This song makes me weep. My sweet childhood! 40++ years ago I jammed to this record almost everyday. It's a pretty profound Smurf song. What a bittersweet journey life is...
These songs bring tears to my eyes, and send shivers down my spine. I can remember my mom playing this album over and over for us! Awww....to be a kid again! LOVE IT
I loved this song as a kid and sang it often. I'm 40 now and last year I lost my eldest and only sister to cancer. Hearing this song takes me back to the carefree days of my youth. Thank you for the memories.
I never had the album growing up but I remember seeing the commercial for it a bunch of times in the early eighties. I distinctly remember the part of the commercial where part of this song was played and it made want to run out and buy it. Didn’t get to hear the song until I was almost forty. Thanks CZcams.
I haven't heard this song in 30 years, and I didn't realize how deep the words are. Probably because we had it playing while we were working the old Atari 2600. It feels like 82-83 all over again
Thank you for posting this!! People can laugh if they want, but the Smurfs sang some pretty deep stuff. And their harmonies were tight!! ;) I grew up to become a singer/songwriter/composer/producer and I'm sure the Smurfs can be heard in there somewhere. Kicks the butt of kid's music today. I wish they'd do a re-release of all the old Smurf albums...the music was the best part about the Smurfs.
This WAS a terrible song to sing to children.It Still to this day makes me curl up into a ball and cry. WHY would they put this on a kids record and tell you everyone you love will die?
I cried too, and yet, now... My oldest child is a senior in HS. It won't be long until I'm riding again on the merry go round and I will be the smiling Grandparent. But I'm not rushing it, it just seems to turn fast on it's own.
I was 10 as well when my Dad got me this. Used to sit in my room every night and listen to the album over and over. I really dont think there was a song I didnt like on this album.
I memorized every song in this album for my sweet Cody. Remembers it well enough to sing it to my Grandson Zachary James Alderson Frost my oldest son Gabe's only son. The Goodnight Moon song. I would sing it to him every single night he stayed with us until his momma moved him to California. The entire album is wonderful thanks to whoever wrote, played instruments and conducted this. You're all fantastic! Many wonderful memories! God bless you all
I havent listened to this in 30 years and found an old cassette to play for my six year old. I never understood the message of this song until just now!! sniff sniff
I am so glad everyone else had a good childhood with this song...of course I did too or else I would't love this song.....I wish my brother didn't die at 6 but this was his song...and I often wonder why?
Oh my gosh! I haven't heard this song since I was ten years old and my worn out tape got destroyed. I just turned 40 so that's 30 years! I have never forgotten it though... It was poignant then and even more so now. Wow... Thank you for posting!
I bought this album for my kids when they were little. My son is almost 40 my daughter 38. I now sing these songs to my grandchildren; still have the album. ❤️❤️❤️
I absolutely love this song!!! I was 10 yrs old when my dad surprised me with this album and this was my favorite song! Thanx sooo much for posting! I can not find this song ANYwhere.
I'm 30 still hearing from record song itink this kind of music is real child songs not to days this songs like 80 70 90 wer more imagesnation in us then today we see the world difret
@TTLt106 It MADE me BAWL(but do you remember how they tricked you because the actual record was SO pretty)it wasn’t a regular record it had pictures on it.And All I could was we are going to die. (And my Dad was no better because he loved Cats in the cradle)
@TTLt106 But when you are like, 4 it’s kinda traumatic. I just remember loving the smurfs every Saturday morning and the record wasn’t normal (it had pictures of them on the vinyl.. a lot of pink....) and I want to say I got it as a birthday gift and my parents had this candle that you burned out each year until you were a “grown up” (I actually think that candle was thrown out THAT year, but it had like kindergarten, sweet 16 etc...) And you waited until the wax melted. My reaction was running to my grandparents saying your going to die, literally bawling...No cake nothing, I got in their bed , refused to leave (now that I’m an adult it’s kinda funny) IDK what I would do if my kids did that but I’m more careful, We are big Disney fans and they’ve never reacted to “the circle of life” from the Lion King... But I think it took a a while to get me back home (I was/am very stubborn) and I was lucky , I didn’t lose them until they were in their 80’s. It’s just IMO a REALLY crappy song to spring on a toddler. I just keep picturing the candle with the record, WAY too much to comprehend at that age. I was born in 1977, does anyone know if I’m approximately right about how old I was?
