# Home again, home again **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604 "2023-10-15T16:56:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/1 "2023-10-15T16:56:19Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/1))_ 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. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/2 "2023-10-15T17:01:48Z")
You can hear it [sung correctly by Kris Kringle](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/0626d95e-e209-4a26-a870-b1327168cb7c) in _Miracle on 34th Street_. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/3 "2023-10-15T17:25:25Z")
Have not the first clue what in the heck you are asking ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/4 "2023-10-15T17:56:32Z")
Jiggity jig (rhymes with pig) is only half-right. You are forgetting Jiggity jog (rhymes with hog) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/5 "2023-10-15T17:56:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/6 "2023-10-15T18:02:44Z")
WHAT are you people talking about? ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/7 "2023-10-15T18:10:22Z")
It’s Shakespeare. Not really. It’s a nursery rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/8 "2023-10-15T18:23:09Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qpK6GcViC88/hqdefault.jpg "Home Again, Home Again Jiggity Jig") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpK6GcViC88) ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/9 "2023-10-15T18:39:30Z")
Ohhh kayyyy. Never seen that before. And I guess it has a nursery rhyme tie in that I have never heard. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/10 "2023-10-15T21:10:04Z")
I’ve always said it as “jiggity-jug”. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/11 "2023-10-15T21:16:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/12 "2023-10-16T00:46:51Z")
My parents always said “ziggity zig”. So I chose “other”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/13 "2023-10-16T00:59:31Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > It’s Shakespeare I thought it was Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/14 "2023-10-16T01:05:54Z")
If you synchronize Dark Side of the Moon with Macbeth… ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/15 "2023-10-16T01:49:53Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > > [@pjd](#): > > > > It’s Shakespeare > > I thought it was Pink Floyd. I thought it was a nursery rhyme. Can’t remember the rest of it, though. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/16 "2023-10-16T02:43:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/17 "2023-10-16T14:33:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/18 "2023-10-16T14:57:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/19 "2023-10-16T16:26:53Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-again-home-again/991604/20 "2023-10-16T18:12:49Z")
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.