<P> In the opening scene and throughout The Fresh Prince of Bel - Air episode "I Know Why The Caged Bird Screams", Carlton and company sings the tune with alternative lyrics referring to the school mascot, "Peacocks! We're marching down the field . Peacocks! And we refuse to yield! No one's tougher,' Cause we are rougher! We are the Peacocks of ULA!" The song and "march" is called the "Peacock Strut" throughout the episode . </P> <P> The melody was used in a scene in the film Spaceballs as small "Dinks" walk the desert singing the tune with only the word, "Dink" by themselves and again with the protagonists . </P> <P> English composer Malcolm Arnold added a counter-march, which he titled "The River Kwai March," for the 1957 dramatic film The Bridge on the River Kwai, set during World War II . The two marches were recorded together by Mitch Miller as "March from the River Kwai--Colonel Bogey ." Consequently, the "Colonel Bogey March" is often miscredited as "River Kwai March ." While Arnold did use "Colonel Bogey" in his score for the film, it was only the first theme and a bit of the second theme of "Colonel Bogey," whistled unaccompanied by the British prisoners several times as they marched into the prison camp . Since the film depicted prisoners of war held under inhumane conditions by the Japanese, Canadian officials were embarrassed in May 1980, when a military band played "Colonel Bogey" during a visit to Ottawa by Japanese prime minister Masayoshi Ōhira . </P>

Theme song to bridge on the river kwai