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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....

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ghostyslovesheets · 02/10/2024 12:41

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius my 78 year old mum used to sing a version of this!

mum’s out, dad’s out
lets play rude
pee poo belly bum draws
run around the garden in the nude
pee poo belly bum draws!

used to make us giggle as kids

EngineEngineNumber9 · 02/10/2024 12:50

@fashionqueen0123 @RedOnyx

We sang a similar song! (Aged about 10-11 😐)

”We are the [school name] girls
we wear our hair in curls
we wear our Levi jeans
upon our sexy knees

we don’t smoke or drink
that’s what our parents think!
And when it comes to toys
we’d rather play with boys…”

i can’t remember all of it but it ended with
“my mother jumped for joy it was a baby boy
my father hit the roof it was a baby poof” 😬

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 02/10/2024 12:56

@ghostyslovesheets - my parents sang other Flanders and Swann songs, but not that one - maybe it was too rude for them! 😂

MsBaggins · 02/10/2024 13:25

Has anyone mentioned Hitler has only got one ball?

The other is in the Albert hall,
His mother,
The silly bugger,
Cut it off when he was small

SheilaFentiman · 02/10/2024 13:56

MsBaggins · 02/10/2024 13:25

Has anyone mentioned Hitler has only got one ball?

The other is in the Albert hall,
His mother,
The silly bugger,
Cut it off when he was small

Hitler has only got one ball
The other is in the Albert Hall
Himmler
Had something similar
Whilst Goering had no balls at all

LBFseBrom · 02/10/2024 14:24

Yes, that has been mentioned but not in full.

I thought it was Joe Goebbels who had no balls at all.

DoTheDinosaurStomp · 02/10/2024 14:32

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The flip flop one?

I'm in Scotland.

Violinist64 · 02/10/2024 14:40

Apparently, it was anatomically correct about Hitler, but the version l know is:
Hitler has only got one ball,
Goering has two but very small,
Himmler has something similar,
But poor old Goebels has no balls at all.

WhatWouldJeevesDo · 02/10/2024 14:42

LBFseBrom · 02/10/2024 14:24

Yes, that has been mentioned but not in full.

I thought it was Joe Goebbels who had no balls at all.

yes I think so
“ Goering has two but very small”

is the second line in the version I’ve heard the most..

coldcallerbaiter · 02/10/2024 14:51

The Adams family started
When Uncle Fester farted
(any name) is retarded
The Adams family

AliceMcK · 02/10/2024 17:33

MelodyMalone · 01/10/2024 19:13

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...

Edited

My ex husband from New Zealand use to sing this one.

tempname1234 · 02/10/2024 17:38

I watched Batman in the late 60s (in USA) and we sang

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg
The Batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away

Ramblomatic · 02/10/2024 17:39

My mate Billy had a 6-foot willy,
And he showed it to the girl next door.
She thought it was a snake, hit it with a rake,
And now it's only 3-foot-4.

AliceMcK · 02/10/2024 17:46

Rigatone · 01/10/2024 19:46

Yes! And verse 2 is

In 1984
The monkeys went to war
They used their bums
To fire the guns
In 1984

NW 90s

Haha it was 1986 for us.

omg so many are coming back to me. I haven’t got past page 15 yet so not sure if these have been said

in primary I learnt

Mummy, do you know that boy next door
Mummy, he got me on the floor
Mummy look at my tummy, it’s getting bigger and bigger each day

Herbert, look what you did to me
Herbert, we’ll have a family
Herbert, we’ll call it Sherbert and there will be Herbert and Sherbert and me.

in high school there were a few, but I always remember this one, sang like a marching chant.

Walking down canal street
Walking down canal street
Knocking on every dooor
Knocking on every dooor
God dam son of a bitch I couldn’t find a whore!

