If you go down in the woods today .......

                                  ............ you're sure of a big surprise.

If you go down in the woods today you'd better go in disguise,

For every bear that ever there was will gather there for certain

Because today's the day that Teddy Bears have their picnic.

Music by  John W Bratton

First recorded 1908

First vocal version recorded 1932 

by Henry Hall and His  Orchestra

Clearly someone has got the dates mixed up, 

because this was the solitary bear in the woods at Shaugh Bridge, 

on the bank of the River Plym, as it tumbles down the Plym Valley on its way to Plymouth and the sea.