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Jingle Bells, Batman Smells

2006/01/09 By Rob 512 Comments

I’ve been reading Games and Songs of American Children by William Wells Newell, a Dover reprint of the 1903 edition. I find it fascinating how games are transmitted from generation to generation, games like “Tag”, “Button button who has the button?”, “The church and the steeple” or “Odd or even?” These games are not learned from teachers in a school, or read in a book, or typically even taught from parents. For the most part they are transmitted from child to child, from an older sibling, or a peer, through the most casual pathways.  Games like this have spread across the country and beyond without any overt effort. In a way, it is like language.

So, that made me think about the “classic” children’s Christmas parody of “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. I assume there is no part of this country where these words are not known to every child. But it exists in no songbook. Who first sang these words, and when and where was it done? How fast did it travel? I think if a sufficient survey was done of adults of various ages, as to when and where they recall first hearing these lyrics, one could reconstruct the migration of this bit of modern folklore. Those who heard it earliest would have heard it closer to its source.

It would help my little research if any old-timers (say over 40 years old) left a comment indicating what version you heard first, where you heard it (town and state) and approximately what year you heard it. I’d like to figure out what the original version truly was, and where it came from and how fast it spread.

There are several variants of this song. The one I grew up with was:

Jingle Bells, Batman smells
Robin laid an egg.
The Batmobile lost a wheel
and the Joker got away (Hey!)

Other commonly reported versions include:

Shotgun shells, Santa smells,
Rudolf ran away,
Oh what fun it is to ride
in a beat-up Chevrolet!

or

Jingle bells, shotgun shells,
Santa Claus is dead,
Rudolf got a .22
and shot him in the head.

or

Jingle Bells, Shotgun Shells,
BB’s in the air.
Oh, what fun it is to ride
in Santa’s underwear!”

or

Jingle Bells, Batman smells
Robin laid an egg,
The Batmobile lost a wheel,
and the Joker joined ballet , Hey!

Check the comments for other variations. Some have alternate lyrics to the verse as well as the chorus.

Also, if you are interesting in crazy Christmas music, then here are two CD’s, filled with zany holiday classics, for your consideration:


12 December 2015 Update

Nine years after I wrote this post I was prompted by Robert Evans over at Cracked to offer updated thoughts on the question of the origins of “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells.”  We both went through the comments on this post, correlated the dates and places, and I then did further research in newspaper archives to try to locate the earliest printed occurrence of these lines.   What we found out might surprise you.  More over at The Secret True History of “Jingle Bells Batman Smells.”

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  1. Anonymous says

    2006/07/22 at 1:40 pm

    Southeast PA, early 70’s, Your version, and also two other parodies of Jingle Bells:
    1.
    Shotgun shells, Santa smells, Rudolf ran away, Oh what fun it is to ride in a beat-up Chevrolet!
    2. Jingle bells, shotgun shells,
    Santa Claus is dead,
    Rudolf got a .22 and shot him in the head.

    Reply
    • Samantha says

      2013/12/15 at 4:57 am

      Scary Eyes,batman scares
      Santa Runs away
      someone helped the elves on the way ,
      jump up and say hey!

      Reply
    • Adam says

      2015/12/24 at 1:25 pm

      Jingle bells batman smell Robin did a fart joker came sniffed it in and almost lost his heart

      Reply
    • Anna says

      2016/12/30 at 7:15 am

      Jingle bells batman smell robin flew away Wonder Woman lost her buzums and this all happened on Christmas Day hayp

      Reply
    • Amodrae says

      2017/11/22 at 1:33 pm

      Jiggle bells ,Batman smells
      Robin laid a egg
      Shot a tree and made it pee in 1961

      Hey!

      Reply
    • Jackie Meyer says

      2021/11/05 at 2:07 pm

      Jingle Bells, shotgun shells Santa Claus is dead. G.I. Joe and the Eskimo shot him in the head

      Reply
  2. Anonymous says

    2006/08/12 at 10:17 am

    I’m researching this, too, and happened upon this post. Thought I’d add that growing up, we always sang…

    “Jingle Bells, Shotgun Shells, BeeBees in the air. Oh, what fun it is to ride in Santa’s underwear!”

    Creepy, I know.

    Reply
    • caitlyn says

      2015/12/18 at 1:27 pm

      well me and my bff sings this 1

      jingle bells , batman smells
      robin flew away
      uncle billy lost his willy
      on a motorway
      hey

      Reply
      • GiGi says

        2016/07/01 at 4:35 pm

        Me and My BFF sing Jingle Bells Batman Smells, Robin Laid an Egg….Uncle Billy lost his little Jimmy on the More Reay HEY!

        Reply
      • Daisy says

        2017/01/02 at 4:18 pm

        Same! We sing it every Christmas.

        Reply
  3. Anonymous says

    2006/11/19 at 6:19 pm

    Well, what is new is to say “Jingle Bells ,batman smells Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel ,and joker joined ballet , Hey!”

    Reply
    • Kian says

      2017/11/24 at 8:42 pm

      My friend and I sing: Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. I shot a tree and made it pee in 1883! Hey!

      Reply
  4. Anonymous says

    2006/12/11 at 5:05 pm

    My husband’s contribution, Vancouver BC, ca 1965?? Only the first part is certain, the rest is now in scraps and tatters, and if anyone can help ?

    Jingle bells, jingle bells, Santa Claus is dead,
    Someone took a beebee gun and shot him in the head, hey!

    Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh,
    Hunting down the elves, laughing all the way

    (Bells on bob-tail ring,
    making spirits bright — there MAY have been something in this phrase about blood on the snow, but that’s one of the lost parts)
    Oh what fun it is to ride and sing a slaying song tonight, hey!

    Anybody recognize this one?

    Reply
    • Lily says

      2014/04/16 at 7:11 am

      We had something about blood on the snow, although the other lyrics are different…

      Dashing through the snow
      On a pair of broken skis
      Through the fields we go
      Crashing into trees

      The snow is turning red
      It’s coming from my head
      Someone phone an ambulance
      I think I’m almost dead!

      (Then we segued into the old Batman one, not sure why)

      Jingle bells, Batman smells
      Robin flew away
      The Batmobile lost a wheel
      on the motorway

      Reply
      • Alexia says

        2016/12/23 at 11:28 am

        That one is hilarious

        Reply
      • person says

        2017/10/11 at 11:44 am

        mine is similar it’s:
        dashing through the snow
        on a pair of broken skis
        through the fields we go
        crashing into trees
        my face is turning red
        i think im almost dead
        i woke up in the hospital with stitches in my head

        Reply
      • Aubrey Westmoreland says

        2018/04/24 at 8:09 pm

        We did something similar, it was

        Dashing through the snow
        On a pair of broken skies
        Ore the fields we go
        Crashing into trees

        The snow it turning red
        I think I might be dead
        I woke up in the hospital with stitches in my head!

        Reply
    • Joey says

      2014/08/22 at 9:06 pm

      Jingle Bells
      Batman smells
      A million miles away
      blew his nose
      On cheerios
      and at them everyday (or anyway)

      Reply
    • Anoymonis says

      2017/11/18 at 5:06 pm

      This is the one I know that had some of that in it

      Dashing through the snow with a pair of broken skies over the hills we go crashing into trees the snow is glowing red I think I’m almost dead I woke up in the hospital with stitches in my head oooh 9 1 1 9 1 1 Santa Claus is dead rodolph took a .44 and shot him in the head oh Barbie doll Barbie doll tries to save his life but g.i. Joe from Mexico staped him with a knife

      Reply
      • Lily says

        2019/12/20 at 10:58 pm

        Jingle bells,Batman smells,Robin Laid A gun,Then Shot A tree and made it pee in 1983 (AYE)

        Reply
  5. Anonymous says

    2006/12/22 at 9:38 am

    this is one i learned when i was about 7 or 8, “jingle bells batman smells, robin laid an egg! batmobile lost a wheel and joker took ballet hey! dashing through the snow on a broken pair of skis over hills we go, crashing into trees hahaha the snow is turning red, i think im almost dead, will someone call an ambulance before i lose my head hey! not a very good song to be singing at 7 years old i kno but what can you do?

    Reply
    • Lorn says

      2019/12/27 at 8:46 am

      I wish I could remember the whole song,
      Jingle bells Jingle bells robin laid an egg, the bat mobile lost a wheel and the joker got away, (the verse or verses next is what I can’t remember but it ends with) Barbie doll Barbie doll tried to save his life but GI Joe the eskimo stabbed her with a knife.
      I grew up in a small place called ElCajon California in the mid to early 70’s I am thinking

      Reply
      • Amrus says

        2021/11/09 at 10:14 pm

        That’s the one I grew up with in Alaska!

        Reply
  6. Z says

    2007/06/20 at 6:32 pm

    the last song goes
    Dashing through the snow on a pair of broken skis and crashing into trees the snow is turning red i think im almost dead but i wake up in a hospital bed with stiches in my head Hey 911 911 barneys on the run and i forget the rest of the song so am gonna say HEY

    Reply
  7. Anonymous says

    2007/07/18 at 8:14 pm

    there’s this one:
    dashing through the snow
    on a pair of broken skiis
    oner the hills we go
    crashing throgh the trees

    the snow is really red
    i think im almost dead
    they rushed me to the hospital
    i almost lost my head!

    Reply
    • Giacomo L says

      2015/10/11 at 11:32 pm

      Dashing through the snow on a pair of broken skis
      Over the hills we go crashing through the trees
      The snow is turning red
      I think I’m almost dead
      I woke up in the hospital with stitches in my head (hey!)
      911 911 babies robbing the bank!
      Gi-joe from Mexico
      Shot her with a tank!
      Oh! Jingle bells
      Batman smells
      Robin laid an egg
      Batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away…..

      Reply
      • Aubrey Westmoreland says

        2018/04/24 at 8:11 pm

        The first part is what we sang too

        Reply
      • Georgia says

        2018/10/29 at 8:39 am

        I sing
        Jingle bells bat man smells robin laid a gun
        Shot himself in pizza hut in 1981
        Oh Barbie girl Barbie girl tried to save his life
        But teddy bear teddy bear stabbed her with a knife😊

        Reply
  8. Anonymous says

    2007/11/26 at 2:48 pm

    jingle bells, jingle bells, santa clause is dead rudolph took a 22 and shot him in the head barbie doll barbie doll tried to save his life but GI joe from mexico stabed her with a knife. That’s a pretty bad one.

