I was one of those kids! And after my older sister wouldn't play cowboy and Indians with me anymore cos she discovered Duran Duran, I had to go solo and became a Nazi hunter!
My grandad, who was torpedoed twice in ww2, then joined the army so he could shoot back, used to sing this with me when he was teaching me to march on walks when i was a kid. Now the English vote for fascists and betray him and his fellows daily.
The version I knew was; Hitler has only got one ball The other is in the Albert hall, Because his mother, The dirty bug**r, Cut it off when he was small That was late 90s early 00s
It was written in 1914, the tune is Colonel Bogey. The Hitler lyrics were added to give the morale a lift during the second world war. You might know it from The Great Escape war film, which Elmer Bernstein used as inspiration. In Bridge Over The River Kwai, the exact tune is whistled. The Great Escape version has become part of the England football fans repertoire over the last 25-30 years.
Since I was a kid, when I'm walking on gravel or snow (or anything that makes that kind of crunchy noise) I can't help but whistle the theme tune from The Great Escape, the steps create the perfect beat... Not very significant, well, not until I was in Germany walking around a lake. It was only the English people in my group that were bothered, they thought I was being a dick on purpose, but for me it's effortless.
As kids we'd still sing it in the 70's when I was growing up, there were two common versions, the one in this sketch and this one which we always sang: "Hitler has only got one ball," "The other is in the Albert Hall," "His mother, the dirty bugger," "Chopped it off when Hitler was small."
That version never made sense to me. My dad was a WWII veteran (yes I'm really that old) and he would sing it the "proper" way when he thought us kids weren't around lol. Sorry dad. 5 boys, we were everywhere! Occasionally we'd hear the occasional "inky pinky parlez vous". He learned that from _his_ dad who was wounded at the Somme. Edited for spelling mistakes. Like i said, old.
This song/tune was very well known here in Britain during the war, so if you hadn't heard it before it wouldn't necessarily be an understandable sketch.
There was an episode of Pointless (for those unfamiliar it's a quiz show he hosts where the aim is to get identify an answer the fewest of 100 people surveyed gave) where the challenge was to name an artist with one of the best selling albums of the year. One contestants gave Alexander Armstrong as an answer... and it was pointless. He was thrilled!
Part of the comedy here is knowing the song all your life which doesn't compute to your average American. Kids would sing this when I was young (The words being instead "Hitler has only got one ball, the other is in the Albert Hall" though). So the full joke here is the serious origins and gravity that was taken making such a silly song you sang as a kid
My favourite A&M sketch. I still laugh out loud every time I see it 😂 It is a real song btw, British soldiers used to sing it during the war along with every kid in every playground for decades afterwards. 😂
The original tune was “ The Colonel Bogey March” written by Lieutenant FJ Ricketts between 1939-1940. It’s a British marching song usually whistled. There is a second verse which you can find on TH-cam. Enjoy
Historical fact: It not only won the war for the allies, but was instrumental in providing some vital content in a key scene for the 1980s classic ' the breakfast club'. Also: his other was in the Albert hall.
People of my age used to sing it as kids. No doubt learned from our dads. The tune is 'Colonel Bogey' "Hitler, he only had one ball. Goering had two but very small. Himmler was somewhat sim'lar, But poor old Goeballs had no balls at all DA RA RA....." (repeat) This was especially apposite in the hearing of Hitler himself. I mean the teacher of that name. Every school had at least one of those. A physical resemblance was not essential, though we had one who was a pretty good likeness, just with a rather bigger moustache. He well deserved the title, too. He claimed his name was "Mr White", but he couldn't fool us. So this is very old material recycled. (OK I typed this before the song was actually "invented" in the clip)
To say that this sketch simply sums up the British Establishment in the 1930s and 40s is an understatement. Classis Armstrong and Miller and as others have said it was a staple song of all British playgrounds in the 50s, 60s 70s and 80s as far as boys were concerned .
