Talk:Do Your Ears Hang Low?

message: The first citation comes from an email list, and is unencyclopedic. The second source about soldiers cutting off the ears of slaves is offensive, and furthermore is baseless. There is no contemporary or historian who has documented such behavior. I am removing both sources. 68.197.174.59 (talk) 22:00, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations of Origin

message: Added Roud Folk Song Index number.  Any song recorded by both Barney and Kinky Friedman can't be all bad, and you can verify that they recorded it at allmusic.com. Pustelnik (talk) 01:27, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability

message: I assume this is a pretty obscure article not many people will bother to read, but why is there no example?
--Too Lazy To Login  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.171.252.55 (talk) 03:56, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you mean example lyrics? AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 07:18, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Examples

message: Beyond the original lyrics, please don't post any specific titles/refs in the Popular culture section. There could be any number of plays on this, and we don't post them all. Removed the following from the article:
:The song has also been appropriated by hip-hop artist Jibbs in his song "Chain Hang Low". The 1969 film Easy Rider documents another extant version that uses "hair" with the verses beginning, "How do you wear your hair? Does your hair hang low?"
:Wanda sings in The Bernie Mac Show, episode "Some Church Bull."
:Scott and Laurie sang this song in "Wee Sing in Sillyville" after Barney the dog arrived at their house.
--70.128.123.6 (talk) 00:44, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Examples Please! 

message: Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 06:47, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: "I like the tune, but you must know that that in any circumstances those words are inexcusable!" Does the source really say "that that"?
"The tune is frequently heard being played on ice cream truck P.A. speakers in America." Ice cream trucks around here play music without words, so the tune is Turkey in the Straw. Art LaPella (talk) 20:45, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some nits 

message: 'Continental soldier' links to the page referencing the American Continental Army, but considering the putative origin - British - is it just as likely that 'continental soldier'  is referencing soldiers of the continent, ie. Europe? Uhnon Amess (talk) 00:19, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "History" 

message: I just discovered this song exists in English. There is a French version, “Mes oreilles tombent-elles ?” or “Tes oreilles tombent-elles ?” (litt. “Are my/your ears falling?”), which is very well known and popular as a nursery rhyme, at least in France. The lyrics seem very much parrallel to the English version:
Mes oreilles tombent-elles
Sauras-tu les ramasser
Les entortiller ou bien les nouer
Les passer par dessus l’épaule
En visière de pompier
Mes oreilles tombent-elles
litt.
Do my ears fall off
Can you pick them up
Twist them or tie them
Get them over shoulders
Like a firefighting visor
Do my ears fall off
Funilly enough, it is very typically sung while taking a heavy pseudo-British accent singing in French. Reading the history in this article, it seems that this could very well be influenced by the British soldiers coming to France during the war. But that would mean that the “ears” version (and not only the “balls” version) existed to these British soldiers at the time.
~ nicolas (talk) 17:47, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  French version