Please help me settle a family dispute. Some of us think it’s one of these, others another. And I added a wild card as well.
They’re in alpha order, and I’m not yet giving my personal preference, which is, of course, the Right and Proper answer.
You can hear it sung correctly by Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street.
Have not the first clue what in the heck you are asking
Jiggity jig (rhymes with pig) is only half-right. You are forgetting Jiggity jog (rhymes with hog)
I’ve always heard it as Jiggity jig
Then my kids went to sleep away camp and came home singing the Riggidy Jig song which they sing while cleaning up cabins and picking up their dishes after meals.
It only takes the campers about 10 minutes to bus dishes and clear out tables of 300 campers after meals.
WHAT are you people talking about?
It’s Shakespeare.
Not really. It’s a nursery rhyme.
Ohhh kayyyy. Never seen that before. And I guess it has a nursery rhyme tie in that I have never heard.
I’ve always said it as “jiggity-jug”.
Home again, home again, jiggety jig,
I am a farmer, and you are a pig.
I am a farmer, and you are a hog—
Home again, home again, jiggety jog.
My parents always said “ziggity zig”. So I chose “other”.
I thought it was Pink Floyd.
If you synchronize Dark Side of the Moon with Macbeth…
I thought it was a nursery rhyme. Can’t remember the rest of it, though.
I was making up a third option, and thought of using “ziggity zig,” but at the last minute decided on “ziggity jig,” for no particular reason. So although I’m somewhat surprised that anyone really used “ziggity zig” (unless I’m being whooshed), feel free to change your vote.
We were coming home from a family gathering one evening and as we pulled into the garage I said, “Home again, home again, jiggety, jig”. My husband looked at me like I was a kook and asked me, “what is that?” He had never heard of it before. I really don’t know where I heard it either, but at some point in my life it made an impression on me and I still remember it.
This is precisely the situation in which members of our family use the phrase, and some of them (I’m not naming names) use the wrong phrase. This poll is my attempt to show them the error of their ways.
OTHER.
The way I learned it on my Little Golden record of nursery rhymes was
To market to market
To buy a fat pig
Home again, home again
Jiggety jig.
To market to market
To buy a fat hog
Home again, home again
Jiggety jog.
It’s definitely jiggety jog to rhyme with hog.
It occurs to me that the “jiggety jig” (or jog) may have been meant to mimic the rhythm of a trotting horse. Which jiggles you around some, at least if you’re not posting.