WW II ditty

[Aughnanure]

Anyone remember this,

'Hitler has only got one ball,

Musso has two, but very small

Himmler has something sim'lar

But poor old Goballs has no balls at all.'

Eoin.

PS. Pedants enter 'sic' in appropriate places.

[Tom-May]

Eoin,

The version I know has

"...Georing has two but very small..."

Tune is, of course, "Colonel Bogey".

My late Father (1939 'Militia Act' Conscript) first learned a version which started with the intro and first two lines:

Intro:

"Don't claw his eyes out, Maggie,

"Wait 'til you get him into bed,

"Then claw his

Verse

"Bollocks

"And the same to you..."

(rest of verse lost)

Tom

[Aughnanure]

Tom,

I just put 'Dirty Dittys of WW2' into Google and among other interesting bits (which I shall persue later) I came up with this.

To the tune of 'Lili Marlene'

"Dear Lady Astor, you think you know a lot,

Standing on that platform an' talkin' tommy-rot,

You're England's sweetheart and her pride,

We think your mouth's too bloody wide.

That's from your D-Day Dodgers, in sunny Italy."

Seems that the Lady made a great gaffe in Parliament by calling the 8th Army and those Allies fighting alongside of them....'D-Day Dodgers'.

Not the only time that she suffered from 'Foot-in-Mouth'

Eoin.

[Tom-May]

Eoin,

"D-Day Dodgers"*, - I remember hearing that sung at a folk club, the last verse was sung softly and unaccompanied -very effective

Nancy, Lady Astor (Conservative MP for Plymouth 1919-45 and apparently a regular sufferer from f-in-m disease) was a particular bane of Churchill's and a cause of many (recorded) caustic exchanges:

Examples:

NA: "Winston - You're drunk!"

WC: "Nancy, you're ugly - but in the morning I shall be sober"

or

NA: "Winston, if you were my husband I'd put poison in your tea"

WC: "Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it".

I seem to recall reading that, at one time, Lady Astor wanted all servicemen returning from overseas to be required to wear a yellow armband inpublic to mark them out to 'British Womanhood' as a possible vector for venerial disease. It appears there was some minor scandal involving her daughter and Lady A quickly and quietly dropped the idea - no details were forthcoming..

Have you ever read "Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major" (Martin Page)? You might find a few songs ther to ammuse you.

Tom

* Just a bit of one-upmanship The song is credited to L/Sgt Harry Pynn of Tank Rescue Section, 19 Army Fire Brigade, 79th Div (the the time, 79 Div had spent three months trying to break through the Gothic Line)

[riptidenj]

"Berlin has only one beer hall

Stuttgart, they have none at all

In Munich, ve lift our tunic

To show we Germans have no balls at all"

[pneps]

Anyone remember this,

'Hitler has only got one ball,
Musso has two, but very small
Himmler has something sim'lar
But poor old Goballs has no balls at all.'

Eoin.

PS. Pedants enter 'sic' in appropriate places.

An old Spike Jones tune.

[Tom-May]

pneps,

"...An old Spike Jones tune. ..."

I think you'll find the tune pre-dates Spike Jones by a few years.

The original tune "Colonel Bogey" was written in 1913 (apparently the tune's title came about because of a day's ruined walk^H^H^H^H^H golf).

Tom