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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:
MovingonupScotland · 01/10/2024 17:39

Zippy and Bungle went to the jungle
Trying to have some fun
Zippy got silly and took out his willy
And put it in Bungle's bum

London late 80s I reckon.

yorktown · 01/10/2024 17:40

I love that this is trending.
Has someone done
"Auntie Mary
Had a canary ....." ?

LBFseBrom · 01/10/2024 17:41

Harmless. When I was a young child in the 1950s it was, "Hitler....he only had one ball". If kids were caught singing it they were severely reprimanded.

Nopenope99nope · 01/10/2024 17:41

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. Uncle Billy lost his willy on the motorway.

Exeter in the 90s

Nopenope99nope · 01/10/2024 17:42

LBFseBrom · 01/10/2024 17:41

Harmless. When I was a young child in the 1950s it was, "Hitler....he only had one ball". If kids were caught singing it they were severely reprimanded.

They still sing this at some football matches

BibbityBobbityToo · 01/10/2024 17:42

Charlie had a pigeon, a pigeon, a pigeon (and repeat). He flew it by day and he flew it by night, and when he came home he was covered in shite...

Teachers loved that one 🤣

Anyone remember this Scottish Belter that us nice girls first heard when nasty rough expelled kid from another school joined us:-

A wet ma hole, a wet ma hole, a wet ma holiday....to see the cun(t) to see the cun(t) to see the country. (I'll save you from the other verses 🫣).

Sia8899 · 01/10/2024 17:43

Bumcake · 01/10/2024 17:39

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

Ah yes might’ve been skipping! And same here… we had no idea what we were really saying and probably followed it up with a choreographed rendition of Two Become One by the Spice Girls… “Gonna make love to ya, baby” 😳

Burntout101 · 01/10/2024 17:44

Chant- Ooo ah, I lost my bra, I lost my knickers in my boyfriend's car. We had no idea what it meant . We said it in infant 1 /2 which was equivalent to reception/yr 1.

TheLittleOldWomanWhoShrinks · 01/10/2024 17:44

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

First two lines of that almost the same, except it was 'widdle with the ants'. Then I'm sure there was a bit about 'loos are all over the place, even if you shop at Mace' (which was a convenience store IIRC).

Uncle Billy had the ten-foot willy, but it was the girl next door he showed it to and her attack on it with the rake left it six foot four.

And Jesus Christ Superstar rode a Yamaha (can't remember the full line), and then, very tastelessly indeed, 'pulled a skid, killed a kid'.

Midlands, 1980s.

Shutupyoutart · 01/10/2024 17:45

uncle Billy lost his willy here too..90s kid. also had one to flying in the air something along the lines of: I'm flying in the air, I lost my underwear to a yeti, I'll go to marks and Spencers to buy another pair, today.

Drinkdrinkduuurink · 01/10/2024 17:46

YellowRollercoaster · 01/10/2024 17:35

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

North London, late 80s.

Other than Maggie Maggie Maggie out out out, the only Maggie song (which I vaguely recall) goes something like whoops Maggie, whoops Maggie (said while using your index finger on the other hand to indicate each fall).

BitzNBobz · 01/10/2024 17:46

Lancs/Greater Manc 80s - Batman, Robin, Joker version. No Uncle Billy.

Another was…

In 1066
The Queen pulled down her knicks
She licked her bum
And said ‘Yum yum’
It’s better than Weetabix

😆

OuterSpaceCadet · 01/10/2024 17:46

Same version of jingle bells as OP.
Sarf lahndon, 80s

kittylion2 · 01/10/2024 17:46

ghostyslovesheets · 01/10/2024 17:31

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

We four Beatles of Liverpool are
John in a taxi, Paul in a car*
George on a scooter beeping his hooter
Followed by Ringo Starr

*might be the other way round

Nopenope99nope · 01/10/2024 17:46

Burntout101 · 01/10/2024 17:44

Chant- Ooo ah, I lost my bra, I lost my knickers in my boyfriend's car. We had no idea what it meant . We said it in infant 1 /2 which was equivalent to reception/yr 1.

We had Oooh Ah Cantona, My mum wears a big black bra
😂

5128gap · 01/10/2024 17:47

Makelikeatreeandleaf · 01/10/2024 17:01

We did not do the Uncle Billy bit, we were much tamer: The Batmobile lost its wheel on the M4 motorway.
ETA late 70s early 80s

Edited

Same but it was M6. 70s, Midlands.

Stewandsocks · 01/10/2024 17:47

EngineEngineNumber9 · 01/10/2024 17:02

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away
The Batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away HEY!

(early 90s, NE Scotland)

We had this one in the 1970s!

scarfaced · 01/10/2024 17:47

Jingle Bells
Batman Smells
Robin flew away
Dropped his pants in the middle of France
And found them in Bombay

NE England - early 80s!

KohlaParasaurus · 01/10/2024 17:47

RumpleDumple · 01/10/2024 17:06

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

Same for us (1970s, not far from Glasgow).

OuterSpaceCadet · 01/10/2024 17:48

Burntout101 · 01/10/2024 17:44

Chant- Ooo ah, I lost my bra, I lost my knickers in my boyfriend's car. We had no idea what it meant . We said it in infant 1 /2 which was equivalent to reception/yr 1.

Omg yes I remember this one!

Nopenope99nope · 01/10/2024 17:48

Popeye the sailor man, lived in a caravan. Went for a piddle in a hole in the middle. Popeye the sailor man

AhBiscuits · 01/10/2024 17:48

My son was taught this by a friend at school last year. We're in Bristol.

Readytoplay · 01/10/2024 17:49

The ‘Jingle Bells, Batman Smells’ one is actually sung by Bart Simpson at the beginning of the first full-length episode (Xmas Special/pilot) and that was in 1989 and the US, so I do not doubt that it probably was around in the 70s (possibly 60s) as well as being widespread.

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oakleaffy · 01/10/2024 17:49

Marmite27 · 01/10/2024 17:06

I’ve never heard of the Uncle Billy version, this was what we sang. Yorkshire, mid-90’s.

This reminds me of the episode of Brassic when they get locked in the morgue freezer and stand arguing over which version of ‘ip, dip’ is the right one Grin

Do you mean ''Ib dib dog-shit -you-are -not- IT''?

BibbityBobbityToo · 01/10/2024 17:49

What do you do with a drunken sailor, strip him off and make him prayer, stick your dick up his bum and send him on his way 🫣

(How to tell people you were 1980's Council estate with mentioning Council estate)