I grew up with this 1940's ditty in the 70's and have taught this tune to my grandkids a while ago now. It gave me a nostalgic memory seeing this of a mate of mine being " kept in " by his mum for singing it. Bad language was not tolerated lol..... Then again, we we're that ignorant in those days we still run up to a black person in the street and touched them for luck. If only we knew...
The march “Colonel Bogey” is by Major Frederick Ricketts, pen name Kenneth J. Alford, a director of music in the Royal Marines Band Service. Though when he composed “Colonel Bogey” he was the Bandmaster of the 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
😢Famous miltary march tune, called "Colonel Bogey" . . . as used in the film "Bridge on the River Kwai" . . . given the context of the latter film i.e. the Burma Death Railway, the lyrics should have started "Tojo etc etc".Depiction in the film is of tortured and starved British POWs working as slave labour, who were working on the Burma Railway (See John Coast's book) whistling this tune on the return march to their "Accommodation" camp after a day's work on the Railway. It was depicted in the film as a method of maintaining morale and discipline of the imprisoned troops:- th-cam.com/video/4k4NEAIk3PU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PFOhjJvGNK72DIDB Out of context in the sketch is the two-tone inspiration for Mr Alexander Armstrong's composition. This two-tone horn was used for a long-time on British railway diesel locomotive train stock, . . . in place of the steam engine whistle. But these firstt appeared in the 1960s in the UK i.e. 20 years after WW2 finished, as diesels were being phased-in to replace steam engines. Famously used in the British Rail TV advert "This is the age of the train". Here's a proper rendition, provided by HM Royal Marines at the 2015 Edinburgh Tatoo ( Stick with it, takes a couple of minutes of drumming before the tune kicks in) th-cam.com/video/4dPn9M7TLlI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=vEvWe2BXi7eYzeFg So, not so funny really, when you know the history. N.
The tune itself is called The Colenel Bogey March and it was, famously used in the WWII movie The Bridge on the River Kwai. The lyrics of Hitler has only got one ball appeared in 1939 amongst British soldiers. It became a nationwide favourite song of defiance durng the war that carried on through the subsequent decades. Although todays youngsters may not know it too well, there are still quite a few million here that do.
Love this sketch. The fact that no train had those horns during the age of steam doesn't matter as every Brit has heard it at least once in their lifetime. :)
AaM had sketch shows on the bbc and channel 4, the c4 episodes were more more edgy, my favourite sketches were nude practice which featured Sarah Alexander, anyone remembered the final episode 😍😍😍
I remember singing this in the school playground back in the 80's. Possibly the catchiest song ever as it was written in 1939 and people are still referencing over 80 years later. There is literally a wikipedia page about it.
Colonel Bogey was an established march tune (played to help soldiers keep time when on a long march) and, being soldiers, they would whistle along with the tune or, as in this case, sing to alleviate the essential boredom of long route marches. The extent to which the words used were 'introduced' or just the result of spontaneous wit which was then taken up by everyone marching to the tune is probably pure speculation.
its the football chant culture in us, I remember singing it in the 70s at school, not sure if it was from war times, but wouldn't surprise me. Like i said, it's the same thing as our taking the piss in football chants
Check the Wiki music - was originally called "Colonel Bogey March", composed by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts while in Fort George near Inverness, shortly before World War 1. The lyrics according to Wiki for the song have no official ascribing, though various have claimed to penning it (there are lots of versions, with various additional verses - usually a lot more obscene in nature than the first four lines quoted in this video).
Watch the 1957 film “The Bridge over the River Kwai” with Sir Alec Guinness, for on of the best renditions of the Colonel Bogey March, on which the Hitler song was based.
At least two of the actors there are from the Horrible Histories troupe. (Ben Willbond and Jim Howick). That was a fantastic show in the early series. It even won best sketch show at the British comedy awards, despite being a children's show. Well worth a watch. You'll also see them both in the (original) UK version of Ghosts.
