I am NOT looking for pirated music; show me where to put my money and I will. But I can't find an actual recording of this song anywhere. I'm not even sure it was ever on an actual album. I know it exists, because the lyrics are here. The video is of a different song, sadly, and all the results I have found googling trace back to that same site with the wrong video. Spotify doesn't have it. Google Music doesn't have it.
So reddit, show me the magic of the hive mind!
It was recorded in 1968: https://youtu.be/KwuJUm524AM
Here is what I know:
In 1932 via the film "Curly Top," Shirley Temple released a highly-distributed song in the United States called "Animal Crackers in My Soup": https://youtu.be/wNwFXLcrsbc
Regarding the snack Animal Crackers, they were first imported to the United States from Britain towards 1900. National Biscuit Company, now Nabisco, in 1902 was one of the first to really start distributing them. The theme/branding of the original animal crackers is highly related to that of Barnum and Bailey Circus, which would have been considered wildly popular at the time.
> In 1948, the company changed the product name to its current designation of "Barnum's Animals Crackers". In 1958, production methods changed to improve the cookies' visual details.
That's all I've got!
Lyrics:
Oh, eat your animal crackers
'Cause my mother told me so long ago
"If you eat your animal crackers
The children in Europe won't starve anymore"
Ha ha hahaha hahaha
Oh, once I went on a diet
A carbohydrate diet ain't nice
'Cause you can't eat animal crackers
So, I'm gonna stay a fatty for all of my life
Ha ha hahaha hahahaha
But some people think that fatties are nice, yeah
I love eating icecream
Chocolate, vanilla and butter pecan
But I best love animal crackers
'Cause I love helping my fellow man
Yeah, I really do
Did you ever hear of Alice's restaurant?
I eat at Alice's restaurant year after year
She makes an animal cracker pizza, ha
And she gives animal crackers out free with the beer
Oh, let's give Alice a great big cheer
She knows the age of the animal cracker is here
Ah, animal crackers are in this year!
Ha ha hahaha
Oh, lalalalala lala lala
Other anthemic folk songs, I guess?
