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....

We were obviously very sheltered in my school in the 90s cause it was:

"Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and joker got away, hey!"

We also sang the following to the addams family tune:

"The addams family started when uncle fester farted, he farted through the keyhole and paralysed the cat, the cat got so excited, it shouted Man United and Man United shouted The Addams family"

I don't know why we sung a Manchester United football chant in Northern Ireland but go off lol.

Uncle Billy lost his Willy on the M5 motorway. Somerset, 90s kid!

Ditto! Essex late 80s early 90s

60/70s

We three kings of Orient are, trying to smoke a rubber cigar,
It imploded, then exploded and they shot up to the star

I'm Popeye the sailor man
I live in a caravan
I opened the door and fell through the floor

This version for me too 1980s/90s.

Uncle Billy lost his Willy, north west 60s 🤣

A really rude one accompanied by pointing

Milk, milk
Lemonade
Round the corner chocolate's made

"Jingle bells Batmman smells,
Robin flew away,
Lost his pants in the middle of France,
And found them in Bombay...HEY!"

Born 82 so late 80's early 90's.

Jack and Jill went to the dairy
Jack pulled out his big and hairy
Jill said oh what a whopper
Let's go back and do it proper

Brownies, mid 80s 🤣

I knew it in primary school, late 80s

We sang 'Playtex Bra' in our version...north west, 60s, which was the 'height' of the Playtex Bra I think 🤣

Oh yea, this too

our was "Good king Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen, a snowball hit him on the snout and made it all uneven, brightly shone his conk that night for the pain was cru-el, til the doctor came in sight, ridiing on a mule (mew-oo-el)

Mary had a little lamb
She thought it rather silly
She threw it up into the air and caught it by the willy

😳
London 1970s

It only struck me recently, when listening to my Glaswegian child sing the "wrong" version that mine, from my childhood in Dundee, wasn't universal. I mean obviously it wasn't cos it went
"Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin ran away. The batmobile has lost its wheel and it landed in the Tay"
Referring obviously to the River Tay which my 5yr old has no idea exists 😁

Can you tie 'em in a knot
can you tie 'em in a bow
can you throw 'em over your shoulder like a regimental soldier...

The Opies did a lot of research into this sort of stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childlore
Steve Roud wrote a book on it 'The Lore of the Playground'
I find it really fascinating. How things spread via children's oral traditions.
Maybe a suggestion for a book to go in your Christmas stocking ** ? Great topic.
I can only remember singing the 1st couple of lines, no memory of knickers, willies or wheels off the Batmobile (Derbyshire, 1980's).
I'll ask my sister she works in a school she could see what her small people have to say.

Christopher Robin at the foot of the stairs
No body loves him, nobody cares,
Blood on his fingers
Fur on the mat
Christopher robin has murdered the cat

Late 70s London again.

We used to sing Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away. Kojak lost his lollypop and bought a milky way, hey!

Also used to sing 'da na da na Batman! Running down the motorway, lorry comes the other way, Flatman!

This was late 70s/early 80s.

London 1970s

My uncle Billy
had a 10 foot willy
and he showed it to the girl next door

She thought it was a snake
so she hit it with a rake
and it ain’t 10 foot no more

Do your ears hang low?

Taught to me at age 21 by a friend. I had never heard it before. We were teaching/volunteering in India, so some Keralan 20 somethings will also now know the more respectable version as we featured it!

@twentysevendresses

Also a 60's child, we used to sing 'You'll never get to heaven in a Playtex bra, 'cos a Paytex bra won't stretch that far'

I think there was an advert at the time promoting the stretchiness of Playtex bras 😀

Mrs White
had a fright
in the middle of the night

Saw a ghost
eating toast
half way up a lamp post

I had the same version, 90s. London/ Kent