Oh By Jingo!
"Oh By Jingo!", is a 1919 novelty song by Albert Von Tilzer with lyrics by Lew Brown.
The song was featured in the Broadway show "Linger [Longer Letty]", and became one of the biggest Tin Pan Alley hits of the post-World War I era.
While the song lyrics say it is set in "the land of San Domingo", no geographic nor anthropological accuracy is found nor intended in the silly lyrics, set in a generic "exotic" and "primitive" location. The song was much imitated over the next decade.
The song appeared several times in film and television: it was performed by Betty Hutton in the film Incendiary Blonde ; by Debbie Reynolds and Bobby Van as a specialty number in the Esther Williams MGM vehicle, Skirts Ahoy!; sung in the I Love Lucy TV show ; and sung by Hugh Laurie and several other cast members in the television version of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster.
The 1970 song "After All (David [Bowie song)|After All]" by David Bowie, from the album The [Man Who Sold the World (album)|The Man Who Sold the World] contains the repeated phrase 'Oh By Jingo' which is inspired by the song.