Silly songs

[beetiger]

More on the details of old family movies later, but for now, a childhood song question:

There's a tune which I think sometimes gets called "Arabian Song", the one that usually gets used in cartoons to denote snake charming, with the rhythm "NaNa Naa Naa Naa, NaNa NaNa NaNa Naa". The lyrics I learned for it as a kid started "All the girls in France..." and were rather bizarre.

If you know what I'm talking about, and you have lyrics you sang as a kid, please post them, together with where you grew up. I get the impression that this is one that has had a lot of regional variation, and I am curious.

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[supersocks.livejournal.com]

As learned in the Hudson Valley:

There's a place in France
where the naked ladies dance
and a hole in the wall
where the ??? see it all.

Sorry, can't remember all of that last line.

[aprivatefox.livejournal.com]

The Queensbury, NY variant (a bit north of the Hudson Valley) is similar:

There's a place in France
where the naked ladies dance
and a hole in the wall
where the men can see it all
but the ? don't care
'cause they're wearing underwear

(The ? is a one-syllable beat, and I think the word is "men," but it may be "girls," (which would make more sense but is not the clearer memory))

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[tyrantmouth.livejournal.com]

More or less the same version for me, growing up in Northern Virginia.

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[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Ditto, from NW Ohio.

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[lapis-lazuli.livejournal.com]

Same here, and Northern Virginia also.

Last two lines as I recall were

But the men don't care
'Cause the girls wear underwear.

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[chipuni.livejournal.com]

That's also what I learned in central New Jersey. Actually, a slight variant:

There's a place in France
where the naked ladies dance.
There's a hole in the wall
Where the men can see it all.