CZcams erased my account because a was telling the truth too much. I wasn't very nice about it. I was TTLt106. This song makes me cry everytime, it's profound for a Smurf song.
I remember when I heard this song for the very first time on Christmas Day 1980 (I was 10 at the time), how hearing this song so tugged at my heartstrings (as I had received the "Smurfing Sing Song" album as a Christmas gift). Sadly and unfortunately, I did not grow up in a very loving family myself. I had a psychopath-narcissist mother who used to engage in very heated verbal tirades with my father (along with also beating me physically with a wooden cooking spoon as a form of punishment while I was little); a father who was not only a major rageaholic, but also had a perspective on reality just as distorted as that of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford (I have lived in Toronto all of my life); and, an older sister who used to bully me all the time (sort of like as to how Lucy treated her brother Linus in the Peanuts comic strips). Despite all the adversity that I have been through in life, at least I will always love within my own heart (which has never been all that easy for me, considering the negative treatment that I have been on the receiving end of for most of my life). As such, I do not contact my parents all that often anymore. With respect to my older sister, she, in many respects, permanently destroyed her relationship with me as a result of a tirade that she decided to throw at me on Christmas Day 2012. Then, when I called her out on it seven months later in July 2013, strongly suggesting to her that it would be within her best interests to go seek anger management counselling, she reacted in a very childish manner that could be interpreted as, "You said I have anger management issues. Waa! Waa! Waa! I'm telling Dad on you, David!" (Grow up at 48 years of age, Linda.) (Yet, you think that it is OK, at 47 years of age, no less, to throw a temper tantrum, especially at a family member, of all people, over the smallest thing that sets you off, Linda. I associate with people in both my Toastmasters group and in my church who are considerably way more mature than you will ever be, Linda.)
You posted this 4 yrs ago, i just seen it because this song came to mind, so i wanted to hear it. Like you, My life was rough. Now, I'm ok with what was or could have been. My only regret is because of my up brining, love never found me, I thought that I had found "the one" ... I WAS WRONG. I would like to talk to you. Contact me at Sandigilbert66@gmail.com
This totally takes me back to my childhood. Kind of emotional thinking about how time truly flies. Really kind of thought provoking song. Thank you posting this.
I needed it!! I had the same experience but I felt love with the sorrow. It made me live knowing life is fragile and not easy at times. This song is deeply profound if you ask me.
Like others here, this song moved me as a child and still does as an adult. :) "We're ringing the bell of life's carousel And when you'll get off it nobody can tell" That's actually rather dark.
Lyrics are pretty clear, but I just couldn't help myself. Here they are... Smurf Merry Go Round There is joy in the family on the day a new baby arrives There are congratulations from relations and husbands and wives And old grandad and grandma are smiling on their happy day As they both dream of their childhood those days their whole life turned away Every day he is growing very soon he's a baby no more On his first day of school mommy smiles as he walks out the door With a tear in her eye she remembers her own first school day Oh but now where are those days it's amazing how time slips away -CHORUS- We're spinning around We're up and we're down We're taking a ride on the merry-go-round We're ringing the bell of life's carousel And when you'll get off it nobody can tell We don't have a care When we've got the fair But sometimes we don't and we're left standing there But soon it's OK and we're up off the ground And we're riding again on the merry-go-round Many years past he's grown up with a wife and a child of his own And they all live together so happy in their home sweet home There are times when he's holding his baby his own pride and joy That his thoughts go a wandering back to when he was a boy Now the years they have flown he's an old man all wrinkled and grey He's grandaddy now and his grandchildren come round to play They are good little children they love him they have so much fun While grandad sits in his chair and remembers when he too was young -CHORUS- (REPEAT)
Thanks for the lyrics! One thought: I've always heard it as "when we've got the FARE", as in, admission to pay for the Merry go round. Otherwise, if you don't you're left standing there as it leaves you behind. Sometimes we don't have that metaphorical fare. Like life, sort of. Which makes more sense to me than "fair". :) Now of course, if you've got the actual printed lyrics somewhere (from the publisher/writer and not a fansite), it's OK to prove me wrong. :) I've just always heard it as "fare".
