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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[cattitude.livejournal.com]

We had a variant on the standard:

There's a place in France
Do the hootchie-kootchie dance
There's a hole in the wall
Where the men can see it all.

We also had this odd one:

I'm a Persian cat.
I'm a lovely persian cat.
My face is like macaroni,
My tail is long and bony.

This was up in Poughkeepsie.

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[cattitude.livejournal.com]

Woops! First line should be "All the girls in France"