Wednesday, April 18, 2012

There's more to "Heigh Ho-Heigh-Ho, It's Off To Work We Go" than meets the eye

Abundant mysteries are to be mined within this deceptively sprightly tune which continues to confound after lo, these many years.

Among the many questions that linger:

Why do The Seven Dwarfs sing, "it's off to work we go" when they are clearly coming from work? Is this merely a case of confused prepositions or was Uncle Walt behind the curtain, urging us to look more deeply into the inner workings of the diamond mine industry? If we did, would we finally learn how Doc, Happy, Sneezy, Dopey,Grumpy,­ Bashful and Sleepy were able to churn out one perfectly formed diamond after another - directly out of the ground?

Further, inquiring minds might ask, why, after locking up the mine, does Dopey hangs the key next to the door? Even assuming, arguendo, that he's just being Dopey, just who was it that put the key peg on the wall in the first place?

And why is it that Dopey is the only Dwarf without a razor?

And so on and so forth and tra-la-la-triddle-dee-dee.
HL 4/18/12



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