Thanks so much for sharing this, I think this is actually my favorite on this whole album. Who was the man who sang lead on that track? It almost sounds like Roger Miller.
Been looking for this for ages!!! My niece and nephews had this tape when they were kids. He's getting married this year and want to play this at the wedding.
This song makes me weep. My sweet childhood! 40++ years ago I jammed to this record almost everyday. It's a pretty profound Smurf song. What a bittersweet journey life is...
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1981 i bought this LP. my favorite to this day.
These songs bring tears to my eyes, and send shivers down my spine. I can remember my mom playing this album over and over for us! Awww....to be a kid again! LOVE IT
I loved this song as a kid and sang it often. I'm 40 now and last year I lost my eldest and only sister to cancer. Hearing this song takes me back to the carefree days of my youth. Thank you for the memories.
I never had the album growing up but I remember seeing the commercial for it a bunch of times in the early eighties. I distinctly remember the part of the commercial where part of this song was played and it made want to run out and buy it. Didn’t get to hear the song until I was almost forty. Thanks CZcams.
I haven't heard this song in 30 years, and I didn't realize how deep the words are. Probably because we had it playing while we were working the old Atari 2600. It feels like 82-83 all over again
Its amazing how good the lyrics on this album were.
Thank you for posting this!!
People can laugh if they want, but the Smurfs sang some pretty deep stuff.
And their harmonies were tight!! ;)
I grew up to become a singer/songwriter/composer/producer and I'm sure the Smurfs can be heard in there somewhere.
Kicks the butt of kid's music today.
I wish they'd do a re-release of all the old Smurf albums...the music was the best part about the Smurfs.
This WAS a terrible song to sing to children.It Still to this day makes me curl up into a ball and cry. WHY would they put this on a kids record and tell you everyone you love will die?
I cried too, and yet, now... My oldest child is a senior in HS. It won't be long until I'm riding again on the merry go round and I will be the smiling Grandparent. But I'm not rushing it, it just seems to turn fast on it's own.
I was 10 as well when my Dad got me this. Used to sit in my room every night and listen to the album over and over. I really dont think there was a song I didnt like on this album.
bizarre to run across comments I made so so long ago. I was 38, Im 50 now.
Thanks for posting this I sang these songs with my kids and now I am a grandma and singing them with my grandkids, life really is a merry-go-round.
I memorized every song in this album for my sweet Cody. Remembers it well enough to sing it to my Grandson Zachary James Alderson Frost my oldest son Gabe's only son. The Goodnight Moon song. I would sing it to him every single night he stayed with us until his momma moved him to California. The entire album is wonderful thanks to whoever wrote, played instruments and conducted this. You're all fantastic! Many wonderful memories! God bless you all
I havent listened to this in 30 years and found an old cassette to play for my six year old. I never understood the message of this song until just now!! sniff sniff
I loved this song! I got the album in 1980 when I was 10 years old💕
This song is so true!!! Time flies!!!
1983 vinyl…❤️❤️
I am so glad everyone else had a good childhood with this song...of course I did too or else I would't love this song.....I wish my brother didn't die at 6 but this was his song...and I often wonder why?
This gives me goosebumps. I can close my eyes and hear my three-year-old singing it in 1983. She absolutely adored this song!
Oh my gosh! I haven't heard this song since I was ten years old and my worn out tape got destroyed. I just turned 40 so that's 30 years! I have never forgotten it though... It was poignant then and even more so now. Wow... Thank you for posting!