The song is a military march called "Colonel Bogey". The song, with the lyrics "Hitler has only got.....", was sung during the war by Allied forces and citizens. It is still occasionally sung, during drunken revels, for a laugh.
This song is based on fact btw. Technically he had two but only one had dropped so visually he had one bollock. It's a medical condition. The war era had some great funny music, noel coward "don't be beastly to the Germans" is a personal fav and was in sas rogue heroes.
I think the chap who you thought was David Mitchell is actually the actor who played 'Gerald',... Marks nemesis in Peep show, so I guess there is a very slight connection.
The joke only really works if you are familiar with the song to start with - back in the 70s kids learned this at the same time they learned nursery rhymes (especially if you had an older brother). This is simply a genius 'origin' story.
Testies testies the fuhrer had only one….that tune was to ‘daisy daisy, give me an answer do’ which was an old music hall song. And yes, I’m another one who used to sing all of these on the playground. Especially the one ball albert hall version. We were nasty children. Goodness knows how we learned them but I remember it from before I was seven because that’s when I changed schools. And yes, we knew what it meant.
You've heard the tune before because it's been around since before WW2 . The tune is called COLONEL BOGEY and was composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F.J. RICKETTS, a British Army bandmaster. It was used in the film BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI. I've also heard ... "Hitler, has only got one ball. The other, is in the Albert Hall. His mother, the dirty bugger. Chopped it off when Hitler was small". Armstrong and Miller DIDN'T write the lyrics.
I this this sketch loses a lot of meaning if you didn’t know the song before. The tune is the Colonel Bogey March which was written in the First World War but perhaps became better known after it was used in The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Kids were still singing this in the playground in the 80’s.
I was one of those kids! And after my older sister wouldn't play cowboy and Indians with me anymore cos she discovered Duran Duran, I had to go solo and became a Nazi hunter!
Used to belt it out in the 70's!
Good times😅
I still sing it!
So true ❤
90s too
Armstrong and Miller did not invent the song, it was widely sung by British troops during WW2.
Really? Hard to believe.
My grandad, who was torpedoed twice in ww2, then joined the army so he could shoot back, used to sing this with me when he was teaching me to march on walks when i was a kid.
Now the English vote for fascists and betray him and his fellows daily.
@@ianstopher9111 its 100% true
@@ianstopher9111100% true. Even has its own wiki page!
It's absolutely true. An example of British humour in the face of adversity. @@ianstopher9111
Second line when I was a kid (in the 90s!) was "the other is in the Albert Hall"
me too (in the 70s!)..thought someone would mention this and save me from writing...oh, hang on......👍😄
I'm my school we'd also add "his mother, the dirty bugger, cut it off when he was small"
Same at my school.
It continued to say that
"his mother, the dirty scrubber, cut the other off when he was just small"
The version I knew was;
Hitler has only got one ball
The other is in the Albert hall,
Because his mother,
The dirty bug**r,
Cut it off when he was small
That was late 90s early 00s
"His mother, the dirty scrubber, cut it off when he was small" ... I think the lyrics had many variants by the time they got to me in the 90's 🤣
It was written in 1914, the tune is Colonel Bogey. The Hitler lyrics were added to give the morale a lift during the second world war. You might know it from The Great Escape war film, which Elmer Bernstein used as inspiration. In Bridge Over The River Kwai, the exact tune is whistled. The Great Escape version has become part of the England football fans repertoire over the last 25-30 years.
And based on fact, his medical condition where only one of his balls had dropped so he did technically have 2 but only one in his ball sack.
☝
Since I was a kid, when I'm walking on gravel or snow (or anything that makes that kind of crunchy noise) I can't help but whistle the theme tune from The Great Escape, the steps create the perfect beat... Not very significant, well, not until I was in Germany walking around a lake. It was only the English people in my group that were bothered, they thought I was being a dick on purpose, but for me it's effortless.
IT WILL NEVER DIE.
