The Ants Go Marching One By One

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The Ants Go Marching One By One is a popular children's song, sung to the tune of the Irish anti-war song Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye. It may be derived through the American Civil War song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", which borrowed its tune from the Irish folk song. (The Ants Go Marching was subsequently also the ant army's marching song in the movie Antz.) Another commonly sung children's song is "The Animals go in Two by Two" (based around the Noah's Ark story) sung to the same melody.

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