Lums Notes Of Desert Of Dijridoos Kirby and the Rainbow Curse (2015, "More Dig and Dash" (taken directly from the anime) and "Evade Dig and Dash") Cuphead (2017, Pyramid Peril) Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) Television Andy Bernard sings a variation with a sitar in the "Moroccan Christmas" episode of season 5 of The Office. Tom Ellis as 'Lucifer' plays a part of 'The Streets of Cairo' on the piano in season 4 episode 5. Film In Charles Lamont's 1932 short film War Babies, the first film in the Baby Burlesks series, the song is briefly used while Shirley Temple's character Charmaine is dancing around in Buttermilk Pete's Cafe. In Laurel and Hardy's Sons of the Desert (1933), it is heard briefly in a belly dancer scene at the beginning of the convention. In The Great Ziegfeld (1936), which won the Best Picture Oscar in 1937, the song is heard as the backdrop to the "Little Egypt" attraction on the Midway of the World's Columbian Exposition run by Billings, a character portrayed by Frank Morgan and loosely based on Sol Bloom. It is heard in the beginning of Patrice Leconte's short film "Le laboratoire de l'angoisse" (1971). In Emir Kusturica's 1993 movie Arizona Dream, the tune is being played several times with accordion by Grace. Children's culture The tune is used for a 20th-century American children's song with – like many unpublished songs of child folk culture – countless variations as the song is passed from child to child over considerable lengths of time and geography, the one constant being that the versions are almost always smutty. One variation, for example, is: There's a place in France Where the ladies wear no pants But the men don't care 'cause they don't wear underwear. or a similar version: There's a place in France Where the naked ladies dance There's a hole in the wall Where the boys can see it all. Another World War II-era variation is as follows: When your mind goes blank And you're dying for a wank And Hitler's playing snooker with your balls In the German nick They hang you by your dick And put dirty pictures on the walls. See also Oriental riff - similar musical motif, often associated with China Italian riff References External links "Streets of Cairo" sheet music in the Levy Collection, via Jscholarship Traditional children's songs Stereotypes 1895 songs Songs written by