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Yea, you should jump on the bandwagon with us chance

I wonder what the origin of the word bandwagon is

Yea, it sounds a bit interesting now that you mention it....

Look it up for me?

I'm a bit busy, gotta feed the cat and then.... OK I'm just lazy, sorry.

Fine, give me a min...

Bandwagon

One of the more frequent questions to this site's discussion forum has been where the phrase jump on the bandwagon comes from. The confusion stems from the fact that the phrase survives into the 21st century while bandwagons are long gone.

In 19th and early 20th century America, a bandwagon was exactly what it sounds like, a wagon, usually horse-drawn, which carried a musical band. Bandwagons were used in circuses, to lead parades, and at political rallies. Hence to join or jump on the bandwagon was to follow the crowd, and in a political context with the connotation that one was there for the entertainment and excitement of the event, rather than from deep or firm conviction.

The first known use of the term bandwagon is from 1855 in P.T. Barnum's Life:

At Vicksburg we sold all our land conveyances excepting four horses and the "band wagon."

Use of a bandwagon as a metaphor for a political campaign dates to at least 1884, when the magazine Puck published a cartoon depicting Chester A. Arthur driving a bandwagon full of presidential hopefuls.

The familiar phrase first appears in an 1899 letter by Theodore Roosevelt:

When I once became sure of one majority they rumbled over each other to get aboard the band wagon.

(Updated: 20 June 2003; Sources: Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition and Safire's New Political Dictionary.

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Dude! I seriously need to get on the bandwagon bandwagon, that sounds like fun

so is it one word or two?

Not sure but I like bandwagon myself

I'm gonna start trying to get people to get on the bandbuggy

<stamp> approved </stamp>

So wanna join me and my rag tag band of hopefuls in the world's premier bandbuggy?

I'm so there.

We should build one in world!

Oh! An autonomous one at that!

Awesome! A randomly roaming band buggy going gridmapping while waiting for further directions dude!

I like your style kid

verse 1

It's not another song 'bout whats right or whats wrong
But it'll make your brain hurt if you think too long
So disillusiuoned 'bout the things that you can't see
You've come to the conclusion you know how it all should be
You're not the only one who lives in this world
It don't revolve around you tho you think it should twirl
Open up you eyes and see the road ahead
Before you burn all your bridges and your rivers flow red

chorus

Heavens up above are falling
...This holocaust is in your nimd
The ground begins to shake around me
...Which path to choose I hope I find
The fires down below they call me
...Please help me find what is right inside
The world all around is dying
...I hope the truth will be my guide

verse 2

Well you trip and you stone even when you're alone
And you hear the reaper laughing when you pick up the phone
You run and you hide but he's always there
Hiding deep inside, maybe this time you should care
Take a look around take a look at yourself
Time for you to stop hating, maybe time that you help
Don't beat a dead horse, you're just wasting your time
Tho we're willing to help, you must use your own dime