Lydia the Tattooed Lady Lydia the Tattooed Lady "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" is a 1939 song written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen. It first appeared in the Marx Brothers movie "At the Circus" (1939) and became one of Groucho Marx's signature tunes. The complex lyrics by Harburg – with clever rhymes such as "Lydia/encyclopedia" and "Amazon/pajamas on" – were inspired by W. S. Gilbert. Harburg made many contemporary references to topical personalities such as Grover Whalen, who opened the 1939 New York World's Fair. Among the items, persons, and scenes tattooed on Lydia's body are the Battle of Waterloo (on her back), "The
Chicken Man (theme tune) replaced by a re-recorded version from 1988-1989. After being replaced by a completely different theme tune, it made a reappearance in the final series of "Grange Hill" in 2008. An entirely different arrangement of "Chicken Man" was also used as the theme to early series of the British quiz show "Give Us a Clue", despite the fact that it was already being used on "Grange Hill". It lasted as the theme tune from 1979 until 1982, when a new producer/director commissioned an entirely new theme tune. Most recently, the tune has been used as a jingle for the El Árbol