Uncle Billy lost his willy

[ThreeLocusts]

Jingle bells, Batman smells/Robin flew away/uncle Billy lost his willy/on the motorway...
(sung to the tune of the Xmas song)

it's one of a handful of rude rhymes my children learned early on in primary school. This was in the Southeast in the 2010s, but a friend who grew up in Manchester in the 1970s said he knew this rhyme too.

I'd just like to get a sense of how widespread and how old it is. Has it been around since the first Batman TV series of the late 50s (I think)? And do you have other examples of disrespectful children's rhymes featuring pop cultural references? Or rude rhymes full stop? I find this one oddly joyful....

1980s for me, but it was 'jingle bells, batman smells, robin laid an egg, father Christmas lost his knickers on the milky way, hey!'

We did not do the Uncle Billy bit, we were much tamer: The Batmobile lost its wheel on the M4 motorway.
ETA late 70s early 80s

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away
The Batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away HEY!

(early 90s, NE Scotland)

Uncle Billy lost his willy on the m4 motorway. South West, 1980

Tom Scott did a whole video regarding the jingle bells song variants on You Tube.

Uncle Billy here. Northwest in the 70s/ 80s

This version - 1980s, SE England at the time.

Uncle Billy lost his Willy on the M4 motorway- hey!

SW late 70s

I’ve never heard of the Uncle Billy version, this was what we sang. Yorkshire, mid-90’s.

This reminds me of the episode of Brassic when they get locked in the morgue freezer and stand arguing over which version of ‘ip, dip’ is the right one

Kojack lost his lollipop and got a milky way was ours (1970s glasgow)

We sang "Jingle bells, Batman smells/Robin flew away" in the 70s in South London. I didn't hear the "uncle Billy lost his willy/on the motorway" until my kids went to primary school from 2008 onwards. I found it funny.

Billy was Jimmy in my patch of the n.e. but otherwise - the same.

jingle bells
batman smells
robin flew away
he done a fart
behind a cart
and it blew up the IRA

1970s/80s rural SE Ulster

Bathirl lost her knickers on the M1 motorway!

1970s Derbyshire

We sang "Jesus Christ Super star, wears frilly knickers and a purple bra" in South London in the 70s. I think the first performance of the musical was in 71 and we sang it late 70s

Or even batgirl!

jingle bells, batman smells, robin laid an egg, the Batmobile, lost its wheel, and the joker got away, hey!

Essex, 1990s

Yeah we had the uncle billy lost his Willy on the motorway. I'm born 1976 and I remember it early 90s if not before. Maybe 80s

“Father Christmas lost his whiskers on the motorway, hey!”

Also “There was a young man from Brazil, who took an atomic pill, his bum backfired, his heart retired and his willy shot over the hill”.

Edited to say South East of England in the 1980’s.

We sang the Kojack lost his lollipop version too.

However....we had a different uncle Billy rhyme:

My uncle Billy had a 10 foot willy
And he showed it to the lady next door
She thought it was a snake and hit it with a rake
And now its only 2 foot 4

He obviously gets around that uncle Billy and his willy!

"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away

The Batmobile has lost its wheels and can't come out to play"

W Midlands 1960s.

Same place and decade

"We 3 Kings of Orient are
One in a taxi, one in a car
One on a scooter bibbing his hooter
Following yonder star"

Cars were a big deal in Birmingham back then in more ways than one!

I had the same version - East Midlands, 1980's/early 90's.

Santa Claus lost his drawers on the M1 motorway, hey!

Grimsby in the 80s

Jingle bells, Batman smells.
Robin flew away.
Kojak lost his lollipop.
On a one horse open sleigh. Hey.....

Or someone lost their knickers .... Line 3

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away. Batgirl lost her underwear on the M6 motorway!
West Midlands... 1970s :)