Finally found a whore
Finally found a whore
She was nice and slim
She was nice and slim
God dam son of a bitch I couldn’t get it in

Finally got it iiinn
finally got it iinnn
Wiggled it all about
Wiggled it all about
God dam son of a bitch I couldn’t get it out

Finally got it out
Finally got it out
It was red and sore
It was red and sore
The moral of the story is to never fuck a whore

OMG as I’m writing this I’m thinking fuck, what on earth! We actually use to chant this on the school bus which was a public bus with every day passengers 🤦‍♀️

Mumoftwoandcats · 02/10/2024 17:48

Jingle bells, Batman smells, robin flew away, Kojak lost his lollipop but found a Milky Way. Glasgow, 1970s

WhatWouldJeevesDo · 02/10/2024 17:52

There was quite a strange one:
I am a lavatory, you don’t know what I can see, come and be sick on me!

Anyone know any more to it.

Andipxs · 02/10/2024 18:01

TigerOnTour · 01/10/2024 17:57

Do you remember this: 'The Adams family started when Uncle Fester farted...'

Who knows the next line?

He farted through the keyhole,
and paralysed the cat!

Alconleigh · 02/10/2024 18:09

Warwickshire early 1980s versions were:
Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away
Wonder Woman lost her bra on the M1 motorway

We three Kings of Leamington Spa
One in a taxi one in a car
One on a scooter blowing his hooter smoking a big cigar

Jesus Christ, Superstar, once did confess that he wore a bra

Bbq1 · 02/10/2024 18:16

Arlanymor · 01/10/2024 17:32

There were three in the bed and the little one said: "Roll over, roll over"
So they all rolled over and one fell out...
He hit the floor and his guts fell out
RULE BRITANNIA!
Three monkeys on a stick
One fell off and paralysed his...
There were two in the bed...

These are all very tame - I'm not going to start sharing my old rugby club songs, like 'The S and M Man'!

There were three in the bed at the old Pier Head and the little one said, "Roll over, roll over". So they all rolled over and one fell out and gave a shout, "Please remember to tie a knot in your pyjamas!"
Then there were only one, two... In the bed... and so on

Obviously, Liverpool!

Moll2020 · 02/10/2024 18:18

Berga · 01/10/2024 17:00

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

I used to sing that Father Christmas lost his knickers on the M4 motorway!! 😂😂

Bbq1 · 02/10/2024 18:20

WinterAconite · 01/10/2024 17:16

We used to sing
"What do you do if you want to go to loo in an English Country Garden
Pull down your pants and paralyse the ants in an English Country Garden
Then get a spade and bury what you made in an ECG."
South London late 70s

We sang "and fertilise the plants in an English Country Garden". Nothing about burying it though!

artyone · 02/10/2024 18:21

goingtohellinahandcart · 01/10/2024 18:01

Anybody else know "great uncle Bulgaria jumped without a parachute" sang to the tune of glory, glory hallelujah

The verses go on and on but the chorus is

glory, glory what a hell of a way to die
jumping out a jet plane and forgetting how to fly
glory glory what a hell of a way to die
and he ain't going to jump no more(without his boots on)

Ours went ‘glory glory what a helluv a way to die when you’re hanging from your britches and you don’t know how to fly…

I also was taught the beetles version of star of wonder.

and I was also taught several limericks by my father which are almost too rude to repeat including

there once was a man from leeds
who swallowed a packet of seeds
and after an hour
his p grew a flower
bis a* was a jumble of weeds

also

there once was a woman from devises
who had breasts of two different sizes
one was small and no good at all
the other was large and won prizes

1990s Cambridgeshire

artyone · 02/10/2024 18:23

has sitting in a tree come up?

sarah and John sitting in a tree
K I S S I N G
first comes love
then comes sex
then comes a baby on a bmx

artyone · 02/10/2024 18:24

AliceMcK · 02/10/2024 17:33

My ex husband from New Zealand use to sing this one.

The version of ‘do your balls hang low’ we knew we learned from the Tv show Bottom, if I remember correctly!

jcsc · 02/10/2024 18:26

1980 south east (kent) ours was uncle Billy lost his Willy on the motorway. My kids now sing it but to some people’s horror 🙈🙈

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