It's taken me a while, but I've "collected" over 100 versions of this song and its obsolete relative, "Snapoo," most of them fragmentary, mostly from printed references. If it's in a song book, in Mudcat, or on the Net, I've almost certainly found it. (That includes the song about "The Fart," which BTW I haven't been able to date before the 1960s; also have the rugby song about "Yo-ho, yo ho!" to tune of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home.")

Does anybody know any texts or verses not already in the 'Cat learned from oral tradition? That includes anything with a refrain ike "hinky-dinky parlee voo," "inky-pinky," etc., or "snapoo," "skiboo," or similar.

Somebody's grandfather must have passed something on from World War I, no? PM me if you'd prefer.