I use to have this on vinyl! I would listen to this song all the time when I was little. Thank u so much for posting this :)
I bought this album for my kids when they were little. My son is almost 40 my daughter 38. I now sing these songs to my grandchildren; still have the album. ❤️❤️❤️
me too!
I absolutely love this song!!! I was 10 yrs old when my dad surprised me with this album and this was my favorite song! Thanx sooo much for posting! I can not find this song ANYwhere.
You can probably find this song and album on Amazon or Kijiji or even wish
Great song off my childhood
I'm 30 still hearing from record song itink this kind of music is real child songs not to days this songs like 80 70 90 wer more imagesnation in us then today we see the world difret
love this record thanks for uploading the songs
When I was a kid this song used to make me cry. It's basically about the circle of life.
@TTLt106 It MADE me BAWL(but do you remember how they tricked you because the actual record was SO pretty)it wasn’t a regular record it had pictures on it.And All I could was we are going to die. (And my Dad was no better because he loved Cats in the cradle)
@TTLt106 But when you are like, 4 it’s kinda traumatic. I just remember loving the smurfs every Saturday morning and the record wasn’t normal (it had pictures of them on the vinyl.. a lot of pink....) and I want to say I got it as a birthday gift and my parents had this candle that you burned out each year until you were a “grown up” (I actually think that candle was thrown out THAT year, but it had like kindergarten, sweet 16 etc...) And you waited until the wax melted. My reaction was running to my grandparents saying your going to die, literally bawling...No cake nothing, I got in their bed , refused to leave (now that I’m an adult it’s kinda funny) IDK what I would do if my kids did that but I’m more careful, We are big Disney fans and they’ve never reacted to “the circle of life” from the Lion King... But I think it took a a while to get me back home (I was/am very stubborn) and I was lucky , I didn’t lose them until they were in their 80’s. It’s just IMO a REALLY crappy song to spring on a toddler.
I just keep picturing the candle with the record, WAY too much to comprehend at that age.
I was born in 1977, does anyone know if I’m approximately right about how old I was?
@@jessicastraub1132 Oh my gosh I love the song cats in the cradle.
CZcams erased my account because a was telling the truth too much. I wasn't very nice about it. I was TTLt106. This song makes me cry everytime, it's profound for a Smurf song.
I remember when I heard this song for the very first time on Christmas Day 1980 (I was 10 at the time), how hearing this song so tugged at my heartstrings (as I had received the "Smurfing Sing Song" album as a Christmas gift).
Sadly and unfortunately, I did not grow up in a very loving family myself. I had a psychopath-narcissist mother who used to engage in very heated verbal tirades with my father (along with also beating me physically with a wooden cooking spoon as a form of punishment while I was little); a father who was not only a major rageaholic, but also had a perspective on reality just as distorted as that of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford (I have lived in Toronto all of my life); and, an older sister who used to bully me all the time (sort of like as to how Lucy treated her brother Linus in the Peanuts comic strips).
Despite all the adversity that I have been through in life, at least I will always love within my own heart (which has never been all that easy for me, considering the negative treatment that I have been on the receiving end of for most of my life).
As such, I do not contact my parents all that often anymore. With respect to my older sister, she, in many respects, permanently destroyed her relationship with me as a result of a tirade that she decided to throw at me on Christmas Day 2012. Then, when I called her out on it seven months later in July 2013, strongly suggesting to her that it would be within her best interests to go seek anger management counselling, she reacted in a very childish manner that could be interpreted as, "You said I have anger management issues. Waa! Waa! Waa! I'm telling Dad on you, David!" (Grow up at 48 years of age, Linda.)
(Yet, you think that it is OK, at 47 years of age, no less, to throw a temper tantrum, especially at a family member, of all people, over the smallest thing that sets you off, Linda. I associate with people in both my Toastmasters group and in my church who are considerably way more mature than you will ever be, Linda.)
That is AWFUL! I am so sorry to hear that.