    Reply
    • Landon says

      2015/11/05 at 12:02 pm

      Another one

      Jingle bells, shotgun shells,
      Granny got a gun
      shot that deer in the rear
      Unknown

      Reply
      • iza says

        2017/12/26 at 6:21 pm

        jingle bells, shot gun shells there is a bombing run i play call of so i dont get done for my duty

        Reply
      • Laural says

        2017/12/29 at 6:44 pm

        Jingle bell shotgun shells grandmas for a gun pulled the trigger shot at figure now she’s on the run

        Reply
    • animous says

      2017/12/26 at 6:20 pm

      jingle bells, shot gun shells there is a bombing run i play call of so i dont get done for my duty

      Reply
    • Liam says

      2018/09/14 at 10:00 am

      Our Rural Australian Version went along the same lines with
      Jingle bells
      Batman Smells
      Robin laid an egg
      Santa got his 22
      and shot him in the head
      woo
      Barbie doll Barbie doll (also sometimes teddy bear teddy bear)
      Tried to save his life
      Cat-woman, Cat-woman
      stabbed him with a knife

      Reply
  9. Anonymous says

    2007/12/20 at 6:44 pm

    I got one and here it is:

    Dashing through the snow
    on a pair of broken skis
    over the hills we go
    crashing through the trees!
    Oh my god!

    The snow is turnin’ red
    I think I’m almost dead
    I woke up in a hospital bed
    with stitches in my head!

    911,
    911,
    Calling 911,
    while I’m on my broken skis,
    I’m saying “Oh what fun”
    Hey!

    Reply
    • isana says

      2013/01/11 at 1:43 pm

      that doesint make sense only the 1v does

      Reply
      • Nunu says

        2017/12/22 at 6:15 pm

        That doesn’t make sense you doing to much 😂😆😄🤐

        Reply
  10. Anonymous says

    2007/12/20 at 8:58 pm

    ahah ok heres one
    jingle bells
    batman smells robbin layed an egg,
    batmobil lost its wheel and joker got away
    hey!
    batmans in the kitchen
    robbins in the hall
    jokers in the bathroom peeing on the wall !…
    ahah i just heard that one

    Reply
    • Chris A says

      2015/01/30 at 10:34 am

      I remember ‘thinking’ that I had writen:
      “Batmans in the kitchen,
      Robins in the hall,
      Jokers in the bathroom, peeing on the wall” in response to ‘jingle bells, batman smells” around 1988 in GA. A year or so later, I remember having an argument with a friend that I had written that, but he claimed to hear it in KY around the same time I ‘wrote it’. I found this site because I had the same question.. how quickly do these spread? And, perhaps, I subconsciously heard it before that, but I can remember working out the rhyme and feeling accomplish as a 5 or 6 year old.

      Reply
      • David A says

        2015/12/31 at 9:39 pm

        Human memory inserting details is a funny thing 8) I used to sing that with my second grade class, which would have been 1981. It was sung to the opening tune of “Lulu Had a Baby”.

        Reply
  11. Anonymous says

    2007/12/22 at 8:22 am

    HERE’S 1!!!

    dashing through the snow on a pair of broken skis over the cliffs I go, crashing into trees
    the snow is turning red, I think I’m almost dead. I woke up in the hospital with stitches in my head
    O
    911 911 call it all the way
    O what fun it is to ride in an ambulance all day HEY
    911 911 call it all the way O. what. fun. it. is. to. ride. in. a.
    one
    horse
    o-pen
    sleeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

    Reply
  12. Anonymous says

    2007/12/22 at 12:03 pm

    When doing the broken pair of skis version, be sure to add “ow, ow, ow” after crashing into trees.

    Reply
  13. Anonymous says

    2007/12/24 at 3:25 pm

    I first heard it (the first version you list) in Minneapolis around 1974 while in 6th grade

    Reply
  14. Anonymous says

    2008/01/05 at 11:54 pm

    Batman’s in the kitchen,
    Robin’s in the hall,
    Joker’s in the bathroom
    peeing on the wall.
    Penguin’s on the potty,
    His arms too short to wipe,
    Catwoman’s in the litter box
    And the Riddler smokes a pipe.
    O, Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg,
    The Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away!

    Reply
    • Kimm says

      2014/02/11 at 12:13 pm

      This is the one I learned in 1975

      Reply
  15. Nikki says

    2008/05/27 at 6:23 pm

    jingle bells,
    batman smells,
    robin layed an egg!
    the batmobile lost a wheel,
    and joker`s song is gay!
    oooooh..
    jingle bells,
    shotgun shells,
    mad hatter is dead!
    robin got a .22,
    and shot him in the head!
    ooooooooh!

    *chorus*
    prancing through the snow,
    joker has his day,
    taking all the jewls,
    laughing all the way!
    mwa hah hah!

    next verse:

    batmans in the kitchen,
    robins in the hall,
    jokers on the porch,
    peeing on the wall! penguins on the potty, his arms too short to wipe,
    catwomans in the litter box,
    and robin smokes a pipe!

    theres more but i cant remember…

    Reply
  16. Nikki says

    2008/05/28 at 7:06 pm

    Deck the Halls with laughing gases
    mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
    watch batman kick those guys asses
    mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
    cant they see im geting away?
    mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
    robins too busy being gay
    ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
    jokers leaving in a haste
    dun da da dun da, da da da da.
    not fast enuff, they smashed his face
    Fa la la la la la, la la la.
    in arkum they give a toast
    Fa la la la la, la la la la.
    to the clown with a smashed nose
    ha ha ha ha haaa ha ha ha haaaaa!

    Reply
  17. Nikki says

    2008/05/28 at 7:07 pm

    Robin the red dressed hero
    batmans very first sidekick
    he never took good orders
    prolly why his name is dick

    bruce was a bit strict on him
    while they kept crime at bay
    he always bossed poor Robin
    ever since that one day

    That one day at the trapeze
    that Brucey came to say:
    “Robin with your mind so bright
    wont you try on these cool tights?”

    Then how the villions hated him
    stressed him out til he was angry
    left the roll to tim drake
    then came the night wing!!

    Reply
  18. BRIDGET and AUSTIN says

    2008/07/19 at 6:36 pm

    Jingle bells batman smells
    Robin laid a gun
    Shot a deer in the rear
    in 1981

    Reply
  19. gcovert says

    2008/08/25 at 7:56 pm

    I first heard the classic:

    Jingle bells, batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The batmobile
    Lost its wheel
    And the Joker ran away-hey!

    In the early ’70s growing up in Rhode Island. I heard it throughout my childhood, next in New Hampshire, and then in Virginia. Hope this helps track it down…I’m curious too!

    Reply
    • Mary says

      2013/11/21 at 4:15 am

      In Massachusetts, in the early ’70s, I learned:

      Jingle bells, Batman smells
      Robin laid an egg

      shot him in the leg

      Barbie doll, barbie doll
      Tried to save his life, but
      G I Joe the eskimo
      Stabbed her with his knife

      (note: found this site while searching online for the missing lyric. Haven’t seen anything like this yet!)

      Reply
      • Northern Gunner says

        2014/11/07 at 12:55 am

        Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
        Santa Claus is dead,
        GI Joe the Eskimo,
        Shot him in the head

        Barbie Doll, Barbie Doll,
        Tried to save his life,
        GI Joe the Eskimo
        Stabbed her with his knife

        Reply
  20. Nikki says

    2008/08/26 at 10:55 am

    its obvious where the carols stemmed from! in the actual series joker sings the song in a christmas episode. then other ppl made thier own versions and then on and so forth

    Reply
    • Brian says

      2013/12/25 at 3:31 pm

      Are you referring to the animated series? I recall the song from elementary school in the 70’s, long before the cartoon series was created.

      Reply
  21. Anonymous says

    2008/09/26 at 4:19 am

    Here’s one we sang back in the 70s growing up in Australia……….

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
    Robin flew away
    Father Christmas lost his whiskers
    Flying TAA – Hey!

    FYI – TAA stands for Trans Australia Airlines and was the national airline of Oz back in those days.

    Reply
    • Anne Dixon says

      2016/12/07 at 6:40 am

      1960s Australia we sang
      Jingle bells Batman smells Robin ran away. Father Christmas lost his whiskers smoking Craven A.
      (Craven Awas a brand of cigarettes available at that time).

      Reply
  22. Anonymous says

    2008/10/27 at 1:12 pm

    Doubt it’ll be much help, but in the 90s the definitive version in PA, NJ, and NY was
    “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg
    The batmobile lost a wheel
    And Joker took ballet”

    Reply
  23. Anonymous says

    2008/11/11 at 7:33 am

    Also another one from Australia from the 70’s that I learnt was
    Jingle Bells, Batman smells Robin Ran away, Wonder Woman lost her bosoms flying T.A.A

    Reply
    • Mardi Lehman says

      2016/12/21 at 5:59 am

      I grew up in the 80’s,
      and I also recall something very similar,
      ‘Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away,
      Wonder Woman lost her boobs flying T.A.A’

      TAA = (Trans Australian Airlines)

      Reply
    • Tim Wilson says

      2017/12/18 at 4:15 am

      Another +1 for this version in Australia. I grew up in Melbourne, and this is what we sang in primary school (circa 1978). There were other verses, but too rude for my sensitive little ears to remember :)

      Reply
  24. Anonymous says

    2008/11/29 at 3:44 pm

    when i was 8 wen i herd one that goes like this: jingle bells batman smells robin flew away uncle billy lost his willy on the motorway hey!
    but very rude:(

    Reply
  25. Anonymous says

    2008/12/07 at 7:41 pm

    Jingel Bells, Shotgun Shells,
    Santa Claus is dead,
    tried to steal my sneakers
    so I shot him in the head.
    Ohio. Late 70’s/early 80’s.

    Reply
  26. Anonymous says

    2008/12/12 at 10:42 pm

    Dashing through the snow,on a pair of broken skis,down the hill we go,crashing into trees. The snow is turning red,oh my gosh santa claus he’s dead! Oh, 911,911 santa’s really dead! Oh barbie doll,barbie doll tried yo save his life. But GI Joe from Mexico stabbed her with a knife!

    Reply
  27. Anonymous says

    2008/12/15 at 10:14 am

    Here’s the Sesame Street version:
    Jingle bells, Oscar smells,
    Bid Bird laid an egg.
    Mr. Hooper had a pooper,
    On Christmas day, Hey!

    Reply
  28. Anonymous says

    2008/12/17 at 2:03 pm

    JINGLE BELLS, SANTA SMELLS,
    50 MILES AWAY
    BLOWS HIS NOSE, IN CHERIOS,
    AND EATS THEM EVERYDAY, HEY

    Reply
    • Eric says

      2014/03/28 at 10:32 am

      I heard this Cheerios version, as well as Joker got away/joined ballet in Salem, OR in 1981.

      Reply
  29. taffa says

    2008/12/17 at 6:54 pm

    Jingle Bells
    Batman Smells
    Robin laid a leg.

    That leg once belonged to the joker
    Hey!

    Scropion’s attacking Batman
    Burning him to hell
    how did he get here hey
    He’s supposed to be in Mortal Kombat
    With Barraka
    While getting sliced
    with those giant sword things!

    Now it’s 2045
    Batman can’t even see
    and joker’s on a killing spree!
    Hey!
    (I just made it up as I went along!)

    Reply
  30. Anonymous says

    2008/12/18 at 9:21 pm

    North Alabama, early 80s

    Jingle Bells, Shotgun shells
    Granny has a gun!
    Shot me in the underwear
    and boy I had to run!

