Talk:The Song That Never Ends
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Well, I did a few checks. All of the quoted appearances of the song use "The Song that Never Ends", or some variation thereof. (I'm pretty sure about Lamb Chop's Play-Along - though I'm relying on the memories of children, they're the ones who would know.) Most of the references on the Wiki still point to "...Never Ends". Based on this, I'm going to move the page back to "...Never Ends", and note the other as a variation. - Scooter 19:09, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm 100% certain that on Lamb Chop's Play-Along, they sang "this is the song that doesn't end." I watched that show constantly as a teenager (yes, I watched a kid's show, so sue me). I found a CD on Amazon.com from the TV show -- it doesn't have an official tracklist posted since it appears to be out of print, but both the user reviews identify it as "The Song That Doesn't End." It may be a variation of the possibly better-known "...Never Ends," but that's still what they were singing and I'd be willing to bet any amount of money on it. --Lazylisa 16:04, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Are the lyrics copyrighted or public domain?
It is against Wikipedia policy to include copyrighted lyrics of a song in any article. Can anyone confirm that the two sets of lyrics (in particular the one used for the Shari Lewis TV show) are public domain? If not, they may need to be removed. 23skidoo 15:14, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
Isn't recursive? How is it any less recursive than "The Song That Never Ends?" Recury 01:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] A Hundred Bottles of Beer On The Wall
This song can be adapted to "never end." If one changes the song to "A Quintillion Bottles Of Beer On The Wall," singing the song continuously would take about 475 TRILLION years (give or take several billion). Given current cosmological theories, the universe would collapse upon itself (The Big Crunch), or all of the matter would be Iron 59 (no more matter could be converted into energy) and all the energy in the universe would be "internal energy," thus creating a condition where further entropy increase is impossible. Hence, the universe would end before the song would, and in effect the song would "never end." Weyandt 19:06, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
