Children's chant

[Jonathan Lighter]

It was widely sung in all anglophone armies during WWII.  BTW, "Goebbels" is pronounced in this unique case to rhyme with "no balls."

I also heard it from a college chum in 1970.

JL
George Thompson <george.thompson at NYU.EDU> wrote:
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Larry Horn submits:

> and then there was the related (via Col. Bogey rather than Disney, of
> course) verse, discussed on the list some years ago,
>
> Hitler # had only one, left ball,
> Goering # had two but they were small.
> Himmler # had something similar,
> And Goebbals
> Had no balls
> At all.
>

Brendan Behan quotes this in Borstal Boy.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.


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