Reply #21: Yup. "The Singing Woodsman" ... early 50s.

[TahitiNut]

"With a ranger's hat and shovel and a pair of dungarees,
You will find him in the forest always sniffin' at the breeze
People stop and pay attention when he tells them to beware,
'Cause everybody knows that he's the fire preventin' bear.

Smokey the Bear, Smokey the Bear, prowlin' and agrowlin'
and a sniffin' the air,
He can find a fire before it starts to flame,
What's why they call him Smokey, that's how he got his name."



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