Talk:When Johnny Comes Marching Home

message: When we were kids, we used to laugh at the line "And we'll all feel gay" right before "When Johnny comes marching home". It appears that someone has vandalized the page, and removed that line. I'm adding it back. And "Gay" in this sense means "Glad".
The Clash's song "English Civil War" used the melody of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", and incorporated the first line:
"When Johnny comes marching home again, 
hurrah, ta dah, 
He's coming by bus or underground, 
hurrah, ta dah"
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Original sheet music (1863) gives credit for words and music to Louis Lambert. -AlvinMGO 23:24, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This was apparently a pseudonym JQ 07:51, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Technically, Talk pages are not intended as vehicles for general queries like this but rather as a forum where improvements and edits to the article can be discussed. However - your query can be answered briefly. Your great-grandfather was remembering the Irish version of the song, which has a Wikipedia article on it, Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye. There is an active discussion there and in the real world about which song gave rise to the other - which is the older of the two. The jury is still out on that. regards, Sensei48 (talk) 04:01, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
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message: However, expert James Fuld, author of the standard text on popular music, The Book of World Famous Music, states on page 640 of that volume that Donal O'Sullivan, the Irish authority, has written the Library of Congress that he does not consider the melody of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" as Irish in origin. As stated, no printed music of Irish origin has been discovered that predates American publication in September of 1863 by Henry Tolman in Boston under the title "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". Library of Congress records do show a title "Johnny Fill Up The Bowl" that was published in July of 1863 by John J. Daly that appears to contain the song's melody.
Since when was "Irish Authority" a respected or bona fide title -- this has all the credibility of some bloke down the pub that reads lots of books on Irish music. If this person is a genuine academic then publish a source. You might then also rewrite the whole article because it's a mess.
100% pure Wikiality.
 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.129.162 (talk) 19:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
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message: The link for "The Ants Go Marching One By One" says, "By Robert D. Singleton  'The Ants Go Marching' is a children's song that first appeared in Barney's Campfire Sing Along (1990)." But I had it on a record in the 1970s when I was little, and the lyrics were slightly different. Instead of, "And they all start marching down to the ground / To get out of the rain, BOOM BOOM BOOM.", it was, "And they all start marching / To the end / Of the Earth / To get out / Of the rain." I don't remember what the record was and I don't have it anymore. Does anyone else remember this? Sluggoster (talk) 18:22, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: The Ants Go Marching

message: Some performances I've seen of "On Springfield Mountain" are sung to a melody that's fairly similar. For example:
http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=6974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vELGVnPt_Pc
On the other hand, other performances use some very different melodies. Anyone know what the deal is there?
Esn (talk) 03:03, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Similarity to "On Springfield Mountain"

message: Does the stone wine in the song reference Würzburger Stein wines (Steinwein)? Or just the stoneware? Just a question. J. D. Redding 13:01, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
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message: Here in the UK, there are two VERY well-known children's variants on this melody, often sung in a major key but unmistakably owing to this source melody. On Wikipedia, The Runaway Train has only a passing mention on a disambiguation page, and I didn't find The Animals Went In Two By Two. I think it's apt to cite both of these on this very page, and I think the British popular consciousness would so immediately agree (look online for children's song pages/recordings to verify this). However, I'm not confidently Wikipedian, and would not know how to source something as colloquial as a children's culture song. 2.103.211.132 (talk) 18:46, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: The Runaway Train, Animals Two By Two

message: Used in a dance scene in the film Stalag 17 86.9.117.8 (talk) 18:49, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film reference