    Reply
  31. Anonymous says

    2008/12/21 at 4:57 pm

    Anyone know teh last woprds to this one I remember from school/
    Jungle bells Batman smells Robyn ran away. Wonder Woman lost her busoms….

    I seem to remember that it list a few other “heroes as well

    Reply
  32. Anonymous says

    2008/12/22 at 7:26 pm

    jingle bells batman smells
    robin laid an egg!
    batmobile lost its wheel
    and joker played ballet! hey!

    Reply
  33. Anonymous says

    2008/12/24 at 2:40 am

    Jingle bells, shotgun shells,
    Granny had a gun,
    Pulled that trigger and
    Shot that N*****
    in 1961.

    Reply
    • Phil says

      2014/12/25 at 4:25 pm

      I heard it end with “Look at granny run”.

      Reply
  34. Anonymous says

    2008/12/24 at 2:05 pm

    Silght variation on the Batman one where I grew up.

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The batmobile just lost a wheel, and now the Batman’s dead!

    Reply
  35. Anonymous says

    2008/12/31 at 11:54 pm

    Thanks!! we found this site after hearing a child say
    “Jingle Bells Batman smells
    Robin got a gun
    Shot a tree Made it pee
    And Joker got away”

    and wondering what was up with that.

    Reply
  36. Anonymous says

    2009/03/03 at 9:59 pm

    Jingle bells,
    batman smells,
    robin layed a gun,
    shot a tree and
    made it pee in
    1981

    MY PARODY
    Santa Claus, Santa Claus,
    Santa Claus is dead,
    Rudolf jacked a 4.4
    And shot him in the head,

    Oh,

    Barbie doll, Barbie doll,
    Tried to save his life,
    But Scrooge’s son grabbed her thin neck
    And stabbed her with a knife.

    Escaping through the snow,
    On two pairs of broken skis,
    Over huge hills they go,
    Smashing into trees,

    Snow ‘round them ‘s turning red,
    Rudolf (literally) lost his head,
    They end up in a hospital
    Chained tightly to their bed,

    ‘Cause

    Santa Claus, Santa Claus,
    Santa Claus is dead,
    Rudolf jacked a 4.4
    And shot him in the head,

    And

    Barbie doll, Barbie doll,
    Tried to save his life,
    But Scrooge’s son grabbed her thin neck
    And stabbed her with a knife.

    Reply
  37. Anonymous says

    2009/04/25 at 11:21 pm

    Dashing through the snow,
    On two old broken skiis.
    I think I broke my knees.

    The snow is turning red.
    I think I’m almost dead.
    Ten years in the hospital with stitches in my head.

    Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells,
    granny got a gun.
    Shot a deer, in the rear in 1941. HEY!

    Reply
  38. Anonymous says

    2009/05/16 at 4:15 pm

    This was how me and my son sing it.Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Bat Mobil lost its wheel and crashed in to hedge
    HEY!

    Batman’s is a so camp.
    And Robin is a fool.
    The Jokers in the Batman’s house peeing on the walls
    HEY!

    Dashing through the snow
    on a pair of broken skis
    over the hills he goes
    crashing through the trees.
    HEY!

    The snow is really red
    I think he’s almost dead
    Batman’s rushed to hospital
    he almost lost his head.
    HEY!

    Jingle bells, Jingle bells
    Jingle all the way.
    O what fun it is to ride
    in batman’s Chevrolet.

    From Tim and James UK

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  39. Anonymous says

    2009/07/24 at 12:50 pm

    Hi Rob,

    I'm 51, and the first version I remember is the first one you posted. I'm sue I first heard it in '66… I was 8, and the Batman TV show was brand new.

    Thanks for posting

    Caby Smith

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  40. Anonymous says

    2009/11/22 at 1:06 am

    The VErsion I know goes

    Jingle Bells
    Batman Smells
    Robin layed an egg
    rudolph got a 22. and shot
    him in the head

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  41. Amanda says

    2009/12/06 at 12:30 am

    We also sang in Mississippi:

    Jingle Bells,Shotgun Shells
    Grandma's got a gun
    Shot me in the underwear and boy I had to run!

    Someone from Alabama made the same post. I guess it's a Southern thing! We sang this version as children in the 80's, but I'm sure it was around before then.

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    • Tammie says

      2016/11/13 at 8:34 pm

      we used to say it that way in the mid 70s in Memphis

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  42. Anonymous says

    2009/12/06 at 8:19 pm

    Kids on the West Side of Manhattan have taught me:
    Dashing through the snow
    on a pair of broken skis
    o'er the fields we go
    And crashing into trees
    The sno is turning red
    I think Im almost dead
    All I want for Christmas is an artificial head
    oh 9-1-1-, 9-1-1
    Someone call the cops
    Take me to the hospital and feed me lollipops!

    But as a child on Long Island in the 70's we sang
    Jingle Bells
    Batman Smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The Batmobile broke it's wheel and the Joker got away!

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  43. Anonymous says

    2009/12/08 at 2:02 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg,
    Uncle Billy lost his willy,
    on the motorway hey!

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  44. Zymosian says

    2009/12/12 at 2:03 pm

    Jingle Hell

    Jingle bells, Santa smells,
    The reindeers flew away;
    The elves are sick
    The snow is thick:
    We all hate Christmas Day.

    Jingle Bells, the turkey smells,
    The stuffing's thick and grey;
    The sprouts are old,
    The sauce is cold:
    We all hate Christmas Day.

    Jingle Bells, the rector smells,
    The curate he looks gay;
    The church bell rings,
    The choir sings:
    We all hate Christmas Day.

    Jingle bells, Granddad smells,
    Grandma wants her way,
    Dad is mad,
    Mum is sad:
    We all hate Christmas Day.

    Zymosian. 12th December, 2009

    By me

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    • Cold days says

      2014/11/24 at 4:36 pm

      That is the most wonderful jingle bells ever. I appreciate your genius.

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  45. thecellogirl -read this and smile says

    2009/12/20 at 4:16 pm

    the x-factor version, courtesy of my 10 yr old brother-

    jingle bells, jedward smells,
    simon cowell's gay,
    oh what fun it is to screech
    and ignore what the judges say!

    first heard round belfast, 2009

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  46. scott m says

    2009/12/28 at 12:12 am

    Early 70’s, NE Pennsylvania:

    Joker “RAN” away version.

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  47. Columbine says

    2009/12/29 at 12:39 pm

    This is all really interesting. But the only time I can remember hearing it was on The Simpsons in one of their Christmas shows. And it was:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel,
    And the Joker got away.

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  48. DOUG says

    2009/12/30 at 10:43 am

    Another version, as if sung by an auctioneer at a fast tempo:

    Jingle Bells, but-a-Batman smells but-a-
    Robin laid an egg.
    Frank Sinatra sang this song but it
    Didn’t go this way, hey!
    Jingle Bells, but-a-Batman smells but-a-
    Robin laid an egg.
    Sammy Spear, drank a beer and the
    Band refused to play.

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  49. Duncan says

    2010/01/30 at 6:12 am

    I have one:
    Jiggle bells bat man smells robin has a gun, he shot himself at pizza hut in 1981!

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  50. Jasmine says

    2010/02/28 at 4:44 am

    Try this:
    Jingle bells, dasher smells
    Elfy ran away
    Santa thinks, that Elfy stinks
    I forgot what to say! Hey!

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  51. anononyme says

    2010/04/26 at 10:39 pm

    the one that i remember lerning when i was a kid is:
    jingle bells
    batman smell
    robin laid an egg
    batmobile lost a weel and
    joker played ballet hey

    dashing through the snow
    on a pair of broken skiis
    over the hill we go
    crashing into trees ow ow ow
    the snow is turning red
    i think im gonna die
    and all i want for christmas is a bloodshot through the eye ooh,

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  52. Jon says

    2010/06/02 at 9:41 pm

    jingle bells
    jingle bells
    Robin flew away
    santa claws lost his balls on the m6 moterway , HEY!

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  53. Bree S says

    2010/06/26 at 2:43 am

    heres a good version..

    Jingle balls jingle balls
    my balls are made of brass
    every time the rub together
    sparks fly out my ass

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  54. Bridie says

    2010/09/04 at 1:44 am

    What’s with all the guns??
    We always sang the 70’s version about Wonder woman losing her bosoms.
    Thought I would try a new version for my son- Think I’ll go with a ‘clean’ no-gun one- Thanks!

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    • heathwilder says

      2015/12/21 at 6:50 pm

      I remember this but I never understood it. I always thought it’s be a “when you get older …” thing but still nothing

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  55. zachary and kenzie says

    2010/10/07 at 8:28 pm

    jingle bells jingle bells grandma got a ak47 and shot plum to heaven
    then he fell and he hit his head and now he is dead

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  56. zachary and kenzie says

    2010/10/07 at 8:31 pm

    Jingle bells jingle bells grandma lost her way found a gun and now he is done now she is laughin all way hey hey hey jingle bells jingle bells the police came by one day where did ya find tht gun he asked oh wait i left it here yesterday

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  57. ChuChu says

    2010/11/20 at 5:16 am

    This is the version we were singing in 1970

    Jingle Bells Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    Commissioner lost a leg
    Chief OHare shot himself
    With a .44
    Batgirl fell in pit of tar
    And then there were no more

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  58. Scott says

    2010/11/20 at 10:42 am

    same one you grew up with, Overland Park, Kansas, late 60’s.
    I assume also, that it coincided with the tv show

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  59. Illy says

    2010/11/23 at 12:06 am

    I’m 57 and I have NEVER heard any of these, only the first line of “Jingle Bells, Shotgun Shells,” I guess I just wasn’t cool enough to be included in those “rain deer games…”

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  60. KMC1994 says

    2010/11/23 at 10:50 pm

    Jingle Bells, Santa smells
    Rudolph broke his nose
    Mrs. Clause showed her gauze
    And the elves all ran away
    HEY!!!!!

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  61. Janan says

    2010/12/01 at 3:16 am

    the version I grew up with in the late 70’s early 80’s and this is an Australian version as it refers to TAA which was a old Australian airline

    jingle bells
    batman smells
    robin flew away
    wonder woman lost her bosom flying TAA

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  62. Anonymous says

    2010/12/02 at 12:43 am

    The version I sang was just a little different. On the last line we would sing “And joker turned out gay.”

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  63. Anonymous says

    2010/12/02 at 12:46 am

    @BreeS We sang that one too

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  64. Nocomment says

    2010/12/03 at 8:07 pm

    Here is one

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells 50 miles away
    Oh what fun it is to ride in a 50’s chevorlet!

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  65. Anon says

    2010/12/03 at 8:27 pm

    “Joker ran away” 1970s England

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  66. Shannon says

    2010/12/06 at 1:34 am

    My version, which I heard when I was 5:

    Jingle Bells,
    Something smells,
    Santa Claus is dead
    G.I. Joe and Mickey Mouse,
    Shot him in the head,
    HEY!

