The Bear and the Maiden fair is popular with nobles and the small folk, the song tells the tale of a bear going to a fair with a band of three boys, a goat and dancing with a fine maiden who expected a knight. This song is sung all throughout the Seven Kingdoms, the song is sung at the harvest feast at Winterfell, Tom of Sevenstreams sings it with Hot Pie on the ride to the Inn of the Kneeling Man. When Tom wants someone to sing with, Hot Pie tells him he knows the song about the bear. Tom starts to sing it and Hot Pie s in lustily. During the grim march back to Craster's Keep after the fight at the Fist, Grenn tries to encourage Samwell Tarly to keep marching by telling him to sing a song in his head. Grenn suggests "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" and starts to sing it, but Sam begs him not to as it makes him think of the hideous wight bear that had come at them at the Fist. It is sung by Butterbumps at Sansa Stark's dinner with Margaery Tyrell and Olenna Tyrell to cover the conversation about King Joffrey I Baratheon. Greatjon Umber sings it, drunkenly, at the Red Wedding, at the same time as musicians perform "Flowers of Spring.” During the battle near Yunkai Ser Barristan Selmy tells Daenerys Targaryen that King Robert I Baratheon liked songs that made him laugh. Barristan adds that Robert only sang when he was drunk, and then by that point one of the songs was likely to be "The Bear and the Maiden Fair". It is sung by Dareon on the voyage to Braavos. The song is sung by Abel for Barbrey Dustin during a meal at Winterfell.
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Lyrics
A bear there was, a bear, a bear!
All black and brown, and covered with hair.
The bear! The bear!
Oh come they said, oh come to the fair!
The fair? Said he, but I’m a bear!
All black and brown, and covered with hair!
And down the road from here to there.
From here! To there!
Three boys, a goat and a dancing bear!
They danced and spun, all the way to the fair!
The fair! The fair!
Oh, sweet she was, and pure and fair!
The maid with honey in her hair!
Her hair! Her hair!
The maid with honey in her hair!
The bear smelled the scent on the summer air.
The bear! The bear!
All black and brown and covered with hair!
He smelled the scent on the summer air!
He sniffed and roared and smelled it there!
Honey on the summer air!
Oh, I’m a maid, and I’m pure and fair!
I’ll never dance with a hairy bear!
A bear! A bear!
I’ll never dance with a hairy bear!
The bear, the bear!
Lifted her high into the air!
The bear! The bear!
I called for a knight, but you’re a bear!
A bear, a bear!
All black and brown and covered with hair
She kicked and wailed, the maid so fair,
But he licked the honey from her hair.
Her hair! Her hair!
He licked the honey from her hair!
Then she sighed and squealed and kicked the air!
My bear! She sang. My bear so fair!
And off they went, from here to there,
The bear, the bear, and the maiden fair.
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