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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:
RedOnyx · 01/10/2024 21:51

UnctuousUnicorns · 01/10/2024 21:40

Last line when we sang that (NW England, '70s) was:

"Oh, my God, it's dynamite!"

We had that version too. Also "is it blue or is it green? Oh my god it's plasticine" 🤷‍♀️

Notamum12345577 · 01/10/2024 21:53

5128gap · 01/10/2024 18:40

Our car had a choke late 80s. It was a little thing you pulled out to give the car a bit more fuel to get it started if it was struggling to fire up. Under no circumstances were you to leave the choke out or you'd 'flood' it and it wouldn't start at all.

And your dad who was teaching you to drive would tell you off! 😁

RedOnyx · 01/10/2024 21:53

YeFaerieBean · 01/10/2024 21:44

Donald Duck,
Did some muck,
On the kitchen floor
Mum, Mum
Wipe his bum
Before he does some more!

Mickey Mouse
In his house
Pulling down his trousers.
Quick mum,
Smack his bum,
Out goes number one.

MSLRT · 01/10/2024 21:54

Uricon2 · 01/10/2024 17:13

"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!

Edited

We four Beatles of Liverpool are
Paul in a bus and John in a car
George on a scooter beeping his hooter
following Ringo Star

Essex 1970s

Scentedjasmin · 01/10/2024 21:57

Violinist64 · 01/10/2024 17:28

Also, 1970s again:
While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All watching ITV?
The angel of the Lord came down,
And switched to BBC.

Only three TV stations then and many people considered the BBC superior to ITV.
We also sang the alternative version to We Three Kings mentioned upthread.

It was Angels washed their socks by night fir us. Midlands, 1980s.

LBFseBrom · 01/10/2024 22:01

I remember the Beatles one from the '60s!

From the 1950s:
Good King Wenceslas looked down
In his striped pyjamas
Sliding down the bannisters
Eating ripe bananas.

Scentedjasmin · 01/10/2024 22:01

A couple more for you:

Beans beans are good for your heart
The more you eat, the more you fart
The more you fart, the better you feel
Beans Beans with every meal.

And
To the tune of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
My father’s a lavatory cleaner
He works both by day and by night
And when he comes home in the evening
He’s covered all over in ...

Shine
Up your buttons with Brasso
It’s only three pence for a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolworths
But I doubt if they’ll have any in

Some say he died of a fever
Some say he died of a fit
But I know what my father died of
He died of the smell of the

Shine
Up your buttons with Brasso
It’s only three pence for a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolworths
But I doubt if they’ll have any in

The day of my fathers funeral
Everything had to go right
So they opened the lid of the coffin
And threw in a bucket of

Shine
Up your buttons with Brasso
It’s only three pence for a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolworths
But I doubt if they’ll have any in

Some say that he’s buried in a graveyard
Some say that he’s buried in a pit
But I know where my father’s buried
He’s buried in six feet of

Shine
Up your buttons with Brasso
It’s only three pence for a tin
You can buy it or nick it from Woolworths
But I doubt if they’ll have any in

apapuchi · 01/10/2024 22:03

tpmumtobe · 01/10/2024 17:21

Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
Robin flew away...
He lost his pants in the south of France
And he found them in Bombay!

Leeds, late 80s/early 90s.

Same in Newcastle upon Tyne early 90s 😂

Scentedjasmin · 01/10/2024 22:03

Jack and Jill went to the dairy
Jack got out his great big hairy
Jill said, 'oh my, what a whopper'
Let's get down and do it proper.

Scentedjasmin · 01/10/2024 22:06

ForeverTeach · 01/10/2024 21:24

London 80’s apologies for the crudeness!

Jesus Christ, super star wears frilly knickers and a Playtex bra

even worse:

If you go down to the woods tonight your in for a big surprise,
Your mum and dad are having a shag,
uncle Frank is having a wank,
and aunty Flo is having a blow with grandad.

No idea where that came from it’s god awful.

