Appearances in Popular Music
Woodfall's poem was set to music, as a ballad, by the time of the appearance in 1805 of James Plumptre's Collection of Songs, where it was #152 in the first volume.
Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern's 1937 ballad "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" mentions Darby and Joan:
- We'll sit and look at the same old view,
- Just we two.
- Darby and Joan who used to be Jack and Jill,
- The folks who like to be called,
- What they have always been called,
- "The folks who live on the hill".
The phrase was used satirically by Noël Coward in the song "Bronxville Darby and Joan" from his musical Sail Away (1961). The refrain begins, "We're a dear old couple and we hate one another."
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