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  67. amy says

    2010/12/08 at 9:57 am

    jingle bells, rachel smells, georgiaa is an egg!!!!
    … they lost there pants in the midle of france and pranced and danced and climbed mount everast and bopped around wales!! then fared!:)

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  68. Anonymous says

    2010/12/08 at 10:48 am

    Jingle bells, shotgun shells,
    Santa Claus is dead,
    G.I. Joe, the eskimo,
    Shot him in the head, (Oh!)
    Barbie doll, Barbie doll,
    Tried to save his life,
    But G.I. Joe, the eskimo,
    Stabbed her with a knife.

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  69. janessa says

    2010/12/09 at 9:42 pm

    i heard a song that went, jingel bells, batman smells, robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel, and joker got away, batmans in the kitchen, robins in the hall, jokers in the bathroom peeing on the wall

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  70. Tami M. says

    2010/12/11 at 8:23 pm

    In 1960’s California, we sang:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg,
    Oh what fun it is to ride
    in a beat up Chevrolet.

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    • Ariel orioen Jr says

      2016/07/01 at 7:26 pm

      I got a good one all of you
      Jingle bells
      Shotgun she’ll
      Rudalf ran away
      OH what now
      I think batman likes
      To kick jokers d***

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  71. dave says

    2010/12/12 at 12:43 pm

    i first heard the “joker got away” version around 1970 in pheonix arizona. i’ve never heard the other versions listed here

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  72. hoosier girl says

    2010/12/13 at 2:54 pm

    December 13, 2010

    this one goes way back – I heard it in the early 1950’s but can’t remember all of it

    “Jingle bells, shotgun shells,
    Sheriff’s on his way.
    ———————–
    In a beat-up Chevrolet.”

    does anyone remember the third line? might have been something like “Grandpa’s kissin’ grandma”

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  73. Christmas song says

    2010/12/15 at 4:37 pm

    Got one
    Crashing to the sleigh,
    The snow is turning gray,
    I think the world is going to end in 2010 ole!
    Hey!
    Jingle bells, Dora smells,
    Boots laid an egg, oh what what it is to ride on Dora”s butt,
    hEy

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  74. A.B says

    2010/12/17 at 12:58 pm

    jingle bells my sister smells,
    i don’t really like her,
    she punches me in the face,
    then runs away with grace hey!

    jingle bells jingle bells
    Rudolph is near,
    crap this is getting really really queer
    i think my death is coming near hey!

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  75. Singalong says

    2010/12/18 at 12:21 pm

    Here are two versions we used to sing as children in the 1970s in Massachusetts:

    Jingle bells
    Stinker smells
    Rudolph ran away
    Stuffed his nose
    With Cheerios
    And ate ’em on the way

    And the Batman version was:

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The Batmobile
    Lost it’s wheel
    And joker got away
    (According to my husband who grew up on Long Island in the same era, the last lime of this version should be “A hundred miles away” instead of “And Joker got away”–I’ve never heard that version until I met him in 2001)

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  76. Zach says

    2010/12/19 at 10:24 am

    Vaguely familiar with most of these versions but the one I remember from my childhood in England went:

    Jingle bells, batman smells,
    Robin flew away,
    The batmobile lost it’s wheel,
    And landed in the hay, hey! x2

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  77. Jennifer Griffith says

    2010/12/19 at 6:39 pm

    As a kid in the mid-late ’60s in Indianapolis, the version we sang was, “Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel & the Joker got away.” My husband, who was a kid in Port Arthur, TX, around the same time, substituted Penguin for Joker, but otherwise the same version. However, I do recall 1 of the versions which included shotgun shells, too, but only vaguely.

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  78. haily says

    2010/12/20 at 3:10 pm

    dashing through the snow on a pair of broken skis down the hill we go crashing into trees ow ow ow the snow is turning red i think im almost dead all i wanted for christmas is a hospital bed ooooooooohhhhhhh 911 911 calling 911 while im on broken skis say oh wat fun hey

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  79. Maria Leigh says

    2010/12/21 at 8:58 pm

    Dashing through the snow on a pair of broken skiis,
    Over hills we go,
    bashing into trees!

    Now the snow is red,
    I think I’m almost dead,
    now I’m at the hospital with stitches in my head!

    Oh, Santa Claus, Santa Claus,
    You are very fat!
    I was sleeping peacefully,
    And now my bed is flat, HEY!

    Oh, Santa Claus, Santa Claus,
    How much do you weigh?
    I’m glad I’m not a reindeer,
    That has to pull your sleigh!

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  80. Tim says

    2010/12/22 at 10:38 am

    In my grade school in the mid ’60s when BATMAN was on TV, it was:

    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin ran away.
    The Batmobile lost its wheel
    and the Commisioner died that day.
    (Later on, I heard it “Robin flew away”, which I thought was stupid since Robin couldn’t fly)

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    • Fred says

      2016/12/13 at 6:12 am

      “Robin flew away” is there to be an amusing pun, because a robin is also a type of bird.

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  81. bobbob says

    2010/12/22 at 1:54 pm

    I’ve heard a few of these but not:

    Deck the halls with gasoline (falalalalalalalala)
    Light a match and run and scream(falalalalalalalala)
    Watch the school burn down in ashes(falalalalalalalala)
    Aren’t u glad I played with matches(falalalalalalalala)

    There’s another one:

    Dashing through the snow on a pair of broken skiis falling off the cliffs breaking botth my knees the snow is turning red I think I might be dead all I wasn’t for christmas is a hospital bed
    OH
    Jingle bells batman smells robin laid a gun
    Shot his but in pizza hut in 1981

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  82. Bobby Bob Bob says

    2010/12/22 at 5:43 pm

    I heard a very racists one when I was really young probably 7-8 and did not know what all the words meant at the time.

    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
    Grandpa’s got a gun,
    Pulled the trigger,
    Shot a n****r,
    Now he’s on the run
    HEY!

    I hope that my kids never learn this one before they know all the words. I got such a beating when I sang this one at home.

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  83. homero hernandez says

    2010/12/23 at 9:32 am

    when i was 8 i heard this jingle bells,shotgun shells,robin laid an egg,oh what fun it is to ride in santa’s underwear

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  84. Lila Anderson says

    2010/12/23 at 1:30 pm

    As a child in Louisville, KY, in the 1960s, I heard:

    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost its wheel
    and Penguin got away.

    It seems most folks have heard ‘the Joker got away’ and only one person’s husband from Texas had heard the Penguin version. I’d love to see a map showing the areas that learned ‘Penguin’ and the ones that learned ‘Joker’. Would be most interesting!

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  85. Adam says

    2010/12/24 at 2:07 pm

    I can’t believe that nobody posted the version I grew up with:

    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost its wheel
    And Batgirl lost her head.

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  86. anonymous says

    2010/12/25 at 3:13 am

    dashing through the snow, on a pair of brocken skiis. bumping into trees ,knocking out my teeth.
    i take 10 pills each day, and stiches in my brain. and now im lying in my bed with pinecones in my head. hey! jingle bells……

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  87. Tom says

    2010/12/25 at 7:52 am

    Okay… I went a’googling to find the lyics.

    I thought there must be only one, or at least an original version…
    After scanning through the lists I gave up trying to to find the one I learned as a child.

    I also now have a new perspective on the hassels various Prelates went through when codifying the final version(s) of the Psalms…

    Merry Christmas 2010!

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  88. unknown says

    2010/12/27 at 2:56 am

    just came up with a version last night. let me know what you think :)) :

    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
    Batman no more smells.
    Oh, how fun it is to drive
    My car into the lake!
    Hey!

    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
    Robin ate an egg,
    When you’re waiting on the tree
    With presents in your brains.
    Hey!

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  89. Katie Lorry says

    2010/12/29 at 10:55 pm

    Jingle bells batman smells Robin laid an egg Shot a tree
    Made him pee in 1983!

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  90. T Hunter says

    2011/01/02 at 2:58 am

    did anyone else notice the all the verses with “laid an egg” don’t rhyme ??? i remember hearing it in the 70’s here in Australia but it was one of the “robin flew away”versions… cant remember it all . my kids had not heard it 8 and 5 .

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  91. david atwood says

    2011/01/20 at 9:06 pm

    I heard version #1 in Toronto Canada when I was a kid about 1969

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  92. Anonymous says

    2011/01/24 at 8:06 am

    Dashing through the snow
    On a broken pair of skiis
    Over the hills we go
    Crashing into trees
    The snow is turning red
    I think Im almost dead
    Woke up in the hospital
    With stiches in my head!

    Jingle Bells Batman Smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The batmobile lost a wheel
    And Joker got away!
    Hey!

    Jingle Bells Batman Smells
    Robin had a gun
    Shot his butt to Pizza Hut
    In 1981!

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  93. Anonymous says

    2011/01/31 at 9:30 am

    Dashing through the snow,
    On a pair of broken skis.
    All the way we go,
    Crashing into trees.
    The snow is turning red,
    I think I’m almost dead,
    I wake up in the hospital with ski poles in my head.

    Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells,
    Santa Claus is dead.
    Rudolph took a .22 and shot him in the head.
    Oh, Barbie doll, Barbie doll,
    Tried to save his life
    But G.I. Joe from Mexico stabbed her with a knife.

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  94. TJ says

    2011/02/01 at 1:11 am

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    And the Joker got away

    All through Gotham City
    Racing day and night
    Where-ever there is Batman
    There’s sure to be a fight

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    • Cameron says

      2014/12/25 at 1:45 am

      Jingle bells batman smells robin laid an egg the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker turned out gay hey

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  95. Nick says

    2011/02/26 at 1:41 pm

    Mid to late 70’s in North Wales we’d sing:

    Jingle bells Batman smells
    Robin flew away
    Kojak lost his lollipop
    So he bought a milkyway

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  96. Anonymous says

    2011/04/09 at 8:00 pm

    The one I grew up with:

    Dashing through the snow,
    On a broken pair of skies.
    Over the hills we go,
    Crashing into trees!
    The snow s turning red,
    I think I’m almost dead,
    I almost lost my head!

    Oh! Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg.
    The MIB belongs to me,
    And Joker got away.. Hey!

    Oh! Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg.
    The batmobile lost a wheel,
    And Joker got away… Hey!

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  97. Anonymous says

    2011/04/09 at 8:01 pm

    From Maryland when I was 6 or 7

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  98. Captain Cowchucker says

    2011/04/15 at 2:09 am

    This is the version I heard growing up in Basingstoke, Hampshire in the UK in ’78/’79.

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
    Robin flew away
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    On the M1 motorway

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  99. courtney says

    2011/04/20 at 2:41 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
    Robin flew away.
    Uncle Billy lost his Willy,
    On the motorway, hey!

    This is the 90’s version in england >.<

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  100. nikke Knatterton says

    2011/05/19 at 7:32 pm

    jingle bells batman smells… is an old cartoon network jingle

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  101. Doc says

    2011/06/01 at 4:06 pm

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin flew away
    Uncle Billy lost his pants in the USA

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  102. Mia says

    2011/06/08 at 2:55 pm

    I learned the first version — verbatim — in 1997, at age 7. I had no idea these were this old!

