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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girls in france

[(Anonymous)]

In mid-50s: The girls in France/Do the hootchie kootchie dance/ and the dance they do/ (here is what I can't remember, and why I googled the first two lines, and how I found this string!) but it ends in "you." The one post about "costs a dollar ninety-two" rhymes well with my memory of "the dance they do." I wish I could remember that last line?