Hey folks. Know that circus tune. The one that goes doo-doo-doobee-doobee-doo-doo-doooooo-ooo, etc. Im trying to find the origin on it. The burning question.. does it have any lyrics?

I don't recognise the tune.
Could you hum a few bars! :)


' Parents and children can also listen to the music from
Buddy Brush and the Painted Circus
on an audio CD player. These happy circus tunes are a combination of historical circus music tracks performed and donated by the US-based Heritage Circus Band as well as original musical compositions.'
[From macworld.com 2002 article, no longer online]

or try here

MMD Archives: Recordings of Gavioli Organ at Circus World
... The first CD has some great new music, that was arranged by Tom Meijer for it, of very typical music played in the early years of the circus: tunes you will ...
[From foxtail.com 2002 article, no longer online]

I think the tune you mean is called Entry of the Gladiators.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0

It is called 'Entry of the Gladiators: Thunder and Blazes' a march composed by
Julius Fucik in 1897. There are no lyrics.

Thank yo very much Webmaster. With all those doobee doobee doos in the question I cannot get Frank Sinatra's 'Strangers in the Night' out of my head now

Entry of the Gladiators may not have any officical lyrics, but there are many that can be sung to it. Most would violate the 'no profanity' clause, but here is a bit of one - from memory - that won't:

I'm glad, glad, very very glad,
I'm glad I'm a gladiator.
Ancient Rome, thats my home,
Fried fish shop near the old Hippodrome.
I'm glad, glad, very very glad,
From my helmet to my toes.
My old dad was a Roman glad,
And he left me his Roman nose!

Like SOTHC now can't get get Sinatra out of the mind - so just to annoy you with a secondary question - dum dum dum dummy doo wah!

Fosse4 - Instantly recognizable as 'Only The Lonely' - Yes?

How about 'da da da da, da-da-da da dee da da daaa'? (Euro hit about a certain day of the week).... ?

Now you have me humming Match of the Day Norwich

No Da da da da da da dada da da dah - Has to be The Lone Ranger (william Tell Overture)

lol, thanks all for your contributions :)

And a special hip-hip horray for McGruff who somehow manages to put up with you all! {;)}