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  103. Mia says

    2011/06/08 at 2:55 pm

    Sorry, I forgot — heard it first in Queens, New York.

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  104. Abdul P says

    2011/07/03 at 5:12 pm

    jingle bells, batman smells
    robin laid an egg
    uncle billy lost his Willy on the motorway
    hey

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  105. R.J. says

    2011/07/16 at 12:15 am

    The “Christmas with the Joker” episode of Batman: The Animated Series (originally aired November 13, 1992) opens with the Joker singing the first version of the song verbatim (without the Hey! at the end). It’s also the version that was around in the late ’80s / early ’90s when I was growing up in Northeast Ohio. But from reading all the replies, it seems it was the definitive version almost from the very beginning.

    I have a hard time believing this wasn’t in the original ’60s cartoon, or part of something supplementing it, or on a cereal box, or something! It’s always bothered me that it doesn’t really seem to go together very well at all. How did this catch on over other possible variants that were more, well, catchy? No one has reported hearing it before the cartoon was on. And how did so many people first hear it when the cartoon was new–shouldn’t it have taken some time to spread? I hoped to find an answer to the origin after seeing this episode, but now all I have is more questions…

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  106. Anonymous says

    2011/07/21 at 10:29 am

    The one I know is:

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin flew away
    Uncle Billy lost his willy
    In front of all the town
    Hey Hey

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  107. Oscar Martinez says

    2011/07/28 at 12:21 pm

    One of the very first time I heard the song, was in that simpsons episode, one of my favorites, when Bart set up a casino in his treehouse and get Robert Goulet and then after the song he hits Milhouse with the microphone so hard…hahahahahaha…

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  108. Teeba says

    2011/07/28 at 8:02 pm

    Australia, 1993.

    “Jingle bells, batman smells,
    Robin layed an egg,
    The Batmobile lost a wheel,
    Driving to LA, HEY!”

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  109. Nige says

    2011/08/22 at 9:51 am

    I invented this one in 1977 in Leamington Spa, England-
    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin ran away.
    Catwoman stinks and Jez always winks
    at people who are gay.
    Jez was a friend of ours.
    I’m now 50 and no longer make homophobic songs up.

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  110. kee Bird says

    2011/09/05 at 1:54 am

    JINGLEBELLS,SANTA SWELL,EASTERS ON THE WAY,OH WHAT FUN IT IS TO RIDE IN A BEAT-UP CHEVELET

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  111. call me bannana says

    2011/10/16 at 9:08 pm

    jingle bells jingle bells
    grandma lost her head.
    my aunt is sick
    my nice is slick
    and i am in bed.

    all on Christmas day.
    HEY!

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  112. Jeff says

    2011/10/21 at 9:46 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away……….First heard this in 4th grade (1976) Chicago…..Man does this bring back memories!!!! We used to sing this all the time on the bus while going home near Christmastime……sweet sweet memories!!

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  113. Christy Andersen says

    2011/11/04 at 5:21 pm

    In North East England in the 1980s the lyrics we used were:

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells,
    Robin flew away
    Lost his pants in the middle of France
    And found them in Bombay – hey!

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  114. ewwie says

    2011/11/13 at 11:19 am

    so what im not 40 but here’s the one we sing at school:
    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells,
    Robin flew away,
    Uncle Billy lost his willy
    on the motorway – HEY!

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  115. Mandy says

    2011/11/18 at 7:08 pm

    hey, i read your post or whatever they call it here and figured i’d let you know where i heard it. i’m not sure if this is the first time the “batman smells” song was ever sung, but i heard it sung by the joker in a batman christmas special from the batman animated series. (the old one, not the new batman superman aventures) the episode is called christmas with the joker. it was made around 1992. i’m only a teen so i’m not sure what came first (the chicken or the egg lol). i was just *interested* (*obsessed) in batman so i bought the series. i hope this helps!

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  116. Atata says

    2011/11/19 at 2:07 pm

    Jingle Bells,
    Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg,
    Batmobile lost its’ wheel
    and joker got away
    hey!

    *repeat*

    Batman’s in the kitchen,
    robin’s in the hall,
    joker’s in the bathroom,
    peeing on the wall
    hahaha!

    Batman’s going swimming
    Robins in a dance
    Joker’s sitting in the sun
    peeing in his pants!

    *chorus*

    atleast from what I remember joker had urinary problems XD possibly a prostate exam was due >l

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  117. Anastasia says

    2011/11/22 at 1:18 pm

    I first heard it in the Batman: The Animated Series episode (the old series). I can’t remember which one it was, but it was a Christmas one on rerun on some random channel. The Joker sang it and then flew away on a Christmas tree (it sounds weird written down) I heard it on a Simpsons episode as well. “Simpsons roasting on an open fire”.

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  118. Anonymous says

    2011/11/25 at 8:55 pm

    Jingle bells,
    Mortar shells,
    VC in the grass
    Take your merry Christmas and shove it up your ass!

    (Sung by soldiers in Viet Nam, where it was 100 F, sunny and very humid at Christmas time. VC = Viet Cong.)

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  119. Revah says

    2011/11/26 at 7:06 am

    Here’s a version from London, England in the early 90’s:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile ran out of fuel,
    And the Joker got away,
    HEY!

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
    Robin flew away.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel,
    On the M6 motorway!

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  120. renee says

    2011/11/28 at 4:59 am

    I heard the following parody in high school circa 1989, Las Vegas NV from my best friend…..

    Jingle Bells, Santa Smellls
    Reindeer in the grass.
    Take your merry Christmas tree and shove it up
    your ass.

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  121. Alisha says

    2011/11/30 at 3:52 pm

    Jingle bells,
    Batman smells,
    Robin flew away,
    Santa Clause,
    lost his balls,
    on the m6 motorway
    (Hey!)

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  122. Kat says

    2011/12/01 at 11:38 am

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away, uncle Billy has lost his willy. Martin and Luke are gay!

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  123. Athena says

    2011/12/02 at 8:02 pm

    Here’s a good one:

    Jingle bells batman smells

    robin layed a gun shot a tree

    mayed it pee in 1981.

    or

    jingle bells shotgun shells,
    robin layed a gun shot a tree
    mayed it pee in 1981.
    santa claus santa claus
    fell of the slay.
    Barbie doll barbie doll
    tried to save his life.
    but robin sat on her.

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  124. Athena says

    2011/12/02 at 8:04 pm

    Sorry I forgot to say hey
    in my songs oh well.

    (ti pickle)

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  125. Peter Faversham-Barre says

    2011/12/03 at 2:18 pm

    Jingle Bells,
    Batman smells,
    Robin flew away.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel*
    On the motorway. England 1960’s

    * Uncle Billy lost his willy – England 1990’s

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  126. Charles H. Westgate III says

    2011/12/03 at 4:56 pm

    Jingle Bells, Piglet Smell,
    Pooh Bear lay some eggs.
    Hundred Aced Woods has smell Pooh’s gas,
    And fell down in the ground Hey,
    Jingle Bells, Piglet Smell,
    Pooh Bear lay some eggs,
    Oh my lord! Pooh’s butt is rip,
    And fart at Gargamel, Hey!
    Captain Sabertooth was shipwreck at Dog City,
    What kind of storm it was,
    It’s Winnie the Pooh pas gas!!!
    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
    Snag by Don KArnage and his crew of air pirates, from Tale Spin,
    Escaped from Disney to Jim Henson’s Dog City!

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  127. brynster says

    2011/12/06 at 2:24 pm

    Growing up on the South Coast of England in the Early 80’s, i always remember it being:
    Jingle Bells
    Batman Smells
    Robin Flew Away
    The Batmobile
    Has Lost It’s Wheel
    On The M1 Motorway.

    I have heard other versions though. ‘Robin Flew Away’ rhymes much better than ‘Robin Laid An Egg’. Someone in another post mentioned that Robin Couldn’t fly so he was unsure why kids sang it. TBH i think it less likely that Robin could lay an egg but that’s just me!
    Seriously though, i always understood it that it was a play on words, Robin the DC Character cannot fly, but the more famously known Robin (the actual Bird) can.

    With regards to ‘My Uncle Billy’s Lost His Willy On The Motorway’, that is a variation taken from mixing the ‘Jingle Bells Batman Smells’ Rhyme, and the Rhyme:
    My mate Billy has a 10 foot willy,
    He showed it to the girl next door,
    She thought it was a snake,
    And cut it with a rake,
    And now it’s only 4 foot 4 (4’4″)

    Oh the inventiveness of kids rhyming the words Billy and Willy!

    I doubt i’ll be teaching the latter rhyme to my 5yr old, i’ll let the kids at his school teach him if they havn’t come up with ruder ones by now.

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  128. lydia says

    2011/12/08 at 10:06 am

    This is one for I’m a Celebrity get me Out of here 2011:
    Jingle bells, Fatima smells, Willie ruled the camp. Marks ok and Antonys gay. Dougie all the way, HEY!

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  129. daveM says

    2011/12/10 at 7:09 pm

    ok, heres the jingle bells song i heard in grade school almost 45 years ago.

    Riding through metropolis, in the batmobile today, in pursuit of the joker, nothings going their way, as our heroes get close, the joker flips them the bird, the batmobile spins out of control and wipes out by the curb OHH, jingle bells batman smells, robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and the joker got away, ehh, jingle bells batman smells robin got out the jack, he placed it under the batmobile, but it slipped and crushed his back. Now the batmans sad ,cause robin’s laid to rest, the joker finnaly got revenge for gothom city’s best!

    THAT IS THE WHOLE SONG!

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  130. daveM says

    2011/12/10 at 10:07 pm

    king and queen
    shit a bean
    bent over and
    painted it green!

    or

    holy moses king of the jews
    made his wife a pair of shoes
    when the shoes began to wear
    holy moses started to swear.

    and the lords prayer one, my dad told me this one, it was the whole thing about 8 verses its driving me nuts trying to remember it, so i just remember some parts of it, this is something he heard of back in the 1920’s so its old, masybe your grand father heard of it

    our father who art in vain,
    drove cattle across the plain,
    then came moses in a ray of sun,
    banging out thunder on a big bass drum

    thats all i remember

    dave

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  131. Cajundweeb says

    2011/12/11 at 1:32 pm

    There’s a scene in “The Simpsons Christmas Special” where Bart’s in the 4th grade class singing the alternative lyrics, and just as he sings “the Joker’s got away”, he gets yanked out by one of the teachers. Talk about comedic genius.

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  132. Andy and Beau says

    2011/12/12 at 2:39 pm

    By my beautiful step daughter

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
    Robin is a Gay
    He ran away
    with a willy, on the motorway

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  133. Rachel says

    2011/12/13 at 4:00 pm

    I always knew one when i was younger:
    Jingle bells, jingle bells
    Robin laid an egg
    uncle billy lost his willy
    on the motorway, HEY!

