Uh-oh. I think I mixed up the nonsense lines of a couple of folk songs.

The "Farmer's Curst Wife," IIRC, goes:
"A farmer was plowin' his fields one day,
Rightful, rightful itty fie day,
When the divil come up and to him he did say,
Right-fa-la, itty fie day, rightful, rightful, itty fie day. ..."

Now, dammit, where did the "nickity nackity noo noo" lines come from? Was it "The Wee Cooper Of Fife?"

Genie