In Anstey, in Leicestershire, in the Hare and hounds, an old matelot called Skelly used to sing a version of 'My Home in Tennessee' which he had as the last line.

The Tattooed Lady

John Howson has this as a World War Two parody of 'My Home in Tennessee' and remarks that the original song was written by William Jerome and Walter Donaldson in 1915,. David Hill adds: "There always seemed to me to be a line or two missing from this song, after the 'Rising Sun' line - it doesn't quite seem to balance, somehow, but that is exactly what Ruby sang. Internal evidence suggests (to me, at any rate) that this parody may be military in origin, considering the setting (exotic dancer/foreign travel/naval (navel?) imagery etc. My old dad told me that the tune was 'My Home in Tennessee' after he heard me singing it in the bath one day, but I cannot trace a song by that title. I think he recalled a similar song from his RAF days."

'Twas down in gay Paree
I paid five francs to see
A great big French lady
Tattooed from head to knee
And on her jaaaaaaaaw
There was a great big man of war
And on her back was a Union Jack
So I paid five franc more

And on her threepenny bits
There was a row of battleships
And on her hot cross bun
There was a view of the rising sun
And to the left side of her kidney
Was a bird's eye view of Sydney
And round the corner,
The jolly 'orner,
I can't tell you what I saw!!