Ha. The first thing I did after posting was googled “Fur Elise ice cream truck” and found this.
The person who uploaded the video used the exact same word I did. Spooky. I knew I couldn’t be the only one weirded out by that.
That’s the standard tune here.
Bohemian Rhapsody?
And, what movie was that? :eek:
Wouldn’t be an ice cream truck if it didn’t play Greensleeves.
I got it! I got it! Reading it phonetically I thought “Hey, that’s the tune *Officer Joe Bolton *used to whistle at the beginning of the Little Rascals kids TV program in the mid 1950s”. Did a little research and came up with this: The Whistler and His Dog. Do I win an ice cream cone? 
AAAAAGH! Yes, this noise is the bane of my existence. I’ve never lived anywhere else with such a high saturation of ice cream trucks, but they are here practically hourly.
Might be The Band Played On, a popular 1890’s tune.
This is what ours plays.
Some of them play Turkey in the Straw and Pop Goes the Weasel, but the linked one is what I think of as ice cream truck music.
In various places around the English midlands and on holiday at various sea-side resorts in far flung parts of the country, I pretty much only heard one tune. Don’t know what it is, though. I was astonished when a youtube search didn’t turn it up and google came up with a lot of different results which weren’t it.
Fourtyfold, that is the one. “Boys and girls come out to play” would seem to be the title.
All other ice cream tunes are heretical.
Consider yourself lucky - I haven’t seen one for years. Ice cream trucks are banned in Des Moines (since 1967).
Our ice cream trucks have disappeared but this year we have homeless people instead. I hope they don’t start playing “Turkey in the Straw,” the quintessential ice cream truck tune.
Down here in Oz, back when I were a lad, it were Greensleeves.
I’ve heard that one a lot too, although so out of tune it’s hard to recognise as Boys and Girls Come Out to Play. The other one I hear a lot if Popeye the Sailor Man.
O Sole Mio is the most common one around here, a tune also used to advertise a popular brand of ice cream.
The only ice cream tune I’ve heard enough to think of as “traditional” is the Mister Softee jingle.
Hair on a G String?
It might be a fascinating thing to study the distribution of different tunes in different area. Or, it might not.
If 3 of them get together, they might go crazy and play a song about a giant ape …
then someone might do a mashup of them and have a single song that would annoy the urban dwellers of the world.