Oh gosh, I remember that Aunty Flo one. For us it was 'having a go with Grandad' 🤢

newyear2024 · 01/10/2024 22:09

Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the bat mobile lost its wheel and the joker ran away- N. Ireland '90s'

Scentedjasmin · 01/10/2024 22:12

Fatty and Skinny went to the Zoo
Fatty got stuck in some Elephants poo
Skinny went home to tell his mum
But all he got was a smack on the bum,

NotMeNoNo · 01/10/2024 22:12

This has got to go in Classics!

Whateveritsallmadnow · 01/10/2024 22:16

My friend billy had a 10 foot willy, showed it to the girl next door, she thought it was a snake so cut it with a rake and now it's only 3 foot 4

LeatherJacketWedding · 01/10/2024 22:17

WideFootWelly · 01/10/2024 20:59

There was another to the fraggle rock theme tune. Something about grabbing a fraggle by his cock...but I don't remember the words unfortunately 😕

‘down in Fraggle Rock,
grab a fraggle by his cock,
swing him round your head,
until the bastards dead’ ?

Disneydatknee88 · 01/10/2024 22:17

Jingle bells batman smells, Robin flew away, he did a fart behind a cart and blew up the usa....hey!

Scentedjasmin · 01/10/2024 22:17

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!

Similar version

Jack and Jill went to the Dairy
jack git out his great big hairy
Jill said 'oh my what a whopper'
'let's get down and do it proper'

3 months later all was well
6 months later all was well
9 months later a baby was born
But ladies and gentlemen, that's not all,
The poor little bugger only had one ball.

Raveonette · 01/10/2024 22:20

We sang it in the 80s/90s, greater London. My DC have been singing it the last couple of years too (same area, not learnt from me).

fashionqueen0123 · 01/10/2024 22:22

we sang the uncle Billy lost his Willy on the motorway in the 80s.

Did anyone else sing this?

We are the teenage girls
We wear our hair in curl
We wear our dungarees down to our sexy knees
one day I met a boy
who said come play with me
he counted one two three and stuck it into me.

And then it said something about a baby boy which I forget!

LeatherJacketWedding · 01/10/2024 22:29

When Suzie was a baby, a baby susie was,
she went ‘waah, waah, waah-waah-waah’

when Suzie was a schoolgirl, a schoolgirl Suzie was,
she went ‘miss, miss, I can’t do this, I’ve got me knickers in a great big twist’

teenager..
she went ‘ooh ah, I’ve lost me bra, I’ve left me me knickers in my boyfriends’s car’

It was much longer and usually sang while jumping ropes -Liverpool 1980’s

Nellieinthebarn · 01/10/2024 22:31

TigerOnTour · 01/10/2024 21:27

@Nellieinthebarn correct!

Did a cow kick you in the belly?

😂How could I forget that one! I must be really thick to not remember where my own user name came from.

The cow kicked Nellie in the belly in the barn
The doctor said it wouldn't do her any harm
So we all kicked Nellie in the belly in the barn.

BobbyBiscuits · 01/10/2024 22:42

This has got me thinking, there was one we had that was a bit weird but we thought was hilarious in the 80s...

'Auntie Mary had a canary
She also had a Duck.
She put them behind the kitchen door and taught them how to...
Fried eggs for breakfast, cooked fish for tea,
The more you eat, the more you drink the more you want to...
Peter had a boat, the boat began to rock,
Then up jumped a shark and bit off his...
Cocktails, ginger ales, fifty p a glass.
If you don't like it you could stick them up your...
Ask no questions, and tell no lies
I saw a policeman, unzipping his...
Flies, bugs, beetles, they really are the worst.
And that is the end of the dirty little verse.'

I cannot believe I remembered that. Inspiring stuff. Please don't think I'm a maniac? Lol. Does anyone else recall such a primary school chant?

coldcallerbaiter · 01/10/2024 22:44

Little miss muffett sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey
Along came a spider, that crawled up inside her, and she shouted hip hip horray.

yamafi · 01/10/2024 22:47

RumpleDumple · 01/10/2024 17:06

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

Yes! Dumfries 70's 😁

MummyDummyNow · 01/10/2024 22:54

We sang so many of these in the 80's in the South East! Had totally forgotten about Uncle Billy and his Willy 😂

We also sang (to the tune of the coco pops advert):

My names coco I live in a tree
I sell condoms for 25p
Some for 50 some for a bob
All depends on the size of your knob

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