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Hitler Has Only Got One Ball - Variants of the lyrics
This purported original version is interesting in that Göring has the one ball and Hitler apparently has two:
Göring has only got one ball
Hitler's [are] so very small
Himmler's so very similar
And Goebbels has noebbels at all!
That it starts with Göring and the musical comedy word play of rhyming Goebbels with "noebbels" both argue in favour of this being a very early version.
Variant number 1
Hitler has only got one ball,
Göring has two but very small,
Himmler has something sim'lar,
But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.
Variant number 2
Hitler has only got one ball,
The other is in the Albert Hall
His mother, the dirty bugger,
Cut it off when he was small.
A second verse is sometimes added:
She threw it into a great big tree
It fell in-to the deep blue sea
The fishes grabbed their dishes
And ate scallops and bollocks for tea
A further variant on the above second verse:
She tied it upon a conker tree
The wind came and blew it out to sea
The fishes got out their dishes
And had scallops and bollocks for tea
One more variant on that second verse:
She threw it over Germany,
It landed in the deep blue sea,
The fishes got out their dishes,
And had scallops and bollocks for tea.
Variant number 3
Frankfurt has only one beer hall,
Stuttgart, die München all on call,
Munich, vee lift our tunich,
To show vee "Cherman" have no balls at all.
Variant number 4
Hitler has only got one ball,
The other is in the old town hall,
His mother, she pinched the other,
Now Hitler ain't got none at all!
Variant number 5
Hans Otto is very short, not tall,
And blotto, for drinking Singhai and Skol.
A "Cherman", unlike Bruce Erwin,
Because Hans Otto has no balls at all.
Variant number 6 In Thomas Pynchon's novel V., the following variant is sung by British artillerymen in Malta in 1940.
Hitler has only one left ball
Göring has two but they are small.
Himmler was somewhat similar
And poor old Goebbels has no balls at all
Variant number 7
Hitler, he only had one ball
Göring had two but very small
Himmler, had something sim'lar
And only Goeballs had no-balls at all.
Variant number 8 (as used live by Bette Midler):
Hitler had only one big ball
Göring had two but they were small
Himmler had something sim'lar
And poor old Goeballs had no balls at all.
Variant number 9
Hitler has only one left ball,
Goebbels has two but they're quite small
Himmler has something sim'lar,
And Mussolini hasn't any at all!
Variant number 10
Hitler has only one brass ball,
The other, is hanging on the wall
His mother, the dirty bugger,
Cut it off when he was small!
Variant number 11
Hitler - he only has one ball
Hitler - the other's on the wall
Himmler - has something sim'lar
And Stalin has no balls at all
Variant number 12
Hitler has only got one ball
Göring has two but rather small
Himmler has something sim'lar
And Doctor Göbbels has no-balls at all.
A new variant describes the three dictators at the time instead of just the Nazi party. The first line describes Hitler or Stalin having "just one ball." The second line describes the other one who was not used in the first as having "no balls at all." The next two lines go, "Mussolini, was such a weenee/ That he just, let them faaall."
Introductory Verse (Sung to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory, and followed by some variant of this rhyme.)
Land of soap and water,
Hitler's having a bath.
Churchill's looking through the keyhole,
Having a jolly good laugh
Be..e..e..e..cause...
Hitler — has only [etc]
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