 Not only the nationality of chatting Asians varies in the early records, but also their number.Thus, a version from Upper Silesia has ten, as well as another from Westphalia, has twenty "Japanesemen".The version featuring "Japanesemen" is still popular in some parts of Switzerland, and a particularly inventive variant attested in Ticino not only rounds off the song with a final yodel but has the Asians sitting on the street not with, but "without" a double bass.