You posted this 4 yrs ago, i just seen it because this song came to mind, so i wanted to hear it.
Like you, My life was rough. Now, I'm ok with what was or could have been. My only regret is because of my up brining, love never found me,
I thought that I had found
"the one" ... I WAS WRONG.
I would like to talk to you. Contact me at Sandigilbert66@gmail.com
This totally takes me back to my childhood. Kind of emotional thinking about how time truly flies. Really kind of thought provoking song. Thank you posting this.
me too
My kids use to sing this while I attempted to play it on guitar for friends. We had a blast. 30-40 years ago?
Thank you sooo much for posting these smurf songs. I didn't think that I would ever hear them again since my album got damaged. :)
Did you have the "pretty" one too?(it was kinda pink and had them on it???)
Used to listen to this when I was six I'm now 35 couldn't belive it when I found these old songs on youtube
...and now we're almost 50.......time
This song gave me an existential crisis and introduced me to the concept of mortality at the age of 6... I really did not need that.
I needed it!! I had the same experience but I felt love with the sorrow. It made me live knowing life is fragile and not easy at times. This song is deeply profound if you ask me.
omg!
I'm right there with you!
I forgot about this. seeing this made me really happy. reminds me of being a little kid for sure.
Like others here, this song moved me as a child and still does as an adult. :)
"We're ringing the bell of life's carousel
And when you'll get off it nobody can tell"
That's actually rather dark.
It is dark and light at the same time. Just like life. Very mature for a children's song.
...back when songs still had morality in them, not just maximum commercial exploitation.
Nice song
Jus bought this back!!!
Between my mom with this and my dad with "cats in the cradle" no wonder I have depression.
And isnt it a wonderful life!!!
Lyrics are pretty clear, but I just couldn't help myself. Here they are...
Smurf Merry Go Round
There is joy in the family on the day a new baby arrives
There are congratulations from relations and husbands and wives
And old grandad and grandma are smiling on their happy day
As they both dream of their childhood those days their whole life turned away
Every day he is growing very soon he's a baby no more
On his first day of school mommy smiles as he walks out the door
With a tear in her eye she remembers her own first school day
Oh but now where are those days it's amazing how time slips away
-CHORUS-
We're spinning around
We're up and we're down
We're taking a ride on the merry-go-round
We're ringing the bell of life's carousel
And when you'll get off it nobody can tell
We don't have a care
When we've got the fair
But sometimes we don't and we're left standing there
But soon it's OK and we're up off the ground
And we're riding again on the merry-go-round
Many years past he's grown up with a wife and a child of his own
And they all live together so happy in their home sweet home
There are times when he's holding his baby his own pride and joy
That his thoughts go a wandering back to when he was a boy
Now the years they have flown he's an old man all wrinkled and grey
He's grandaddy now and his grandchildren come round to play
They are good little children they love him they have so much fun
While grandad sits in his chair and remembers when he too was young
-CHORUS-
(REPEAT)
thanks for sharing! I danced to this when a child
Thanks for the lyrics!
One thought: I've always heard it as "when we've got the FARE", as in, admission to pay for the Merry go round. Otherwise, if you don't you're left standing there as it leaves you behind. Sometimes we don't have that metaphorical fare.
Like life, sort of. Which makes more sense to me than "fair". :)
Now of course, if you've got the actual printed lyrics somewhere (from the publisher/writer and not a fansite), it's OK to prove me wrong. :) I've just always heard it as "fare".
Pretty sure it’s:
As they both dream of their childhoods, those days are a lifetime away
(Which is a much more poignant example of time passing us by)
MooseBoy It is “fare”
Thanks so much for sharing this, I think this is actually my favorite on this whole album. Who was the man who sang lead on that track? It almost sounds like Roger Miller.
Been looking for this for ages!!! My niece and nephews had this tape when they were kids. He's getting married this year and want to play this at the wedding.
I actually had this on my wedding's reception list of songs. We had a very eclectic list ;)
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!!!! :)
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