BTW, the familiar assertion that "MfA" is parody of Uhland's poem "The Landlady's Little Daughter" applies, if at all (long regarded as a masterpiece of German Romanticism) only to the tangentially related "German Officers" song, which predates World War I.

The number of public and literary figures who have noted their personal familiarity with the song include James Joyce, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Ernest Hemingway, William Roberts, Frederic Manning, Guy Chapman, Henry Williamson, Basil Rathbone, J. B. Priestly, Laurence Stallings, Everett Dirksen, Eric Partridge, John Brophy, David Jones, the Duke of Windsor, C. S. Lewis, John Dos Passos, Carl Sandburg, John Jacob Niles, Count Ciano, William Faulkner, Douglas MacArthur, Tennessee Williams, George Orwell, and of course the ballad hunters John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, who took two opportunities, more than a dozen years apart, to publish words and music.