Paul Bunyan  (1960) - (Animation , Short, Comedy, Family, Musical) - video Dailymotion

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6 mins | AAnimation , Short, Comedy, Family, Musical | Episode aired 1960   Tall tales of the giant lumberjack are depicted by narration alternating with folk songs.  Director: Phil Robinson  Stars: Ralph Camargo, Murray Phillips

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00:00Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

00:29oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:32Oh mighty Paul Bunyan, he lived long ago.

00:39His strength and his goodness helped America grow.

00:47When Paul Bunyan was just one month old, he placed his baby hands around a young maple tree and tore it out of the ground roots and all.

00:55and all. When he was only 18, he was already 25 feet tall and weighed 800 pounds, all bone

01:06and muscle. He took one look at the deep forests of the West and found his job, to chop down the

01:17trees to make room for cities, farms, and people.

01:20Come all you sons of freedom that run the forest stream. Come all you roving lumberjacks and listen

01:29to my theme. We'll cross the roaring rivers where the mighty waters flow, and we'll roam the wild

01:39woods over and once more a lumbering go, and once more a lumbering go, and once more a lumbering go.

01:48We'll roam the wild woods over and once more a lumbering go.

01:56Paul Bunyan was so tall, he covered miles with every step. Why one day he started walking

02:05across the country. He walked across Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and then stepped into the state of

02:11Wisconsin. There he met an old farmer. His head bowed down with grief. The farmer told Paul his

02:18story. I'm going down the road feeling bad. Oh my crops have failed and now I'm feeling sad. My

02:29family is hungry and we have no place to live. I'm going down the road feeling bad. And with five

02:40blows of his axe, Paul Bunyan cleared a space of ten miles for a brand new farm. Thank you Paul

02:47Bunyan, cried the farmer. You're welcome, said Paul, as he took an extra big step and walked

02:52from Wisconsin into Montana. Yes, Paul Bunyan did some remarkable things all right. As a soldier in

03:00the Revolutionary War, he faced a whole line of cannon. As the Hessian soldiers fired at him, he

03:06picked up a tree trunk and batted their cannonballs right back, like baseballs. Once when pirates were

03:14roaming the east coast of the United States, he splashed his foot in the ocean and started a wave

03:20that sank the whole pirate Navy. Oh and I almost forgot, he also built the Rocky Mountains. Paul

03:27grabbed a hill with either hand with a ring-ting-a-tim-ring-a-tid-not-nay and set them down so they

03:33would stand in a row. He built the Rockies up so high, the topmost peak held up the sky with a

03:42ring-ting-a-tim-ring-a-tid-not-nay. Then came the biggest job of his life. The country had no inland

03:52waterway large enough for big ships carrying heavy freight, so Paul Bunyan began to dig.

03:59Soon he had scooped out hundreds of miles of earth. Now he wanted rain, so he clapped his hands

04:11together and down poured the rain until the holes in the earth were filled with the Great Lakes.

04:22Now one of the Great Lakes was named Lake Erie and the town of Buffalo was on its shore. It took

04:33just another day's work for Paul Bunyan to dig the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany and the

04:40inland waterway was completed. In his later years with his big jobs done, Paul Bunyan went back to

04:47one of his favorite hobbies, mountain making. But this was a mountain for children, a rock candy

04:57mountain. Oh the buzzing of the bees in the popcorn trees near the chocolate ice cream fountain where

05:08the jelly beans grow and the milkshakes blow down the big rock candy mountain. Oh the children eat

05:15their fill of the whipped cream hill and no one's ever counting. There's so much to eat, life is one

05:23long treat on that big rock candy mountain. Did Paul Bunyan really live? Well, nobody knows for

05:34sure. Oh mighty Paul Bunyan, he lived long ago. His strength and his goodness helped America grow.

Paul Bunyan (1960) - (Animation , Short, Comedy, Family, Musical)

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