[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5u9JSnAAU4 - Tom Scott, 'I Asked 64,182 People About “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's What I Found Out.'
https://www.reddit.com/r/FoundPaper/comments/1p7bvtz/found_n...
All boiling in a pot
A load of soot came tumbling down
and spoiled the blinking lot
Alternative. The Angel of the Lord came down and eat the blinking lot.
Definitely British. Evidenced by the term 'kidney bean'
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer *(reindeer)*
Had a very shiny nose *(like a light bulb)*
And if you ever saw it *(saw it)*
You would even say it glows *(like a light bulb)*
All of the other reindeer *(reindeer)*
Used to laugh and call him names *(like Pinochio)*
They never let poor Rudolph *(Rudolph)*
Play in any reindeer games *(like Monopoly)*
Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say *(Ho Ho Ho)*
Rudolph with your nose so bright Won't you guide my sleigh tonight? Then all the reindeer loved him *(loved him)*
And they shouted out with glee *(yippee)*
"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer *(reindeer)*
You'll go down in history!" *(Like George Washington!")*
a (original?) version is from 1975 on john denver's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Christmas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster
Hopefully I'll get to see it sometime.
Don't ask, it's not original with me.
Edit: Oh, it's simple. This is the version broadcast on The Simpsons TV show in 1989 and I must have heard it second-hand from my fellow students who were allowed to watch the Simpsons.
RIGGING UP THE LIGHTS!!
Yo-ho, sending Christmas cards.
The damn lightS!!!
Facing my in laws!
One light goes out, they all go out!!!!!!!
FiiiiiIIIIIIiiiive months of bills!!
She's a witch, I hate her.
You're so smart, YOU rig up the lights!
R.I.P. Meathead
Reminds me of the “Misheard Joe Cocker Lyrics” video: https://vimeo.com/448217206
Robin flew away
Mr silly bit his willy on the M1 motorway.
I seem to remember hearing the standard US one in the bit at the end of The Cosby Show, which was on free to air TV soon after getting home from school.
Robin laid an egg. Batmobile lost its wheel and the commissioner broke his leg...I think.
> so let's just do a little experiment here ... um ... so if I say Jingle Bells Batman Smells you say ...
> okay where did you learn that? If that's not a movie reference; it's not not from a TV show; you learn that the way I learned that you learned that - on the playground. You learned that from another eight-year-old another seven-year-old ...
"Dashing through the snow - - on a pair of broken skis - - -"
"Down the hills we go - - - Crashing into trees!"
"The snow is turning red - - I think I'm almost dead - -"
"And now I'm in the hospital with stitches in my head! Oh, -"
"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg! - - -"
"Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker played ballet! HEY!"
"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Granny got a gun, - - -"
"? ? ?, and shot a man in 1931! HEY!!!" ? ? ?, ? ? ? ?, in nineteen thirty one. Hey!Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells why won’t they shut up
Being chased by werewolves, ain’t this just my luck
Dashing through the gloom
In a one-horse open cart
Trying to escape the doom
Where Werewolves eat my heart
You had to read the tome
And utter the mad curse
Now if we get home
I’m sure it’s in a hearse
Ohhhh…
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells why won’t they shut up
Being chased by werewolves, ain’t this just my luck
"Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away, Wonder Woman lost her boobs - flying TAA."
Context note : TAA or Trans Australia Airlines was a major Australian domestic airline of the time, later merged into Qantas.
(aka "The Munchkin's Theme" ) (to the tune of "Jingle Bells")
Slashing through the Orcs
With a good two-handed blade
Over corpses we go
And through the gore we wade
Mace on helmet rings
Making bodies fly
What fun to sing our Slaying Song
And watch these suckers DIE!
https://hack.org/~mc/writings/hackerdom/ring-their-bells.tex...
Not what I was looking for, but I found these: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJtJNNXaEYrrZP99qBx-k...
From this guy's page: https://www.paperspencils.com/category/my-projects/dd-christ...
Ah! I think I found the ones that I was thinking of:
https://archive.org/stream/netbookofbardsongs/BardSongsNetBo...
Nothing about Jack Frost or "ripping", unfortunately.
It's obviously rhyming with the original song, which has "all the way" and "sleigh".
I.e. you need at least the final "ay" in order to properly evoke that phonetic aspect of the original.
ItsBob•1mo ago
However, we both agreed that when comparing the UK(ish) and US(ish) variants, the UK ones are much more fun and colourful: The US ones seem a little, erm, boring!