As kids we'd still sing it in the 70's when I was growing up, there were two common versions, the one in this sketch and this one which we always sang:
"Hitler has only got one ball,"
"The other is in the Albert Hall,"
"His mother, the dirty bugger,"
"Chopped it off when Hitler was small."
"She threw it into a chestnut tree.
It landed in the deep blue sea,
Where the fishes, took out their dishes
And had scallops and bollocks for tea"
Huh. The videos I've watched on YT have all 3 of them as separate verses.
@@JoeThornhill When I was a kid in the 70's we knew it as two separate versions and we'd only ever sing the first verse anyway
That's the one I know. Although I have heard this before, there are probably area variations just like bap and barm
Yeah that's the version I knew when growing up in Northern Ireland! 😂😂
Every British kid in school sang this song back in the day. They just made up a backstory as to where and how it was created.
We used to sing it in the 60's in the playground at primary school 5 to11 years olds.
Same in the 80s and 90s
The other is in the Albert Hall was a favourite song of young kids back in the day
We sing this when we were kids
That version never made sense to me.
My dad was a WWII veteran (yes I'm really that old) and he would sing it the "proper" way when he thought us kids weren't around lol. Sorry dad. 5 boys, we were everywhere!
Occasionally we'd hear the occasional "inky pinky parlez vous". He learned that from _his_ dad who was wounded at the Somme.
Edited for spelling mistakes. Like i said, old.
I remember a ‘on the kitchen wall’ version 😂
@@1Munro3000 I don't know that one, how does it go?
This song/tune was very well known here in Britain during the war, so if you hadn't heard it before it wouldn't necessarily be an understandable sketch.
The tune is titled 'Colonel Bogey' and is part of the repertoire of British marching bands.
Alexander Armstrong has a lovely singing voice. He’s had at least one album.
There was an episode of Pointless (for those unfamiliar it's a quiz show he hosts where the aim is to get identify an answer the fewest of 100 people surveyed gave) where the challenge was to name an artist with one of the best selling albums of the year. One contestants gave Alexander Armstrong as an answer... and it was pointless. He was thrilled!
Part of the comedy here is knowing the song all your life which doesn't compute to your average American. Kids would sing this when I was young (The words being instead "Hitler has only got one ball, the other is in the Albert Hall" though). So the full joke here is the serious origins and gravity that was taken making such a silly song you sang as a kid
My favourite A&M sketch. I still laugh out loud every time I see it 😂 It is a real song btw, British soldiers used to sing it during the war along with every kid in every playground for decades afterwards. 😂
You're correct it is a military tune. Its "Colonel Bogeys March". There's a great video of the Royal Marines Band playing it marching through London.
The original tune was “ The Colonel Bogey March” written by Lieutenant FJ Ricketts between 1939-1940. It’s a British marching song usually whistled. There is a second verse which you can find on TH-cam. Enjoy
Right from ww2 kids all over Britain were singing this song about Hitler.
Eatery English child through the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s & 80’s knew this little ditty.
I love an English eatery.
@@hadz8671 Never miss the chance to visit a good Cottage Balti!
Can't beat a nice Steakhouse 😅
Have you ever been to a Harvester?
In Australia we used to sing it at school in the 70’s.
Historical fact:
It not only won the war for the allies, but was instrumental in providing some vital content in a key scene for the 1980s classic ' the breakfast club'.
Also: his other was in the Albert hall.
People of my age used to sing it as kids. No doubt learned from our dads. The tune is 'Colonel Bogey'
"Hitler, he only had one ball.
Goering had two but very small.
Himmler was somewhat sim'lar,
But poor old Goeballs had no balls at all
DA RA RA....."
(repeat)
This was especially apposite in the hearing of Hitler himself. I mean the teacher of that name. Every school had at least one of those. A physical resemblance was not essential, though we had one who was a pretty good likeness, just with a rather bigger moustache. He well deserved the title, too. He claimed his name was "Mr White", but he couldn't fool us.
