Monday, December 7, 2009

Jingle Bells, Shotgun Shells

For the kid who just doesn't think "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells" is violent enough, there's also this, which took my Iowa school by storm in 1990:

Jingle bells, shotgun shells,
Santa Claus is dead
Rudolph took a 44
and shot him in the head

Barbie doll, Barbie Doll
tried to save his life
GI Joe, GI Joe
stabbed him (or her) with a knife
HUH!


(I don't really know how to spell the grunt we threw in at the end). Probabaly goes back to at least the 1960s, but Barbie Doll and GI Joe wouldn't have shown up before then. I would imagine variations on it go to the 50s, at least, though. What did YOU used to sing?

14 comments:

  1. There was a one that went:

    Jingle Bells,
    Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg,
    the Batmobile lost a wheel and
    Santa... *did something*

    I never did learn the last line correctly.

    (Toronto, Canada, 2000s)

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    1. We sang:
      Jingle Bells
      Batman Smells
      Robin Laid an egg
      The Batmobile
      Lost a wheel
      and the Joker got away

      in Southern California in the mid-late 70's

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    2. Santa did ballet*

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  2. err never mind about the last comment, i didnt see the earlier post about it -___-

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  3. Jingle bells, shot gun shells, santa is dead. GI Joe the Eskimo, shot him in the Head. Barbie Doll Barbie Doll tried to save his life, but GI Joe, the Eskimo stabbed her with his knife...
    Oooooh, dashing through the snow, in a one gun open slay, over the fields we go, shooting all the way bangbangbang
    Bells on bobtails ring no more, there's a big hole in the floor. We shot the horse, he died of course, and then we said WHOA!

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  4. I think I was in first grade, in 1959 (so it was going around before then), when I learned this version:

    Jingle Bells
    Shotgun shells
    Santa Claus is dead
    Threw him down
    the cellar stairs
    and shot him in the head.

    Of course Mom thought it was too violent, which made it more memorable.

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  5. No no no it was jingle bells shotguns shells BB''s through the air oh what fun it is to see Santa's underwear!

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  6. Jingle Bells
    Jungle Bells
    VCs in the grass
    Take your merry christmas tree
    And shove it up your ass!

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  7. This is the version I heard in high school in about 1975 or '76 in Stamford, Conn. I should note that the school (the classes I was in, anyway) had a substantial Jewish population. Warning -- if you think anything else around here is offensive or objectionable -- well:

    (to the tune of Jingle Bells)

    Rolling through Berlin
    In a black Mercedes Benz
    Gunning down the Jews
    Making lots of friends!

    Rat-tat-tat! Rat-tat-tat!
    Shoot the bastards down!
    Oh what fun it is to see
    The Nazis come to town!

    Ship them to the camps
    Work them til they drop
    As long as we have Zyklon-B
    The fun will never stop!

    Rat-tat-tat! etc.

    (my apologies...)

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  8. Note: comments with links to selling firearms and ammo will be deleted at once, and the people posting them can go to hell (and take Wayne LaPierre with them).

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  9. Jingle Bells, Shotgun shells, BB's all the way
    Oh what fun it is to ride in a
    Tin-Can Chevrolet
    Cops smell Cops smell, 90 miles away....Popeye

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  10. Dashing through the snow,
    In a four door Chevrolet.
    O'er the hills we go,
    Toking all the way.
    We're all high on grass,
    The cops are on our ass.
    We're gonna spend the night in jail,
    Unless we can make bail.

    Jingle Bells, shotgun shells,
    Bullets in the grass.
    Take your merry Christmas wish,
    And shove it up your ass.

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  11. I heard two versions of this "jingle" back in the 70's. One was "naughty," according to my mother, and the other one was pure racist (this was in the South in the 1970's)

    Version 1
    Jingle bells, shotgun shells
    Rabbits all the way.
    One jumped up, and I shot him in the butt,
    and the other got away.

    Version 2
    Jingle bells, shotgun shells
    Granny's got a gun.
    Pulled the trigger, shot a ni***r,
    Back in '61.

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