Author Topic: History can be bawdy  (Read 369 times)

Offline Simaril

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History can be bawdy
« on: January 16, 2011, 08:10:40 AM »
Was watching a movie called "John Rabe," about a German in Nanking who worked to save as many Chinese as he could during the Rape of Nanking. Along the way, they show an American doctor singing an...ummm....unauthorized version of the Colonel Bogey March (The one in the theme of The Bridge over the River Kwai).

Did some research and it turns out this was actually in circulation in England during the war. There's some evidence it was written by a member of Britain's propaganda ministry in 1939, but regardless of where it started it was widely sung -- and widely modified. I've taken some of the variations and turned them into verses.



Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small,
Himmler is somewhat sim'lar,
But poor Goebbels has no balls at all.


Verse two
Hitler has only got one ball
The other is on the kitchen wall
His mother was such a bugger
She cut it off when he was very small

Verse three
She threw it, into the apple tree
The wind blew it into the deep blue sea
Where the fishes got off their dishes
 and ate scallops and bollocks for tea
Maturity is knowing that I've been an idiot in the past.
Wisdom is realizing I will be an idiot in the future.
Common sense is trying to not be an idiot right now

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Re: History can be bawdy
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2011, 10:45:19 AM »
Is it true he had only one spud?
There are no pies stored in this plane overnight

                          
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Re: History can be bawdy
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2011, 12:32:20 PM »
"It was once believed that an infinite number of monkeys, typing on an infinite number of keyboards, would eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. However, with the advent of Internet messageboards we now know this is not the case."

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Re: History can be bawdy
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2011, 04:45:35 PM »
Verse two was still widely in use when I was a kid.
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Offline Simaril

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Re: History can be bawdy
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2011, 04:51:14 PM »
Interesting - I read that one or the other version was more common in New Zealand and Australia.

Course seeing it on paper doesn't do it justice at all...must have been a riot to hear 20 guys bawling it out in a bar, to the tune of Col. Bogey March!
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Wisdom is realizing I will be an idiot in the future.
Common sense is trying to not be an idiot right now

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Re: History can be bawdy
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2011, 08:13:42 PM »
I was too young for the bar, but we used to bellow it out around the school yard.
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