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  134. Anonymous says

    2011/12/14 at 8:32 pm

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The Batmobile lost its wheel
    And Santa lost a leg

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  135. Rodney says

    2011/12/14 at 10:44 pm

    Heard this one in the 80’s in Los Angeles: jingle bells shotgun shells Tom Bradley’s our Mayor Shuck and Jive give me Five burn a little hair (Michael Jackson)

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  136. Amazed says

    2011/12/14 at 10:48 pm

    Amazing how many people missed the part of this post where it asks you to say WHERE and WHAT YEAR you learned your Jingle Bells parody. :-P

    I learned the “Jingle Bells/Batman smells/Robin laid an egg/Batmobile broke its wheel/And Joker got away” version in elementary school in Las Vegas, Nevada in the mid-1980s (I was born in 1980).

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  137. Griffihn says

    2011/12/15 at 4:05 pm

    the actual “jingle bells, batman smells” is from the 80’s or 90’s batman animated series (sorry, it’s been well over a decade since i’ve last heard it). it went something like this:

    “jingle bells, batman smells
    and robin’s laid an egg
    the batmobile lost a wheel
    and the joker got away! HEY!

    dashing through the roof,
    in a one horse open tree,
    busting out i go,
    laughing al the WEEEEE!!!”

    i think it was a Christmas special or something like that, don’t remember exactly. yet even here, in the eastern europe, there isn’t a kid above the age of 7 that doesn’t know these lyrics.

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    • Dave says

      2014/09/05 at 11:56 pm

      The batman smells version existed waaay before the 80’s or 90’s cartoon as the comments here show.

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  138. tommyfun says

    2011/12/15 at 6:28 pm

    911 911 Santa clause is dead, Rudolph found a 44. and shot him in the head BANG
    barbie doll barbie doll tried to save his life but G. I. Joe from mexico stabbed her in the head OW!

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  139. Anonymous says

    2011/12/16 at 2:34 pm

    It was probably around 1990 or 1991 and I first heard the Batman smells version sung by Bart Simpson while he was in his Christmas play!

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  140. ghostofxmaspast says

    2011/12/17 at 11:50 am

    i made up a version about the christmas carol, it goes:

    “jingle bells jingle bells
    tiny tim is dead
    scrooge got a butchers knife and stabbed him in his bed oh
    cratchit was upset so he got a gun
    he shot a bullet in his rear and the gun up scrooges bum”

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  141. ghostofxmaspast says

    2011/12/17 at 12:56 pm

    jingle bells shotgun shells
    rudolphs nose is broke
    blitzen smashed it with some wine
    and santa makes him choke

    oh dashing through the snow
    in a sliegh with no’ light
    since rudolphs nose is broke
    they are left without any sight

    so,
    jingle bells shotgun shells
    all the deer are dead
    so mrs clause no spends all her time in bed

    thats what i made up :)

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  142. ghostofxmaspast says

    2011/12/18 at 4:14 am

    jingle bells shotgun shells
    rudolphs nose is broke
    blizen broke in with some glass
    and now blitzen might choke
    *chorus*
    dashing through the snow
    on a sliegh without no light
    santa ran away
    as he was with a fright
    he didnt see a tree bumping into me
    now i woke up under wood in the middle of the night
    *end of chorus*

    jingle bells shotgun shells
    santa ran away
    now i woke in hospital with
    my my tonsils in a tray

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  143. I like Christmas says

    2011/12/18 at 3:28 pm

    Here’s a clip from batman,

    pretty self-explanatory.

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    • SunnyD says

      2012/12/05 at 2:30 pm

      That song was already well known by the animators of this show. I heard in elementary school in San Diego California in the mid 1960’s when the Batman TV show was the only thing any kids talked about in school. We sang this over and over and everyone tried to change it, but we always settled on the basic ending the Joker got away – hey!

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  144. No so self-explanatory says

    2011/12/20 at 4:16 pm

    “I Like Christmas” — that clip is from 1992, people have been singing this since the late 60s at least.

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  145. SirOtter says

    2011/12/21 at 12:30 pm

    I’m almost positive I heard the Batman Smells version by the first Christmas after the TV show premiered in January, 1966. This was in Nashville, TN, and I was in fifth grade that Christmas.

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  146. Robert says

    2011/12/21 at 4:22 pm

    Your first version. Austin, TX. Late 60’s. I am surprised that this was national. I thought that it was just something we made up as a kid. I don’t know why I decided to look up something so silly 40 years later.

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  147. Not needed says

    2011/12/21 at 7:12 pm

    Does anyone recognize this!!!

    Jingle Bells
    Twilight Smells
    Edward ran away!!
    Bella Dies, Jacob Cries,
    Harry potter all the way!!!!!!! (Hey!)

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  148. Rel says

    2011/12/22 at 5:25 am

    I heard this song when I was a kid growing up in australia, I would’ve been about 6 years old and Batman was on TV. The song went like this:
    Jingle Bells Batman smells
    Robyn fleww away
    The bat mobile lost its wheel
    So they all flew TAA Trans Australia Airlines)

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  149. Anonymous says

    2011/12/22 at 7:59 am

    the version I learned was:
    jingle bells, batman smells
    robin laid an egg
    batmobile lost its wheel
    and joker broke his leg

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  150. From Australia says

    2011/12/22 at 6:43 pm

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin flew away
    Wonder Woman lost her bussoms
    Flying TAA

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  151. Karin says

    2011/12/23 at 10:37 am

    I heard the first one in the early 80’s. My daughter, who is now 10, has some really long gory version going around her school (there’s several verses all ending up in the hospital and Santa Claus is dead)

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  152. gujo says

    2011/12/23 at 5:00 pm

    Jingle Bells
    Arsenal smells!
    City go away!
    Liverpool suck!
    Chelsea yuck!
    United all the way ♥

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  153. Rachkath says

    2011/12/23 at 10:04 pm

    I wasn’t 40 when you posted this but I *cough*am*cough* now… LOL! I was looking up the lyrics and found your post. I first heard the first version around the mid/late 70s (~75-77), in Los Angeles, CA.

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  154. Vanessa and Elizabeth says

    2011/12/24 at 4:19 am

    jingle bells, batman smells, roben laid an egg! wonder woman did a fart and blew of santas head yay!…..

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  155. Jerric says

    2011/12/24 at 7:16 am

    Angry Birds version

    Jingle bells, piggies smell, the White Bird laid an egg…

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  156. Dirk says

    2011/12/24 at 12:31 pm

    I first heard some kids singing the “Jingle bells batman smells …” version in 1993 in Tucson. When I was a kid back in the late 50’s early 60’s we pretty much stuck to the regular lyrics except for “oh what fun it is to ride in grandma’s chevrolet” although when ever my sister and I sang the song together we had to race to see who could sing the song the fastest regardless of who was singing with us or where we were singing.

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  157. i luv christmas says

    2011/12/24 at 4:34 pm

    dashing throw the snow
    riding piggy-back on flash

    o’er fantastic four
    we left flames on his ash

    they got super mad
    and tried to beat us up

    wolveren made a scene
    and really cut us up

    jingle bells batman smells
    robin layed an egg
    the batmobele lost a wheel
    the joker got away
    (x2)

    last summer i went to the south
    to viset the north pole
    spiderman was there and
    played santa’s role

    he wraped the toys in web
    and shiped them all in bulk
    to all the heros except incredebul hulk

    jingle bells batman smells
    robin layed an egg
    the batmobele lost a wheel
    the joker got away
    (x2)

    a year or two ago
    i thought id take a bride

    soon miss wonder woman
    lassoed me bye her side
    i thought it was true love
    but she had another plan

    i saw her under the misletoe
    and kissing superman

    jingle bells batman smells
    robin layed an egg
    the batmobele lost a wheel
    the joker got away
    (x2)

    p.s sorry if any spelling mistake

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  158. Cloudane says

    2011/12/24 at 6:22 pm

    North West England:

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
    Robin flew away
    The Batmobile lost its wheels
    On the M6 Motorway

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  159. Ken says

    2011/12/24 at 8:39 pm

    I’ve always heard it as:

    Jingle Bells
    Shotgun Shells
    Shootin’ all the way

    Oh what fun it is to ride
    In a Brand New Chevrolet!

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  160. DanielJBarragan says

    2012/01/11 at 7:19 pm

    Robin in the kitchen,
    Batman in the hall,
    Joker in the bathroom,
    Peeing on the wall..
    :} mwahaha

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  161. anomynous says

    2012/01/20 at 2:00 pm

    i heard this one when i was young, back in the day…..
    jingle bells, batman smells,
    robin flew away,
    lost his pants in the middle of France,
    and found them in Pompeii.

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  162. anomynous says

    2012/02/06 at 9:21 am

    In the south of England in the early 80s I sang this version:

    Jingle Bells,
    Batman smells,
    Robin flew away.
    Batmobile,
    Lost a wheel,
    On the motorway- hey!

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  163. Sarah says

    2012/02/24 at 7:08 pm

    The version I remember hearing was almost exactly like the last one on the post:

    “Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost its wheel
    And Joker took ballet, hey!”

    And the version you learned came from an actual Batman episode, so I think your version wins :).

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  164. grace says

    2012/03/31 at 1:43 am

    here is one

    jingle bells batman smells
    robin got a gun
    he shot a tree
    and made it pee in 1981

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  165. Jose says

    2012/04/03 at 4:53 pm

    Dumb, but I recall Junie B. Jones Book called ” Jingle Bells Batman smells P.S so does May!!!!!! ” verry merry funny!!! Sincerily, Juan Jose Martinez

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  166. Batman Lover! says

    2012/04/08 at 7:19 pm

    Hey! I think i heard this in a Batman the animated series christmas episode! Joker sang it then flew away on the Arkam Asylam christmas tree! The christmas tree was actually a rocket though. OK this sounds weird written down.

    Here i have that part on youtube… Please watch it! then you will understand what the heck i am talking about!

    http://www.superheroeslives.com/indexbatman.htm

    P.s. I’m 13 right now and live in Austin, Texas i remember the lyrics being…

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The batmobile lost a wheel
    and the joker got away!

    i also remember…

    Jinglebells, Batman smells
    robin flew away
    the invisible boatmobile (from spongebob) lost a wheel
    and manray got away! (again from spongebob)

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  167. mark says

    2012/05/01 at 6:56 pm

    been wondering this for years , who the heck came up with this ? who sang it first ? questions I ask every xmas . the version I heard was , jingle bells , batman smells , robin laid an egg , bat mobile lost its wheel and robin flew away , or the joker got away , first heard it when I was around 5 years old , which would be in 1974 . I wanna know the answer , please e-mail if you find out where this originated .

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  168. Sarah says

    2012/06/02 at 10:56 am

    Probably first heard the jingle bells Batman parody as a 6 year old girl when I was living just outside London in Croydon. (UK). So would have been 1994 and the version I grew up with was:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
    Robin flew away,
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    on the M4 motorway – hey!

