Heffalumps and Woozles

"Heffalumps And Woozles" is a song from the Walt Disney musical film featurette, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. It was written by Robert & Richard Sherman.

The song is about phantasmagoric elephants and weasels becoming a threat to Pooh and his food source. The song serves as a soundtrack to the iconic, psychodelic "Pooh Nightmare" sequence where Pooh subconciously deals with the theft of his all-too-precious honey.

If honey's what you covet
You'll find that- they love it
And then t hey'll guzzle up the thing you prize!"

Although the song is not used in the 2006 feature, Pooh's Heffalump Movie; it is generally accepted that the song and acompanying visual montage is the inspiration of the Heffalump film. Such is more definitively the case with the relationship between the Sherman Brothers' song, "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers" and the 2000 release of The Tigger Movie".

• The song was considered very "of its time", borrowing liberally from the psychedelic experimentation which was prevalent in the late 1960s.

Literary Sources

• Sherman, Robert B. Walt's Time: from before to beyond. Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998.
• Peterson, Monique. Disney's The Little Big Book of Pooh. New York: Disney Editions, 2002.