"Heigh-Ho" is a song from Walt Disney

Walt Disney

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...

's 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full...

, written by Frank Churchill

Frank Churchill

Frank Churchill was an American composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, including "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come"...

 (music) and Larry Morey

Larry Morey

Larry Morey was an American lyricist, who was responsible for co-writing some of the most successful songs in Disney movies of the 1930s and 1940s, including "Heigh-Ho", "Some Day My Prince Will Come", and "Whistle While You Work"...

 (lyrics). It is sung by the group of seven dwarfs as they work at a mine

Mining

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 with diamond

Diamond

In mineralogy, diamond is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is less stable than graphite, but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at ambient conditions...

s and rubies

Ruby

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, and is one of the best-known songs in the film.

The melodic theme

Theme (music)

In music, a theme is the material, usually a recognizable melody, upon which part or all of a composition is based.-Characteristics:A theme may be perceivable as a complete musical expression in itself, separate from the work in which it is found . In contrast to an idea or motif, a theme is...

 for "Heigh-Ho" might have been inspired by Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

's composition for piano "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 work Album for the Young

Album für die Jugend

Album for the Young , Op. 68, was composed by Robert Schumann in 1848 for his three daughters. The album consists of a collection of 43 short works. Unlike the Kinderszenen, they are suitable to be played by children or beginners. The second part, starting at Nr...

, Opus 68.

The other Dwarf Chorus songs are "Bluddle-Uddle-Um-Dum" (eventually omitted from the film) and "The Silly Song

The Silly Song (1937 song)

The Silly Song is a song from Walt Disney's animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sung by Otis Harlan, Billy Gilbert, Pinto Colvig, and Scotty Mattraw. This features an instrument septet. The dwarfs yodel in this song....

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Donald Duck

Donald Duck

Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald is most...

 sings this song in "The Riveter".

The group Mannheim Steamroller

Mannheim Steamroller

Mannheim Steamroller is an American music group founded by Chip Davis and Jackson Berkey, known primarily for its modern recordings of Christmas music. The group has sold 28 million albums in the U.S. alone.-Beginnings:...

 covered the song on their 1999 album, Mannheim Steamroller Meets the Mouse

Mannheim Steamroller Meets the Mouse

Mannheim Steamroller Meets the Mouse: Unique Musical Creations Based on Disney Songs is a music album by Mannheim Steamroller, released by Walt Disney Records and American Gramaphone in 1999 on CD and DVD.-Track listing:# "Chim Chim Cher-ee" – 2:31...

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In the 1988 Disney animated film Oliver & Company

Oliver & Company

Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated film in which a homeless kitten named Oliver joins a gang of dogs to survive on the 1980s New York City streets. The film was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and became the twenty-seventh animated feature released in the Walt Disney Animated...

Tito sings "Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, it's off to work we go" when he is rescuing Jenny.

The song was also featured in the 1979 stage adaption

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (musical)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a musical with music by Frank Churchill and Jay Blackton, lyrics by Larry Morey and Joe Cook, book by Joe Cook, based on the 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs....

 of the 1937 animated musical film.

On the 2011 album V-Rock Disney, which features visual kei

Visual Kei

is a movement among Japanese musicians, that is characterized by the use of make-up, elaborate hair styles and flamboyant costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous aesthetics. Some sources state that visual kei refers to a music genre, or to a sub-genre of Japanese rock, with its...

 artists covering Disney songs, Cascade

Cascade (band)

Cascade is a Japanese visual kei rock band, with a sound not typical of other visual kei bands, in that it is strongly influenced by new wave music. The band formed in 1993 and disbanded in August 2002, but six years later the band reunited and released a new album in 2009, Vivo.Cascade's song...

 covered this song.

In other media

The TV series The Electric Company parodied the song twice, both in Snow White related skits; in one, "Snow Ball and the Six Dwarfs", the dwarfs (five of whom have ly adverbial names and the sixth is called "Doc") enter singing "Ho-Hi, Ho-Hi". Another, a "Director" skit in which the Director is trying to direct a movie called "Snow White and the Three Dwarfs", the dwarfs sing "Heigh-Ho" as an introduction song used to start the show and introduce the dwarfs (Happy always got his name wrong, calling himself "Henry", "Harry" or "Harvey").

In World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft

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, when playing as a male Dwarf, characters can tell a joke in which the character will sing the song. "Heigh-ho, heigh-ho... ugh, second verse, same as the first."

The Snow White sequence of the Simpsons

The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...

episode, "Four Great Women and a Manicure

Four Great Women and a Manicure

"Four Great Women and a Manicure" is the twentieth episode of the twentieth season of The Simpsons. It was broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on May 10, 2009. It is the first Simpsons episode in history to have four acts instead of the usual three...

" features the seven dwarfs (based on Simpsons characters) singing another parody of the Heigh-Ho song, "Ho-Hi, Ho-Hi".

One of the most famous scenes in the 1984 movie Gremlins

Gremlins

Gremlins is a 1984 American horror comedy film directed by Joe Dante, released by Warner Bros. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature—called a Mogwai—as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters. It was followed by a sequel,...

has the Gremlins watching the "Heigh-Ho" scene in a theater in Kingston Falls, and singing along.

Tom Waits recorded a version of "Heigh-Ho" for the 1988 A&M record Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. The song was included on the "Bastards" Disc from his 2006 album Orphans

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards is a limited edition three CD set by Tom Waits, released by the ANTI- label on November 17, 2006 in Europe and on November 21, 2006 in the United States.The set is a collection of 24 rare and 30 brand new songs...

. The song was also used in a 2010 Hershey's Kisses commercials, Biobest vitality commercials in Canada, and the Levi Strauss & Co "Go Forth" ad campaign centered on Braddock, Pennsylvania

Braddock, Pennsylvania

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In the Discworld

Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy book series by English author Sir Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin. The books frequently parody, or at least take inspiration from, J. R. R....

 novel series, the song — and several bawdy variations — is only obliquely referred to as the Heigh-Ho Song. A much enjoyed (although self-admitted very stereotypical) song, it's also one of the few popular dwarf songs not about gold.

The scene was also featured as a background during the closing credits in the 1996 fantasy-horror TV show "Liham ng Gabi".

A version of the song by Bunny Berigan and his Orchestra

Bunny Berigan

Rowland Bernard "Bunny" Berigan was an American jazz trumpeter who rose to fame during the swing era, but whose virtuosity and influence were shortened by a losing battle with alcoholism that ended in his early death at age 33. He composed the jazz instrumentals "Chicken and Waffles" and "Blues"...

 is featured in a recent Levi's commercial entitled "We Are All Workers".

In the last scene of Scared Shrekless the song can be heard as the dwarves silhouettes are seen on on a rock as the dwarves walk along shortly before they are egged by Shrek and the gang

• Brian Wilson
  Brian Wilson
  Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...
  
   covered it in a medley on his album In the Key of Disney, which was released on October 25, 2011.