Variations
- In the UK, especially with the elderly, it is common for the lyrics "She'll be wearing pink pyjamas when she comes" and "Singing ey, ey, yippee, yippee, ey. Singing ey, ey, yippee, yippee, ey. Singing ey, ey, yippee, yippee ey, ey, yippee, ey, ey, yippee, yippee, ey." to be sung.
- Often, the verse "We will kill the old red rooster when she comes" is omitted, and "chicken and dumplings" is replaced with "cake and ice cream".
- Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their 1960 album Sing Again with The Chipmunks.
- At least two soccer chants are sung to the tune of this song: English fans chant "Ten German Bombers" when their team is playing Germany. And Newcastle United fans chant "Ten Mackem B@stards" - celebrating Shola Ameobi's excellent record against their local rivals Sunderland.
- Jibjab created a satire about George W. Bush's re-election called "Second Term" to the tune of "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain".
- The American death metal band Macabre used the melody on the song "Coming to Chicago" on their album Dahmer themed on the life of Jeffrey Dahmer.
- Bender of Futurama sang his own variation in "The Series Has Landed" ("Well, I'll shoot her with my raygun when she comes," "I'll be blasting all the humans in the world")
- Ned Flanders of The Simpsons sang his own variation in "The Bart of War".
- We'll be safe inside our fortress when they come.
- We'll be safe from creeps and killers when they come.
- Unless they have a blow-torch
- Or a poison gas injector,
- Then I don't know what will happen when they come!
- A Scottish children's song to this tune features the lyrics:
- Oh ye cannae shove yer granny off a bus
- No ye cannae shove yer granny off a bus
- No ye cannae shove yer granny, 'cause she's yer mammy's mammy,
- Ye cannae shove yer granny off a bus!
- Ye can shove yer other granny off a bus
- Oh ye can shove yer other granny off a bus
- Oh ye can shove yer other granny, 'cause she's yer daddy's mammy,
- Ye can shove yer other granny off a bus!
- The German Songs "Tante aus Marokko" and "Von den blauen Bergen kommen wir" as well as the Dutch song "Tante uit Marokko" share the same melody and some elements from the text.
- In Wizards of Waverly Place episode "Monster Hunter", Harper Finkle creates a "spell song" for Alex Russo to remember the spells.
- In 2012 Neil Young together with Crazy Horse recorded an almost six minutes long version on their album Americana with the title "Jesus Chariot".
- Indonesian singer, "Didi Kempot" uses the melody (with slight alteration) in his song titled "Cucakrowo".
- The song is part of the Songs of the Sea Soundtrack abstracted from the Singapore attraction Songs of the Sea in Sentosa.
- There is an Esperanto song Ju-pi-ja with similar text and same melody.
- In the Reader's Digest Children's Songbook, the song is rewritten with new words by Dan Fox and his son Paul and tells of the things that "she" will do in increasing number up to ten (e.g.: "She'll be ridin' on a camel," "She'll be tuggin' on two turtles," "She'll be carvin' three thick thistles," "She'll be pluckin' four fat pheasants," etc.).
- The Italian Boy Scouts used to sing the song with very approximate English lyrics or unrelated Italian ones up until the 'Eighties. It was called "Singhingaia" from the refrain.
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Famous quotes containing the word variations:
“I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.”
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