So this is very old material recycled.
(OK I typed this before the song was actually "invented" in the clip)
I was born just after the war and this song was well known at school.
To say that this sketch simply sums up the British Establishment in the 1930s and 40s is an understatement. Classis Armstrong and Miller and as others have said it was a staple song of all British playgrounds in the 50s, 60s 70s and 80s as far as boys were concerned .
I used to sing this in primary school in the 70s
we were singing it in the late 60s in the playgroud ... and that was at a catholic school where we were taught by nuns :)
This sketch KILLED me the first time I saw it. 😂 great seeing your reaction to it!
The song is called 'colonel' Bogey.
Theme to Bridge on the River Kwai
I grew up with this 1940's ditty in the 70's and have taught this tune to my grandkids a while ago now. It gave me a nostalgic memory seeing this of a mate of mine being " kept in " by his mum for singing it. Bad language was not tolerated lol..... Then again, we we're that ignorant in those days we still run up to a black person in the street and touched them for luck. If only we knew...
The march “Colonel Bogey” is by Major Frederick Ricketts, pen name Kenneth J. Alford, a director of music in the Royal Marines Band Service. Though when he composed “Colonel Bogey” he was the Bandmaster of the 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
😢Famous miltary march tune, called "Colonel Bogey" . . . as used in the film "Bridge on the River Kwai" . . . given the context of the latter film i.e. the Burma Death Railway, the lyrics should have started "Tojo etc etc".Depiction in the film is of tortured and starved British POWs working as slave labour, who were working on the Burma Railway (See John Coast's book) whistling this tune on the return march to their "Accommodation" camp after a day's work on the Railway. It was depicted in the film as a method of maintaining morale and discipline of the imprisoned troops:-
th-cam.com/video/4k4NEAIk3PU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PFOhjJvGNK72DIDB
Out of context in the sketch is the two-tone inspiration for Mr Alexander Armstrong's composition. This two-tone horn was used for a long-time on British railway diesel locomotive train stock, . . . in place of the steam engine whistle. But these firstt appeared in the 1960s in the UK i.e. 20 years after WW2 finished, as diesels were being phased-in to replace steam engines. Famously used in the British Rail TV advert "This is the age of the train".
Here's a proper rendition, provided by HM Royal Marines at the 2015 Edinburgh Tatoo ( Stick with it, takes a couple of minutes of drumming before the tune kicks in)
th-cam.com/video/4dPn9M7TLlI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=vEvWe2BXi7eYzeFg
So, not so funny really, when you know the history.
N.
Yep true I think🎉 originally tune was called colrnal bogey but in the 80s we still sang this version in the playground!
Armstrong and Miller (specifically Armstrong) have other piano based sketches. 'Olden Days Musician' is fantastic.
As are "Brabbins and Fyffe"
The tune itself is called The Colenel Bogey March and it was, famously used in the WWII movie The Bridge on the River Kwai. The lyrics of Hitler has only got one ball appeared in 1939 amongst British soldiers. It became a nationwide favourite song of defiance durng the war that carried on through the subsequent decades. Although todays youngsters may not know it too well, there are still quite a few million here that do.
Love this sketch. The fact that no train had those horns during the age of steam doesn't matter as every Brit has heard it at least once in their lifetime. :)
Yes. Deltic diesel locomotive introduced in 1961, 20 years after this ditty!
AaM had sketch shows on the bbc and channel 4, the c4 episodes were more more edgy, my favourite sketches were nude practice which featured Sarah Alexander, anyone remembered the final episode 😍😍😍
Allegedly someone screwed a small wooden box on the wall of a stall at the Albert hall saying it contained other Hitlers ball
If that’s true that’s genius 😂
Straight from a manager at Albert Hall who told a youtube auditor who was filming the building recently, not sure if they left it or took it down
@@keefsmiff we are the best in the world at comedy
Thx for the heads up smiffy👍
In the 50s we used to sing this in the play ground with the words... the other is in the Albert Hall.
