Talk:Little Brown Jug (song)

How about the melody?
The article as I read it today doesn't even mention the melody, whether it was original in the 1869 Joseph Winner version or is derived from a popular tune (the reason I looked it up). Does anyone have information on this side of the song? Billfalls (talk) 18:23, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Additional citations
Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 04:20, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 29 June 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: not moved. --  JHunterJ (talk) 11:25, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

– As indicated in the disambiguation page entry for this song: "Most or all other uses of this phrase are named after this famous song". It is part of American culture, is well known throughout the English-speaking world and is familiar in most parts of the world due to its frequent use in American films and popular music. — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 02:59, 29 June 2020 (UTC) —Relisted. – Ammarpad (talk) 06:35, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Little Brown Jug (song) → Little Brown Jug
 * Little Brown Jug → Little Brown Jug (disambiguation)
 * Oppose per the well-known football trophy and horse race. The horse race is the final leg of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers and, as the page mentions, "Along with the Hambletonian, a race for trotters, it is one of the two most coveted races for Standardbred horses." The horse race was apparently named after a well-known horse, not the song. None of the topics, including the song, are getting very large page views right now although I haven't checked yearly totals. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:39, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The well-known 1892 football trophy as well as the horse, born in 1875, were both named after the 1869 song which was part of that era's culture. The horse race, planned since 1937 and first run in 1946, was indeed named after the named-after-the-song horse. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 14:58, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Since the historical game and its trophy, as well as the prominent and prominently rated race, have lasted this long under their own notable names and legacies, and the daily readers of the song haven't made it the dominant topic, leaving the disamb. page covers them all. Would be nice to have a page on the horse too (now a Big Red link). Randy Kryn (talk) 21:41, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
 * This Harness Racing Museum entry probably has enough detail to create Little Brown Jug's article and, if someone with access to Newspapers.com and / or NewspaperArchive wanted to devote the time for digital clipping of a few contemporary racing accounts, we would be all set (at least as far as the late 19th-century horse is concerned). —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 00:50, 30 June 2020 (UTC)


 * The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Dirt Lil
I was born in 1971 and grew up learning this melody with different words sung to it:

Dirty Lil, Dirty Lil Lives on top of Garbage Hill Never washes, never will (hawk, spit) Dirty Lil!

Other verses can be found here: https://campsongs.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/dirty-lil/

I heard the Glenn Miller recording and only then realized that the song that I had learned as a kid had stolen its melody from a much older song. There may be many others who might look up "dirty Lil" on wikipedia. Perhaps it would be beneficial to include something about "Dirty Lil" in the Little Brown Jug article so they would learn the source of the melody. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.128.192.32 (talk) 22:46, 25 February 2021 (UTC)