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Please 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?

Date: 2011-01-07 08:09 pm (UTC)
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Your own version is the one I recall from the school playground.

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