Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear

A popular tongue-twister rhyme that was first documented in a 1942 edition of "The Yorker" magazine. The term "Fuzzy Wuzzy" originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem describing Hadendoa warriors in Sudan known for their distinctive hairstyles. The children's tongue twister plays on the paradox that "Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, so Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't really fuzzy, was he?" The rhyme gained further popularity when it was adapted into a song in 1944, with notable performances by the Milt Herth Trio and The Jesters in 1945, which achieved a #12 spot on Billboard's jukebox rankings.