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Uncle Billy lost his willy

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ThreeLocusts · 01/10/2024 16:58

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....

OP posts:
x2boys · 01/10/2024 20:25

Noodge · 01/10/2024 20:10

Does anyone remember
Willly was a watchdog sitting on the grass, along came a bee and stung him up the AS
K no questions tell no lies, I saw a dirty man doing up his flies are funny, flies are silly, I saw a black (!) Man playing with his
Willy was a watchdog sitting on the (starts again)?

Our version was
Willie waa a watch dog sitting in the grass along came a bumble bee who stung him in the
Ask no questions tell no lies have you ever seen a China man doing up his
Flies are a nuisance bees are worse and this is the end of my silly little verse

RedOnyx · 01/10/2024 20:25

miltown · 01/10/2024 17:12

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!

Oh, I'd forgotten this one. Ours was "My friend Billy" though.

IceandIndigo · 01/10/2024 20:25

“Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away. Wonder Woman lost her tits, on the motorway.”

New Zealand in the 80s.

Bigearringsbigsmile · 01/10/2024 20:26

Whst do you do when you want to have a poo, In an English country, gaaaarden.
Pull down your pants and fertilise the ants, in an English country gaaaarden

Bigearringsbigsmile · 01/10/2024 20:26

Rigatone · 01/10/2024 19:49

He farted through the keyhole
And paralysed the cat

Yes!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Zigzagga · 01/10/2024 20:28

What about

My name's chubby
My mum's chubby
My dad's chubby
And I'm chubby

One day I was riding along on my dad's bike
When he went so fast my face went face back

S.E 90s

It was always said in a northern accent but when I went to uni and chatting to my friends (northern) they said they did it in a Scottish accent!

Bigearringsbigsmile · 01/10/2024 20:28

Eee by gum
Let your belly touch your bum,
Let your tits hang low
Let them wobble to and fro
Nelly letcyour belly touch mine

moshmoshi · 01/10/2024 20:29

We sang that exact version growing yp in Wales in the early 80s - it's a classic - no wonder it has lasted so long!

MrsJoker · 01/10/2024 20:30

Cluborange666 · 01/10/2024 17:08

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

We sang that in Lurgan back in the day too 😂

JudgeJ · 01/10/2024 20:31

WinterAconite · 01/10/2024 17:08

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

I remember that one and the Uncle Willy one I heard in the early 70s if not a bit earlier and it was the 'on the motorway' version

insidenumber9 · 01/10/2024 20:33

WandaFishy99 · 01/10/2024 17:52

I got a smacked bottom from mum for singing the following in earshot of a posh neighbour:
I'm Popeye the sailor man
I live in a jar of jam
The jam is so sticky
It sticks to my dicky
I'm Popeye the sailor man

We used to say in the mid 80s London

"I'm popeye the sailor man
I live in a caravan
and when I gets silly
I pulls out my Willy
I'm popeye the sailor man!

Hyperbowl · 01/10/2024 20:34

StolenChanel · 01/10/2024 17:23

My Uncle Billy lost his willy along the motorway in London in the late 90s/early 00s

Edited

Same wording and timescale but SW England.

caringcarer · 01/10/2024 20:34

WinterAconite · 01/10/2024 17:08

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

We sang wears frilly knickers and a Playtex bra.

RedOnyx · 01/10/2024 20:35

scatterbrain3000 · 01/10/2024 17:36

In 1990s Essex, after Robin flew away he:

Landed on a football pitch
And didn't know how to play

Meanwhile, same time, same place, it was:

Little Donkey, Little Donkey
On the M25
Got run over, by a Rover
Is he dead or alive?
Ring out those bells tonight
Ambulance! Ambulance!

But by the time I was in secondary school in the early 2000s, it was a Skoda, not a Rover. Sad indicator of the state of the British car industry.

Oh this has just reminded me:

(To the tune of the Flintstones)
Skoda, buy a Skoda, you might even get the engine free.
Skoda, buy a Skoda, it might even pass its MOT.
One day when you think you're going fast,
Then you'll see a snail whizzing past.
Skoda, but a Skoda, down the Oxfam shop for 99p.

Around 1998 or 1999, N.E England by that time.

VisitationRights · 01/10/2024 20:36

70s/80s North America
jingle bells, Batman smells
robin laid an egg
batmobile lost a wheel
and joker ran away

Lairymary · 01/10/2024 20:37

We three King's of Orient Are. One in a taxi, one in a car. One in a dustbin, being disgusting, wearing a ladies bra. Oh, star of wonder, star of light, star to set your bum alight, Westwood leading through the ceiling....... can't remember the rest.

JudgeJ · 01/10/2024 20:37

UrsulaBelle · 01/10/2024 17:28

We three kings of Trafalgar Square
Selling ladies’ underwear
So fantastic
No elastic,
Only 5 Bob a pair
Oh, oh,
Star of wonder,
Star of light,
Fill your pants with dynamite,
Light the fuse and off you go,
Round the world to Mexico,

Edited

We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we travelled afar
John in a trolley sucking a lolly
Following Ringo Starr

Probably the 60s, NW

wavyleaf · 01/10/2024 20:38

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away
The Batmobile lost a wheel, on the motorway

(no mention of which motorway, this was in the 80s)

YeFaerieBean · 01/10/2024 20:38

We three kings of Leicester Square
Selling ladies’ underwear
How fantastic, no elastic
Only thruppence a pair

Ohoh
Star of Wonder etc.

insidenumber9 · 01/10/2024 20:40

Anyone remember this filthy rhyme we used to sing in early 80s london..

(Insert names of choice..for example..
Johnny and Mary went to the dairy
Johnny got out his hairy canary
Mary said wow what a whopper
Let's go home and do it proper!

More verses but can't remember!

There was also
In the south of France where the naked ladies dance
There's a crack in the wall and the men can see it all!

Gross as we were in primary school!

BattleSymphony · 01/10/2024 20:41

Lost his willy here too, 90's SE.

I also used to sing this when I was young.
Olly olly olly, tits in a trolley, balls in a biscuit tin. Sitting on the grass with his finger up his arse, playing with his ding a ling ling.

Frozenberries · 01/10/2024 20:45

Uncle billy lost his Willy on the m6 motorway where I was in the 90s (north west)

Dunnoburt · 01/10/2024 20:46

Anyone remember "Daisy Daisy give me your answer do.... I'm so crazy my balls are turning blue" ..... it was Robin laid an egg and on the M4 motorway for me growing up in Bicester 1990s

Dunnoburt · 01/10/2024 20:47

And omg come on you all must have sang "Charlie had a Pigeon" 🤣🤣🤣

RedOnyx · 01/10/2024 20:47

CaveMum · 01/10/2024 18:09

Our version of the chorus was:

Glory, glory what a hell of a way to die,
With your left foot over your right foot,
And your right foot in your eye!
Glory, glory what a hell of a way to die,
And he ain’t gone jump no mo-oo-re!

We had

"Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
With a rifle up your backside and a bullet in your eye "
And the first verse was either "Our headmaster jumped off the school roof" or "our Prime minister jumped off the church roof ", no uncle Bulgaria.
Second verse: he landed on the pavement like a splodge of strawberry jam.
Heard in secondary school, S.E. England, 1996ish.

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