I remember singing this in the school playground back in the 80's. Possibly the catchiest song ever as it was written in 1939 and people are still referencing over 80 years later. There is literally a wikipedia page about it.
During the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Hitler was wounded in the groin area/upper left thigh, which inspired the song.
We used to sing this in the playground ......
Gentlemen... it's occurred to me that Britain has the finest comedy in the world
It's presented as a comedic sketch, but its based on an actual British propaganda ditty that was sung in ww2
The person you thought was David Mitchell, was actually Jim Howick of Horrible Histories fame.
*Hooooorrible Hi-stor-iiiiiiies*
And Peep Show, alongside David Mitchell
And Pat from Ghosts!
and Yonderland. Loved that show.
@@Zso-VIII Gerrard, the other member of The Dobby Fan Club
Colonel Bogey was an established march tune (played to help soldiers keep time when on a long march) and, being soldiers, they would whistle along with the tune or, as in this case, sing to alleviate the essential boredom of long route marches. The extent to which the words used were 'introduced' or just the result of spontaneous wit which was then taken up by everyone marching to the tune is probably pure speculation.
its the football chant culture in us,
I remember singing it in the 70s at school, not sure if it was from war times, but wouldn't surprise me. Like i said, it's the same thing as our taking the piss in football chants
My father taught it to me. He was in the 8th army
The tune is Colonel Bogey and the song is a genuine WWII song.
I sung that song as a kid in the 1970s, in New Zealand.
Goebbels has 8 children.
The other is in the albert hall is the second line I know. And yes sung in school in the 80s
I was born in 1955 and that was still being sung by British kids in the 70's !
The pianist played by Alexander Armstrong, best known for hosting Pointless
What a pillock, calling that a skip. We still singing variations of that song now at primary schools guaranteed!
The train horn from the much later era of diesel trains is quite a touch.
The one you thought was David Mitchell was Jim Howick, another genius.
Check the Wiki music - was originally called "Colonel Bogey March", composed by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts while in Fort George near Inverness, shortly before World War 1.
The lyrics according to Wiki for the song have no official ascribing, though various have claimed to penning it (there are lots of versions, with various additional verses - usually a lot more obscene in nature than the first four lines quoted in this video).
Watch the 1957 film “The Bridge over the River Kwai” with Sir Alec Guinness, for on of the best renditions of the Colonel Bogey March, on which the Hitler song was based.
In the UK, growing up I the 70s, we learned that song in the playground as kids. Colonel Bogey is the tune.
'Colonel Bogey' is the name of the tune. Genuine joke song from the 40s til now.
At least two of the actors there are from the Horrible Histories troupe. (Ben Willbond and Jim Howick).
That was a fantastic show in the early series. It even won best sketch show at the British comedy awards, despite being a children's show.
Well worth a watch.
You'll also see them both in the (original) UK version of Ghosts.
The song is a military march called "Colonel Bogey". The song, with the lyrics "Hitler has only got.....", was sung during the war by Allied forces and citizens. It is still occasionally sung, during drunken revels, for a laugh.
Personally I wouldn’t mind a full rendition of ‘Testes Testes’
It was a.military song! They kept whistling it in Bridge On The River Kwai (it's called Colonel Bogey)
Now stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Thank you!
I still hum this now but as a kid we sang this all the time the second line is that his ball is in the Albert hall and something about his mother lol
The Colonel Bogey tune is whistled by the marching British prisoners of war in the 1957 film Bridge on the River Kwai.
Armstrong and Miller - Spring Cotillion needs to be on your list!!
King Boomer you don’t remember Gerrard from Peep Show? He’s the actor you thought was David Mitchell
I think the original march was Colonel Bogey, by John Phillip Souza x
Kenneth Alford, actually.
@@hazelanderson1479 I bow to your greater knowledge - you are, of course, correct x
A song that was well known in my youth . Clever skit from Ben and Xander about its origins .
