2026-04-26 07:47 UTC
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I believe the tune is called "Colonel Bogey". I don't know if it originally had lyrics.
The ones I learned, at a generation's remove from WW2, were:
Hitler,
has only got one ball
Göring,
has two but they were small
Himmler,
had something sim'lar
And Josef Göbbels
had no balls
at all.
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@Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz 2026-04-26 07:49
@rupert@mastodon.nz @eribosot@mastodon.social yup, and more information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bogey_March the more you read about it, the more interesting it gets...
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@eribosot@mastodon.social 2026-04-26 08:26
@rupert@mastodon.nz @maudenificent@aus.social @Y2kyJelly@aus.social @Cadbury_Moose@wandering.shop @DelilahTech@tech.lgbt @HederaVulpes@expressional.social @jmax@mastodon.social @TheVoidTLMB@social.vivaldi.net @Knitronomicon@mastodonapp.uk @Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz @jmopp@masto.ai @v_for_verbosity@mastodon.nz @Havoc_online@mastodon.social @gerg@hachyderm.io @delcj@mas.to @b_age@troet.cafe Those lyrics were written circa 1939: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball