Talk:John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

message: ( There was an earlier attempt to propose this page for deletion that was left incomplete)
this page is the coolest ( Old comment - from history  22:27, 20 Aug 2004 216.254.16.162)
So starting again .....  --Cje 08:09, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: ''from VfD:''

message: I removed bits saying it's a nursery rhyme from the article because I don't think it follows the pattern of a typical nursery rhyme. It may technically be one in origin, but I wouldn't expect it to appear in a Mother Goose collection or anything. My specific problems with this classification are the infinite repetition, the "da da da da da da da" at the end, and it doesn't have a "poetic" feel to it (though it does have a rhyming line); none of these are characteristic of nursery rhymes. - furrykef (Talk at me) 15:43, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: --Jerzy·t 16:19 & 16:27, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this a nursery rhyme? 

message: I learned the song as John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith.  Is this a common enough variant to be worth noting?  --152.7.49.221 02:35, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variation 

message: Snyder, Jerry (1985). Children's Songs for Guitar: 100 Songs for Early Childhood  contains the song with the author's arrangement being copyright 1976; the authorship is given as "traditional." Шизомби 21:21, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How old is the song?

message: It's from an english learning book and cassete tape set.
I had this book and tape 20 years ago, and sadly i lost them.
Anyway it's actually a story about a new born boy and he's got too many
relatives and every uncles and aunts wanted to name the boy after their
own name, so the parents had to name their child that long name.
Someday the John Jacob boy came across another boy whose name's 
also John Jacob Jingle-Heimer Schmidt.
That book had all the texts, lyrics and drawings describing the scenes.
and the tape contained all the stories and songs.
I'm Korean in case if you want to know. and i can't find that book
here anymore. Frankly i'm suprised you never heard of that book.
:It's a lot older than that. Frankly, I'm surprised you think your book is the original source.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.91.173.36 (talk) 17:36, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  As far as I know 

message: Doees anyone have any idea where it first originated? Who was he?
24.6.221.189 00:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

message: I believe I know.  This ditty is not unlike "Yankee Doodle".  It celebrates a Revolutionary War hero.  A Pennsylvania Dutchman like me (Dutch is a bastardization of Deutsch = German).  His name was John Jacob Mickley.  He was one of the officers who brought the Liberty Bell out of Philadelphia to Allentown when the British occupied the city.  It was brought in Mickley's wagon at night to be hidden under the floor of the Zion Reformed Luthern Church on Hamilton St.  When the british were driven out, the Allentown militia returned the Bell to Philly.  I am not sure about the song, but this history is solid.  Check with the Lehigh Valley Historical Society.  Anecdotally, you can't grow up in Allentown without taking a field trip or two to the church and visiting the Liberty Bell shrine in the basement, complete with a replica Bell.The1zog (talk) 01:26, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mystery 

message: This is the song as I remember learning it in my pre-teen years (I've probably forgotten a verse or two, and have some of the words wrong, but this is how I remember it):
There was a funny little man who had a funny name
And he was very proud of it 'cause no-one elses was the same
And then one day he left his town to strike out on his own
And met a total stranger a thousand miles from home, 
Who said:
(Chorus)
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
That's my name too
Whenever I go out
The people always shout, "Hey! John Jacob Jingleheimer Shmidt, da da da da da da da da"
He took up mountain climbing to scale his way to fame
If he were first to reach the top then all would know his name
Then finally he reached the top, and sat right down and cried
For someone else had beat him, who climbed the other side.
He said: (Chorus)
He took an ocean voyage to forget his cares a while
The ship was sunk and he was stranded on a desert isle
He never saw another soul for many years or more
Until he met a native a-walkin' on the shore,
Who said: (Chorus)
When he got very old and knew the end was coming soon
He built himself a rocket ship and took off for the moon
He landed in a great big hole, and when he stepped outside
A thousand funny little men ran up to him and cried:
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
That's our name too
Whenever we go out
The people always shout, "Hey! John Jacob Jingleheimer Shmidt, da da da da da da da da"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by FuzzyBunnyFeet (talk • contribs) 01:37, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  I learned it from Captain Kangaroo when I was a child in the mid to late 1960s 

message: Why should Austrians sing a nursery rhyme in English? -- megA (talk) 10:10, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Austrian version"?? 

message: Isn't it sometimes sung "John Jacob Jingleheimer-Smith" instead of Shmidt? A Google search shows 8,000 results for "Jingleheimer-Smith" -- while this is less than the 700,000 results for "Jingleheimer-Schmidt" I still think it qualifies Smith as a common variant. Growing up I definitely heard the Smith version... should this variant be listed?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.218.72.80 (talk) 09:07, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Smith" variant 

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) 08:10, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: What's the deal with the "Blinkenlights Faxlore" ? That doesn't link to anything, or make a lot of since in context. Remove? KLoverde (talk) 19:06, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 23:23, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Blinkenlights 

message: I find it hard to believe that John Jacob Astor is not mentioned ONCE in this article!  While the song may be about German-American names in general, fact is that the most famous one on the entire planet at the time of this song's appearance just HAPPENED to be "John Jacob" specifically.
It would be like a nursery rhyme popping up now with "George W." anything or "Camilla Parker" anything.  It's OBVIOUS what they're satirizing!
I would say the song was playing quite directly on Astor's fame, but I will wait for some feedback before changing anything. 209.172.25.21 (talk) 22:10, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: John and Jacob are both common names and it isn't unreasonable to say they are unrelated. Flalf (talk) 22:10, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Astor 

message: "99 Bottles of Beer" is obviously not infinite.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.91.173.36 (talk) 17:38, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Logic Fail 

message: The name Jingleheimer obviously refers to the German Ingelheimer (person from Ingelheim), derisively transformed by Anglophones to Jingleheimer. John Jacob (Hans Jakob) and Schmidt were most common German names about 1850 (Schmidt, of course, is still). Among the Germans in USA there were many immigrants from Rhenish Hesse, and Ingelheim is a prominent place of that region. All this together may have evoked this joke song about two Ingelheimers called Hans Jakob Schmidt - not an individual person. --Rabanus Flavus (talk) 20:21, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deutsches