There is an epidode of Man in the High Castle entitled Hitler has only Got One Ball. Well worth watching.
Colonel Bogey's March is the name of the song. And those are the actual lyrics
What are the actual lyrics?
@eadweard. Hitler has only got one ball, Goering has two but very small, Himmler's are also similar, while Goebbels has no balls at all
This was our favourite hymn at church
As a kid in the 1950s I remember singing this song.
The tune is Cononel Bogey
We still sang this in the 90s as kids
As kids in school during the 70's and 80's we sang this rhyme.
Probably couldn't do it nowadays.
I believe the singular of testes is testis, if I remember my Latin correctly.
We were singing that at school back in the 70's...the other was in the Albert Hall.
This song is based on fact btw. Technically he had two but only one had dropped so visually he had one bollock. It's a medical condition. The war era had some great funny music, noel coward "don't be beastly to the Germans" is a personal fav and was in sas rogue heroes.
Just a myth.
@@eadweard.🤣. No it isn't, it's a medical condition he had and it came to light from his military ww1 medical record. Fact!
@@tobytaylor2154Where did you learn this?
There's also the claim by a supposed childhood friend that he had one bitten off by a goat.
@@ThePillenwerfer :)
I don't think any British person can hear the Colonel Bogey march without thinking some version of this classic song.
I wonder if he also wrote Two World Wars and One World Cup, Doo Dah, Doo Dah
I think the chap who you thought was David Mitchell is actually the actor who played 'Gerald',... Marks nemesis in Peep show, so I guess there is a very slight connection.
Gerrard*
@@2neutrino Yes, I stand corrected.
The joke only really works if you are familiar with the song to start with - back in the 70s kids learned this at the same time they learned nursery rhymes (especially if you had an older brother). This is simply a genius 'origin' story.
Testies testies the fuhrer had only one….that tune was to ‘daisy daisy, give me an answer do’ which was an old music hall song.
And yes, I’m another one who used to sing all of these on the playground. Especially the one ball albert hall version. We were nasty children. Goodness knows how we learned them but I remember it from before I was seven because that’s when I changed schools. And yes, we knew what it meant.
We sang this in school in the late 80s 😅 and we used it at this German teacher we had and it infuriated him. It use to wind him up 😅😅
I remember singing this at school in the 70s.
we knew this as 80s kids in Australia, but we also knew Kevin bloody Wilson songs
I used to sing that song in the achool playground back in the 1070s.
You've heard the tune before because it's been around since before WW2 .
The tune is called COLONEL BOGEY and was composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F.J. RICKETTS, a British Army bandmaster. It was used in the film BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI.
I've also heard ...
"Hitler, has only got one ball.
The other, is in the Albert Hall.
His mother, the dirty bugger.
Chopped it off when Hitler was small".
Armstrong and Miller DIDN'T write the lyrics.
The punchline to this sketch has bewilderingly been cut out. There is a fuller version somewhere on TH-cam, if you wanted to see the rest.
we used to sing this song walking back from the pub
Sang it as kids in the 60s
Kids in playgrounds were singing it in the early 90s.
I still hum it on occasion
The tune is Colonel Bogey. Its a military march.
The tune is the Colnel Bogey March, by the way.
You really wanna do the Ahead of His Time Pianist, it'll probably floor you! 🤣
I this this sketch loses a lot of meaning if you didn’t know the song before. The tune is the Colonel Bogey March which was written in the First World War but perhaps became better known after it was used in The Bridge on the River Kwai.
It's true , very popular with British armed forces during the war . Then, the general population started singing it.
That was lolloping, not skipping!😊
the tune is colonel bogey. This parody was well known by everyone in the uk at the timw
The idea that there has to be a committee has to be the most British thing about this.
Hitler's unitesticularity to the tune of the Colonel Bogie march.
Sang this at school in the 60’s. With the alt lyrics (Albert Hall/Mother)