Rig-a-jig-jig, it's Dominic the Donkey

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Pepino the christmas mouse?

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Another one I haven't heard in 20 years.

"Pepino, oh you little mouse,
Oh won't you go away
Find yourself another house
to run around and play

You scare my girls
You eat my cheese
You even drink my wine
I try so hard to catch you
But you trick me all the time"

Lou Monte! He may have done a Christmas one with Pepino (sounds vaguely familiar), but it wasn't on his Greatest Hits album, so my parents didn't play it 700 times a day.

As far as Dominic the Donkey goes, WCCM (800 on your AM dial) in Lawrence, MA, used to play it a lot at Christmas time, back when Lawrence had a large Italian-American population. Lawrence has changed a lot in 20 years. It's still an immigrant town--only now it's Latino instead of Western Euro.

They don't play it any more, so I never hear it any more.