Silly songs
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beetigerMore 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.
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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Date: 2004-02-09 02:41 pm (UTC)Growing up in the 70's in a Western suburb of Chicago, I heard it as
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.
I have a vague feeling that there should be more to it, but none of the extra couplets people have mentioned sound familiar.