Mademoiselle from Armentières

"Inky Pinky" was a Scottish children's name for parsnip and potato cakes, but it has been suggested that an onomatopoeic reference to the sound of bed springs is more likely a soldier's ribald derivation.

The words told of the encounter of an innkeeper's daughter, named Mademoiselle de Bar-le-Duc, with two German officers.

There are newspaper articles in Australia and New Zealand which indicate that the original words were composed by an Australian called Cecil Winter.

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22356112 The song Mademoiselle from Armentieres, as known in WW1 was penned by Cecil H. Winter in 1915 and 1916, during his time in England and France fighting with the kiwis.

Mademoiselle from Armentières was the name of a 1926 British film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Estelle Brody.

Mademoiselle From Armentieres was the title of a 1927 espionage, thriller novel by Cecil Street, writing under the name John Rhode.

[4] During World War II the comic duo Flanagan and Allen had a hit with "If a Grey Haired Lady Says 'How's Your Father?'

"Three German Officers Crossed the Rhine" is a song with a much more ribald set of lyrics, popular on rugby tours but sung to the same tune or to that of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".

[6] A reworked version known as the "fart song" or as "an old lady of 92" was popular in schools, particularly in the UK, with lyrics celebrating a flatulent journey including Bristol and Rome.

[7] A reworked version of the melody was used in the Israeli songwriter Haim Hefer's song "בחולות" ("Bacholot" or "Bakholot", "In the Sands"), best known for its performance by the singer Yossi Banai.

The song consist of six stanzas telling of a tendency among the narrator's family males to take out the beloveds into, and conceive their children in, the titular sands.

[8][9] In America, most recognize the melody with completely different lyrics, as the theme song for the character Clarabell the Clown on the children's TV series Howdy Doody.

She had four chins, her knees would knock, And her face would stop a cuckoo clock, Hinky, dinky, parley-voo.

She could guzzle a barrel of sour wine, And eat a hog without peeling the rind, Hinky, dinky, parley-voo.

The MPs think they won the war, Standing guard at the café door, Hinky, dinky, parley-voo.