    I’ve never heard any of the shotgun ones. Maybe that’s because I’m in the UK!

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  169. anon12 says

    2012/06/10 at 10:38 am

    jingle bells
    batman smells
    robin made a slave
    the batmobile,
    ran over a seal
    and the joker lost his head
    ay

    first heard today by me

    jingle bells, batman smells
    robiun laid an egg,the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker turned out gay
    first heard st.marys p.s n.i

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  170. George says

    2012/06/14 at 12:54 pm

    Growing up in Georgia, born ’97.

    I heard
    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The batmobile has lost a wheel
    And Joker got away, hey!

    And
    Batman’s in the kitchen
    Robin’s in the hall
    Joker’s in the bathroom peeing on the wall

    And
    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The Batmobile has lost a wheel
    And Joker thinks he’s gay, hey’

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  171. Dave says

    2012/06/23 at 10:44 pm

    What I learned in Bethesda, md in early 1970’s was;

    Jingle bells
    batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The batmobile lost a wheel
    And the joker got away

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  172. Nikki says

    2012/07/02 at 1:05 am

    it started with one of the original animated animated batman videos called Christmas with the Joker where the joker sings it

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  173. Plum says

    2012/07/17 at 1:04 pm

    Mine is a very recent contribution, as I heard it in 2000-2001, but here goes…

    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg.
    The batmobile lost a wheel (or Mr. Freeze cut the cheese)
    And the Joker got away!

    Batman’s in the kitchen,
    Robin’s in the hall,
    Joker’s in the bathroom,
    Peeing on the wall!
    (Hahaha!)

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  174. Plum says

    2012/07/17 at 1:06 pm

    Oh, I’m sorry! That was in California. :)

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  175. Andie says

    2012/07/29 at 8:56 am

    Or this one. I made this one up. No lie.

    Jingle Bells,
    Batman smells,
    Loki flew away,
    Hulk sucks,
    Hitler yuck,
    Thor all the way,
    HAY!

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  176. Anon13 says

    2012/07/31 at 4:44 pm

    this is one I heard somewhere:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin flew away
    Uncle Billy lost his willy
    On the motorway

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  177. Jesus says

    2012/08/03 at 2:54 am

    The earliest I’ve seen the batman version is on Mystery Science Theater 3000

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  178. Dondakay1975@gmail.com says

    2012/08/24 at 3:56 am

    I can tell you what my kids sing now:
    Jingle bells!
    Batman smells!
    Robin laid an egg!
    He stuck his butt in Pizza Hut,
    And blew them all away! Hey!

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  179. Graham n says

    2012/08/24 at 12:05 pm

    i heard this version growing up in the 1990s in sunderland, england:
    jingle bells
    batman smell
    robin laid an egg
    he lost his pants in the middle of france
    and found them in bombay!!! hey!!

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  180. ChuckLunch says

    2012/09/04 at 1:42 pm

    First one I heard back in 1977.

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
    Robin Laid An Egg.
    Commissioner Died of Suicide
    And Joker Got Away………

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  181. ChuckLunch says

    2012/09/04 at 1:49 pm

    Here’s another one, keeping with the spirit of the subversion of Christmas

    We Three Kings Of Orient Are (?)
    Tried to Smoke a Rubber Cigar.
    It was loaded and Exploded….BANG!!

    Silent Night, Holy Night

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  182. Jeff says

    2012/09/10 at 5:56 pm

    O.k., kids, it was 1966-67 , growing up on post at Fort Knox, KY, when I heard the full rendition with Robin in the hall and the chorus where the joker got away in part to the bat mobile’s lost wheel. But the only part my 2nd grade brain remembered was the chorus because the intro was too long winded. Besides the chorus was the funniest part to sing to our parents.

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  183. Anonymous says

    2012/09/25 at 2:43 am

    The Batman smells version was what we learned in Maine during the 1970’s, and Maine was pretty backwoods during this time. My friends uncle was Adam West, who played batman in the TV show. I always assumed in came from highschoolers at this time, because of the reruns of the TV show, but many people remember it earlier. We didn’t have the other verses or the ones about Santa in my school. Hey! Robin laid an egg. Where the hell did that come from?
    It is also interesting to note that before the internet, things like this and urban legends spread rather well through the school systems. You couldn’t research then like you can now – there is something freeing about that, something special. Interesting that this x gen is the generation that was without and then the start of internet, the start of home comBooters.

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  184. Eloise says

    2012/10/18 at 4:39 pm

    We used to sing in the 80’s/90’s in Durham
    Uk:
    Jingle bells batman smells
    Robin flew away
    List his pants in the middle of France
    And found them
    In Bombay!

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  185. Josh Frost says

    2012/10/19 at 1:08 pm

    I too remember this jingle vivdly, growing up in Boston in the 1970s. As a Batman fan, my friends and I used to debate whether or not we should sing this song, which obviously was not very kind to Batman! In the end, we couldn’t help ourselves – it was irresistable. Do wonder where it started…

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  186. Magic says

    2012/11/02 at 8:11 pm

    “Crashing through the snow on a pair of broken skis, jumping over rocks crashing into trees, my world is turning red I think I am dead. I woke up and this is what I said, “Jingle Bells batman smells robin laid a gun, he shot in a pizza hut in 1981!”

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  187. Michelle says

    2012/11/03 at 12:30 am

    The beginning is not mine but the rest is…
    Jingle bells Batman smells,Robin lays an egg, joker stole the bat mobile and penguin ran away.
    Cat-woman doesn`t do baths, the riddler got gas.Two face always wears a mask.Gotham never sleeps,Ivy never eats and Mr. freeze heats.Jingle bells, jingle bells scarecrow lives in hell, Bane always fails, Harley takes some pills and batwomen always kills. Alfred`s in jail, Clay-face melts in pail and Killer Croc chases his tail. So Jingle belle, Hush always yells, Professor Strange is blackmailed, Man-bat kills Grundy and Mad hatter is madder—–For he takes a bomb—sets his alarm–to blow them all away. This is the part where everyone starts, to not notice— to save the day.

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  188. John says

    2012/11/20 at 9:45 pm

    The parody actually first appeared in the 1990 episode of Batman: The Animated Series entitled “Christmas with the Joker”

    The lyrics are as follows:

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    And the Joker got away!

    (The Joker laughs maniacally, escaping Arkham Asylum via a rocket disguised as a Christmas tree)

    Crashing through the roof
    In a one horse open tree
    Busting out I go
    Laughing all the way!

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  189. DiggsMcGee says

    2012/11/27 at 1:28 am

    I swear to high heaven that I came up with this variation in the early to mid 90’s (Illinois, USA):

    Jingle bells, taco shells
    Granny had a gun
    Shot me in the underwear
    And, boy, I had to run

    When I was young I didn’t, and still don’t, enjoy being like everyone else. So while the “batman smells” version was popular with us kids, I experimented with other rhymes. There was a “jingle bells, taco bell…” version someone spouted out one day. That’s when I “created” my version. Even back then some friend of my brother’s didn’t believe me when I said I made it up, because he had heard it from somewhere else. Whether or not I am responsible for the existence of this version of the song is up for debate. But I did come up with it myself, without influence.

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  190. Anonymous says

    2012/11/29 at 2:42 am

    Jingle Bells
    Batman Smells
    Robin ran away
    Father Christmas
    Burned his whiskers
    Smoking weed in May
    Hey!

    Jingle Bells
    Batman smells
    Robin layed an egg
    Santa’s drinking Fanta
    Eat fruit cake with no nutmeg

    Crashing through the snow
    On a pair of broken skis
    Over the hills we go
    Crashing into trees
    (Ow! Ow! Ow!)
    The snow is turning red
    I think I’m nearly dead
    I’m gonna spend the rest of Christmas
    In a hospital bed!

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  191. Mike says

    2012/11/30 at 11:02 pm

    The one I heard in Ohio in 1978 was this:

    Jingle Bells
    Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The Penguin fell
    And broke his tail
    And the Joker got away
    Hey!

    (there may have been more to it, but this was all I could remember at the time)

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  192. me says

    2012/12/01 at 6:51 pm

    i herd some children sing the same words over and over again. unfortunetly when i started to pay attention they stopped so can only come up with the first bit. any one know why they would not compete this

    jingle bells, batman smells
    robin is [so?] gay
    oh what fun it ………..[this is where they stopped]

    i know they mentioned the sleigh

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  193. Chris says

    2012/12/02 at 2:53 pm

    Heard this from my dad

    Jingle bells, Hitler smells
    Pee pee in the air
    Oh what fun it is to ride
    In hitlers underwear

    Baldwin, NY 1960s

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  194. BW says

    2012/12/03 at 8:09 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!)

    1977 (4th grade), Sterling Heights, MI.

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  195. C.J. says

    2012/12/05 at 12:54 pm

    One my dad passed on to us (Circa California in the 60’s)

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Easter’s in its way
    Oh what fun it is to ride
    in Grandma’s Chevrolet

    The one I heard as a kid in the 90’s was

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The batmobile lost a wheel
    And Joker played ballet. Hey!

    Some of these are rude, disturbing, and downright gruesome! of course rude songs that kids sings have been around since the beginning of time. Another unrelated song my mom sang was this:

    Mine eyes have seen the glory
    of the burning of the school
    We have tortured every teacher
    We have broken all the rules
    We have shot the secratary and we hung the principal
    As brats go marching in

    Glory, glory how peculiar
    Teacher hit me with a ruler
    Bopped her on the bean with a rotten tangerine
    And boy did she turn green

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  196. SunnyD says

    2012/12/05 at 3:15 pm

    My feeling about how this song spread around the world is the children of US military familes. I first heard it back in Christmas of 1966 when the Batman TV series started in September of 1966. That was the only thing elementary school kids talked about and the toys were all we wanted for Christmas. I lived in San Diego California and our school was half military kids. Our city was a big military hub at the height of the Vietnam War. Every branch of the services was active there. I remember we sang the original chorus over and over. Kids tried to add versions, but the original ending was always the Joker got away – Hey!. My assumption was that as military kids were suddenly moved around the country they would arrive in a new school and that silly song was a familiar memory of their former friends. Once it was heard by the new group they would be “Kool” and other kids would copy their new song. I think the original chorus was tried and true and whatever you learn first is your memory of the right way. When another comes along it is quickly rejected. It takes a kid to move with a different version for that one to be known as the original. That is my guess how it migrated around the world and did not change very much. I went to research this song version after walking kids to school and hearing a 7 year old claim it was new. I am 54 and I remember it felt new when I was 7. The version we were singing was “Jingle Bells, Santa smells, Rudolph lost his way. Blah blah blah in a one horse Chevrolet. hey! This version was popular in school, because the 1960’s commerical hit song was “See the USA in your Chevrolet” played on every TV channel during kids shows. Christmas of 1966 is when I first heard it switch to Batman Smells, Robin layed an egg and the Batmobile logically replaced the sleigh and our Chevrolet. Please post a reply if you heard this version before Christmas 1966 and where you were.

