The info is all here MrKnowitall’s ‘king Tut’,Nano’s 'Gypsie thing",Pixoids ‘hand motions’, ( see the walk like an egyptian thread) references to the 'snake (an asp?) it is obvious this is an authentic ancient Egyptian song." Oh the girls in Crete don’t wear sandals on their feet,and in their topless dress you can see their bouncing breasts." Ok another tune completly but do you remember, “Oh the ladies wear no pants in Pagopago, no the ladies wear no pants in pagopago,and since they wear no pants, they get chillblains when they dance, cause the ladie wear no pants in pagopago.”
“Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx
There’s a place in France
Where the naked ladies dance
There’s a hole in the wall
Where the boys can see it all
But the men don’t care
They just chew their underwear
The underwear that they chew
Costs a dollar ninety-two…
All but the last verse has appeared elsewhere on this thread. I wonder where the last two lines came from.
God is dead. -Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead. -God
Neitzsche is God. -Dead
The tune is at least as old as Showboat, which quotes it for “Little Egypt” at the Chicago Exposition. I suspect that Kern did not write it (he often quoted the tunes of other composers).
John W. Kennedy
“Compact is becoming contract; man only earns and pays.”
– Charles Williams
This is MY version, that I learned growing up, early eighties:
There’s a place in France
Where the ladies do a dance
And the dance they do
Is enough to kill a few
And the few they kill
Is enough to take a pill
And the pill they take
Is enough to kill a snake…
It was kind of an exercise in rhyming - and looking back, it was pretty lame. Another childhood memory tossed by the wayside…
All the girls in France
Do the hoochy-coochy dance!
And the way they shake
It could really kill a snake!
When the snake is dead,
They will tie it 'round their head!
I later dated a Frenchman (actually named "Jacques, amusingly enough) who told me that all the girls in France do indeed do the hoochy-coochy dance. But he didn’t recall any dead-snake tying going on.
Okay, I made a few mistakes on the version of the song that I posted. That’s what I get for copying and pasting.
There’s a place on Mars
Where the women smoke cigars.
And the kind they take
Is enough to kill a snake.
If the snakes don’t die,
Then they poke them in the eyes.
there’s a place in France where the naked ladies dance,
and a hole in the wall where the men can see it all" is all i can remember from when i was a kid in 1999. i remember seeing an old movie (maybe 60’s or 70’s) where women were belly dancing at night around a fire and men were looking through a peep hole in the fence. i don’t think that is where it came from (maybe even a Bond movie), but i always associate that movie clip with this lyric. i would be interested in to where this originated, if it was around the time of that movie.
there’s a place in France where the naked ladies dance,