named Eeyore and a daughter named Piglet

Wonderful song! Thank you.

I do have this 1971 song on a scratchy 45 rpm.

Very nice song from 1971, It only peaked @ # 53 & I think it should of done better like hitting the top 10.

A song I sung to my son and daughter in turn as a lullaby.

On this day in 1920 {August 21st} Christopher Robin Milne was born in London, England , the son Alan Alexander Milne & Dorothy Selincourt Milne
He would be the main character in two books written by his father, 'Winnie-the-Pooh' (1926) & 'The House at Pooh Corner' (1928)
Fifty-one years after Christopher's birth the song "House On Pooh Corner" by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band would enter Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart on April 24th, 1971; eventually it peaked at #53 & spent 13 weeks on the Top 100

Good stuff.

Thanks, Neil, for uploading "House at Pooh Corner" !
Rgds