Childhood Mysteries Resolved By the World Wide Web, No. 64327

[fflo]

"Whistle while you work.
Hitler was a jerk;
Mussolini ___ ___ ______---
Now it doesn't work."

What were they saying? I couldn't figure out it. Now I know!

Comments

OW!!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Ain't google grand?

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

Ooookay. That's one I'd never heard.

(I know a few nasty WWII era dittys, but not that one.)

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

That was a popular one in my elementary school. None of us knew who Mussolini was, but that wasn't the bit that had us entertained, obviously.

[groovesinorbit]

That's a new one on me. I was singing "On Top of Spaghetti" when I was kid.

Teach your children well

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Now I'm going to have another one of these things to teach Jeff--I'd forgotten about the one in your post.

". . . Batmobile lost a wheel,
and Joker got away."