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ventaPlease help me. I am suffering from extreme dwarf-related confusion.
This morning, I heard someone say "Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go".
I mused that, in my world, the words which follow that are "With a shovel and a spade, and a hand grenade". And I was pretty sure that they weren't in the Disney original.
A quick straw poll drew suggestions of "With a shovel and a pick, and a walking stick" or "With a knife and fork, and a belly full of pork". Neither of those struck me as being all that likely as the original words.
So, me and google got together. And I am baffled.
The only reliable-looking sets of words I can find online don't seem to contain these lines at all. They, and the clips I've found on youtube, feataure the dwarves singing "Hi ho, hi ho, it's home from work we go" and then whistling the next couple of lines. They "dig, dig, dig with a shovel and a pick", but they never list the items they are carrying.
My first assumption was that this was just a different version of the song, which shows up later in the film. But I can't find any lyrics for, or clips of, the "off to work, with a..." version.
Is my google-fu very poor today? Has anyone seen Snow White recently? Do the dwarves, in fact, never actually sing about going off to work?
This morning, I heard someone say "Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go".
I mused that, in my world, the words which follow that are "With a shovel and a spade, and a hand grenade". And I was pretty sure that they weren't in the Disney original.
A quick straw poll drew suggestions of "With a shovel and a pick, and a walking stick" or "With a knife and fork, and a belly full of pork". Neither of those struck me as being all that likely as the original words.
So, me and google got together. And I am baffled.
The only reliable-looking sets of words I can find online don't seem to contain these lines at all. They, and the clips I've found on youtube, feataure the dwarves singing "Hi ho, hi ho, it's home from work we go" and then whistling the next couple of lines. They "dig, dig, dig with a shovel and a pick", but they never list the items they are carrying.
My first assumption was that this was just a different version of the song, which shows up later in the film. But I can't find any lyrics for, or clips of, the "off to work, with a..." version.
Is my google-fu very poor today? Has anyone seen Snow White recently? Do the dwarves, in fact, never actually sing about going off to work?
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Date: 2011-01-07 10:25 am (UTC)This almost agrees with
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Date: 2011-01-07 10:33 am (UTC)I have found a film clip which confirms that the "home to work" lyrics are used, but not one to confirm the other.
Accordingly, I'm going to claim that someone is wrong on the internet :)
maybe this should be on the common misconceptions page on wikipedia? ;-)
Date: 2011-01-07 11:11 am (UTC)Re: maybe this should be on the common misconceptions page on wikipedia? ;-)
Date: 2011-01-07 11:16 am (UTC)I agree, "home from work", I just typed it out wrongly earlier.
Re: maybe this should be on the common misconceptions page on wikipedia? ;-)
Date: 2011-01-07 11:36 am (UTC)Re: maybe this should be on the common misconceptions page on wikipedia? ;-)
Date: 2011-01-07 11:43 am (UTC)Re: maybe this should be on the common misconceptions page on wikipedia? ;-)
Date: 2011-01-07 12:57 pm (UTC)Re: maybe this should be on the common misconceptions page on wikipedia? ;-)
Date: 2011-01-07 01:03 pm (UTC)Re: maybe this should be on the common misconceptions page on wikipedia? ;-)
Date: 2011-01-07 01:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-07 10:33 am (UTC)[1] Pun intended, sorry!
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Date: 2011-01-07 10:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-07 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-07 10:38 am (UTC)Less helpfully...