The Thing* {"Get out of here with your [Boom Boom Boom] before I call a cop"} has the form of The Farm Servant ["And there was I with me [Boom Boom Boom] so a-courting we fell straightway"], and echoed the Lincolnshire Poacher tune; and I have always suspected was inspired by them.

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*"The Thing" is a hit novelty song by Charles Randolph Grean which received much airplay in 1950.
The song was recorded by Phil Harris on October 13, 1950