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....

70's / 80s here and this is the version i know.

London btw

1970s Jesus Christ Superstar (which I love btw)

Jesus Christ, super star
Walks like a woman and wears a bra

Very naughty at the time - especially as my bf was the vicars daughter !

Hopefully someone can complete the Scouse version that ends in ‘following Ringo Star’ I can’t remember it all!

80s in the south east.

jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away
landed in a football pitch and didn’t know to play, hey!

we three kings of orient are
one in a taxi, one in a car, one on a scooter beeping his hooter, singing fa la la la

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'!

South London 1980s - definitely Ip, Dip, Dogshit, Fucking Bastard, Silly Git.

I remember this as.. Jesus Christ superstar, looks like a woman and he wears a bra.
London, 1980s

Im 65 and can remember singing this when I was about 10. Batman was on on TV around this time

While Shepherds watched their flocks by night
All seated round the bank
The Angel of the lord came down
and taught them how to wank

that was another one on a par with Uncle Billy on the motorway and my friend Billy being hit by a rake!

Jesus Christ Superstar
Walks like a woman and wears a bra

was another

The good old days in the South East during the late 80s and 90s 🤣🤣

Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin flew away. Batman lost his lollipop but found a Milky Way....

(Shame we didn't have the Uncle Billy version 🤣).

Georgie Best
Superstar
Wears frilly knickers and a see-through bra

😁

Early 70s, Midlands

Milk, milk, lemonade
round the back chocolate’s made

Just to add, the rest of it was

"Did a skid
Yes he did
Broke his leg on the dustbin lid

.... Maggie Thatcher did a fart & blew up the IRA

North London, late 80s.

I can’t remember what song it was in, I’m vaguely remembering a clapping song? But we used to sing

Oo ah!
I lost my bra
I left my knickers in my boyfriend’s car

😬

I definitely remember someone losing their Willy on the motorway can’t quite remember if we said uncle billy here though. Grew up 90s/00s in south west.

Oh wow...I'm in mid Ulster (in a more nationalist area) and I'd never heard that last part.

Cannot recall what was used here after the first three lines though.

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.

I was at school in the SE in the 90s, and we sing it exactly like that!

re: rude rhymes, my Grandad taught me this in the 70s when I was a very small child. He used to say it when I couldn't make my mind up about something-
"you don't know whether to cough, cum, scratch yer bum, piss, whistle or fart"
He was the best !

Oh thank goodness you posted ours was that as well and I could not remember! late 70’s early 80’s east Lancashire

It was definitely doing the rounds in the mid-1980s! Also, "Father Christmas lost his knickers on the motorway".

I'm a teacher, and every year, the kids at school claim to have made it up. Erm, no. You really didn't!!

My Dad (in his 70s) taught my 9 yr old the Uncle Billy version and he finds it hilarious! Went into school and shared with all his friends... I'm not too sure all of the other parents would have approved 😂

I think that was a skipping chant. We thought it was funny, despite having no clue how such a thing could happen.