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Inter-library loan is, eventually, going to provide me with a copy of that music hall song of sadly not immortal fame, "With My Little Wigger-Wagger In My Hand" (sometimes seen as "Wiggle-Waggle"), by (Fred) Earl, (Frank) Carter, and (Gilbert) Wells. Yes, the lyrics are about as sophisticated as the title suggests:

As I walked along the wire with my coat on fire
And my little wigger-wagger in my hand

Ah! My childhood inheritance.

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I would also like to know the childhood associations. Though when I was about four my dad used to put me on his shoulders and stomp around the farm singing a song that I swear went "off we go together, horny man and sir, never mind the weather..." and I can't remember any more. Googling for that one is really not a good idea.

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Now that sounds familiar. But I think I am thinking of a recording of The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, on 45rpm vinyl, belonging to my mother, which was interspersed with songs such as the following:

Underneath the old puss-cat,
You and I together,
Facing any weather,
Talking of this and that,
Underneath the old puss-cat.

(This, obviously, when Peter and Benjamin are trapped in the upturned basket which the cat is sitting upon.)

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I don't like Beatrix Potter but the song sounds good.

(Dress animals up in clothes fine, if you then let them behave like people. Dress them up in clothes and then have them still eat eachother is just warped. But I am in a minority.)