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  197. Robert says

    2012/12/07 at 12:55 pm

    1976 Minnesota. The standard version, ending with “Joker got away, hey” not “took ballet”. Hope this helps!

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  198. Elena C says

    2012/12/07 at 3:50 pm

    “Jingle bells, shotgun shells, bb’s in the air, oh what fun it is to shoot santa’s reindeer! Deer guts in the trees, bloodstains in the snow…” and i don’t quite remember the rest. Florida, late 80’s.

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  199. kristie says

    2012/12/10 at 2:48 am

    Jingle bells, batman smells
    robin flew away
    lost his pants in the middle of france
    and found them in bombay HAY

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  200. jake says

    2012/12/10 at 9:55 am

    aunty ruby lost her booby on the motarway hey

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  201. Darren says

    2012/12/11 at 3:35 am

    I’m 30 and from Bristol, England. I remember a version of this song from my childhood. It went as follows:

    Jingle bells, batman smells,
    Robin flew away.
    Uncle Billy lost his willy
    on the M4 motorway.

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  202. Brian H says

    2012/12/12 at 1:09 pm

    I used to say the rhyme when I was a kid in the 1970s, in the suburbs of NY City. Our version was the “Batman smells, Robin laid an egg” variation. Here it is in the Batman television cartoon:

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  203. GingerKarma says

    2012/12/13 at 10:19 pm

    In Australia, in the early ’70s, we sang this version at primary school:

    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin flew away.
    Father Christmas burnt his whiskers,
    smoking “Craven ‘A'”.

    There was also a version:

    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    which hit the Joker’s head.

    although that last line was sometimes “and ran into a shed”.

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  204. Smity says

    2012/12/14 at 11:45 am

    Jingle bells, jingle bells
    Dummies all the way
    Oh what fun it is to ride
    In Grandma’s Chevrolet, HEY!!

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  205. not telling says

    2012/12/14 at 11:57 pm

    Jingle Bells Shotgun Shells
    Granny had a gun
    shot a rabbit up the ass
    and boy did it run

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  206. Jordan Elliott Kamnitzer says

    2012/12/15 at 5:01 pm

    Following those crazy lines, after “Joker got away”, it ends with the words: “And that’s the end of the day.”

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  207. Jim says

    2012/12/16 at 9:40 am

    First time I hear the last verse “Joker ran away”!
    Our last verse in Montreal 30 years ago was always “Commisioner had to pay,hey”

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  208. J.R. says

    2012/12/16 at 10:04 pm

    Jingle bells Batman smells
    Robin laid and egg
    The Batmobile lost its wheel
    and Joker got away
    Denver 1985

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  209. Noname says

    2012/12/18 at 2:07 pm

    New version jingle bells batman smells robin flew away batmans in a football field and scored a penalty dashing thru the snow on a pair of broken skies over the fields we go bashing into trees hahaha the snow is turning red I think I might be dead now I’m in hospital with stitches in my head oh jingle bells batman smells robin flew away yeah

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  210. Shane says

    2012/12/19 at 5:07 am

    Your version, New Zealand, late 70s would be my guess.

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  211. Rich says

    2012/12/19 at 8:31 pm

    Jingle bells Batman smells
    Robin laid and egg
    The Batmobile lost its wheel
    and Joker got away
    Idaho 1979 (was 5, definitely remember singing it at my first home before I moved when I was 6)

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  212. Ian says

    2012/12/20 at 6:26 am

    Jingle Bells Batman Smells
    Robin Flew Away
    He lost his pants in the middle of France
    and found them in Bombay HEY!

    Jingle Bells Batman Smells
    Robin Flew Away
    Wonder Woman lost her knickers
    all on Christmas Day HEY!

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  213. john says

    2012/12/20 at 3:44 pm

    the version i heard in mississippi in the 1950’s was
    jingle bells, shotgun shells
    rabbits all the way
    applesauce and sauerkraut
    and good old pork and beans

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  214. bethany says

    2012/12/21 at 5:04 am

    song is boss

    jingle bells
    batman smells
    robbin flew away
    the bat mobile
    lost the weal
    and he whas sad all day

    that how i say it

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  215. anon says

    2012/12/21 at 10:35 pm

    Honestly, I would look into what GROUP started this. The trend (since this started) has been a steady decline towards making heroes uncool.

    I submit to you that this was part of an opening salvo against “hero minded” types trying to save the world.

    As conspiratorial as it sounds, a lot of very similar things happened at the same time and it all centered around music in our culture, possibly as a response to the powerful influence music had on organizing hippy culture…

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  216. Tim J. Swank says

    2012/12/22 at 5:07 pm

    I remember THIS ONE:

    Jingle bells
    Santa smells
    Easter’s on its way
    O what fun is to ride in a rusted Chevrolet

    =8*p

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    • Rafe says

      2017/06/11 at 1:30 pm

      Definitely “beat-up Cheverolet” in Hollwood CA ca. 1960.

      No rusty cars in our dry, warm, and sunny climate, unless you lived by the beach.

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  217. Pete says

    2012/12/23 at 5:12 am

    The version I grew up with in Australia in the 80’s

    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin flew away.
    Lost his pants while over France,
    and found them in Bombay.
    Hey.

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  218. olivia says

    2012/12/24 at 9:07 am

    jingle bells jingle bells robin flew a way uncle billy lost his willy on the motor way hey

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  219. Laura says

    2012/12/24 at 12:59 pm

    The version I’ve always said is:

    Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin flew away,
    He landed on a football pitch and didn’t know how to play

    I would have heard this in Cambridgeshire/ Suffolk UK in the mid 90’s (I’m now 25)

    My fiancé from Yorkshire has never heard this version so it might just be an east Anglian version?

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  220. Memama says

    2012/12/24 at 1:42 pm

    Jingle bells, batman smells
    robin laid an egg
    the batmobile lost its wheel
    and joker got away.
    First heard, Atlanta 1970 give or take a year.

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  221. Brian Badenoch says

    2012/12/25 at 12:02 pm

    Rochester, New York, mid 1970’s, versions 1 & 2. (Also, San José, CA, 2012)

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  222. jenny says

    2012/12/25 at 2:50 pm

    jingle bells
    batman smells
    robin laid an egg
    the batmobile lost a wheel
    an the joker joined ballet!
    HEY!!!

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  223. liam mcc says

    2012/12/30 at 9:52 pm

    ive heard of this one.
    jingle bells
    batman smells
    robin laid a gun
    shot a tree and made a pee
    in 1941!

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  224. Todd Pence says

    2013/01/01 at 12:57 am

    My theory is that the Batman version of the “Jingle Bells” lyrics originated sometime in the late 1960’s during the run of the popular TV show of the time. Some creative kid came up with the lyrics and they went viral across the nation.

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  225. Crashing through the trees says

    2013/01/01 at 3:17 pm

    this is the Version i know of itsong

    Crashing through the trees on a broken pair of skis
    the snow is bloody red i think i might be dead
    Oh 911 911 help is on the way
    oh what fun it is to ride in an ambulance all day

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  226. 90's child says

    2013/01/04 at 10:36 am

    Yes, the “joker got away” version is the one I learned in the 90’s in MI. From reading other posts, it looks like we learned it from the Jokers Christmas Special from the animated series (feeling pretty manipulated/unoriginal).
    My hunch is that it started with the original series in 60s/70s. It would be interesting to know if it was started by a kid or if it was part of the TV series/promotions. I didn’t realize it was that old, but it makes more sense now why the language was so tame (laying an egg is a pretty lame insult). Looks like (from other posts) it started to lose popularity in the 80s, so they revived it in the 90s via animated series.
    Now my nephew (also in MI) is singing the broken skis version. Don’t know which version exactly, but I know it is one of the more gory variations. I plan to have him revive the Batman version complete with Joker peeing on the wall.

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  227. anonymous says

    2013/01/04 at 11:35 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!)

    This was the version I learned in the San Fernando Valley, Southern California, as a child in the early 1970s.

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  228. Matt says

    2013/01/10 at 8:19 am

    I think I first heard it from the Joker himself. It was on the Batman: The Animated Series in the late 80s. “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg; the Batmobile, lost its wheel, and the Joker got away!”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzcw-UQXE5k

    THe more common variation around me was the one that changed the last line to “on the motorway”, though.

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  229. rednut says

    2013/01/10 at 4:45 pm

    Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away,
    Wonderwoman did a fart and blew up the U.S.A… hey!

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  230. Andrew says

    2013/01/12 at 1:37 pm

    This is the version I remember growing up in the south of England, circa 1985. The M1 is the main north-south highway in the UK.

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells,
    Robin ran away,
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    On the M1 Motorway.

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  231. Anonymous says

    2013/03/15 at 1:33 pm

    Jingle bells, batman smells,
    Robin flew away,
    Lost his pants,
    In the middle of France,
    And found them in Bombay
    HEY!!!

    No one has said that one

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  232. 46oiram/mario 64 says

    2013/03/20 at 4:00 pm

    mine is:

    Jingle bells,batman smells,robin hood away!mr.billy lost his willy on the motor way,hey!

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  233. Charles H. Westgate III a.k.a. Balto says

    2013/03/26 at 9:40 pm

    If they will solved the case of the song like Jingle Bells, Batman Smells to crack the case like the detectives and the archeologists to dig the truths. I will know if it was a big answer of the mystery of the song, Jingle Bells, Batman Smells to the History of DC Comics. And the song, Jingle Bells, Batman Smells could ruin Christmas and the Holiday. From The end of Summers to the New Year Eve. For follies and such silliness.
    made all villain bands of bad guys listing to us, singing Jingle Bells, Batman Smells to sing it on the superheroes to ruining its justices.
    and then the worst of resinging of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!

    Jingle Bells, Piggy Smells,
    Kermit lay an egg.
    The Muppet Show, got a hoss,
    And Fozzie got a farts!
    Hey!!!
    Jingle Bells, Gonzo Smells,
    His chickens are fries!
    Dog City dress in bikini swimsuits,
    And Bert Raccoon drinking grog!

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  234. Anonymous says

    2013/03/31 at 11:20 am

    South West Washington Mid 1970’s

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!)

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  235. Tammy says

    2013/05/12 at 3:21 am

    Hmmm I learned it when I was young, (18 now, I know still a baby haha) but I recall Joker singing it in “Batman: The Animated Series”. A Christmas episode.

    This was the version:

    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg,
    Batmobile lost a wheel,
    And Joker got away!”

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  236. Cliff says

    2013/05/15 at 1:54 pm

    I’m originally from the LA area. I first remember hearing this parody in the mid-sixties, when the Batman television series was airing. It seemed to be a new thing back then.

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  237. Charles H. Westgate III a.k.a. Balto says

    2013/06/02 at 1:40 pm

    Here are the next part of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells is an parts with the characters of all cartoons from around the world. as I Was saying that the peoples of American popular cultures are been using bad words and even censorships for its American culture of its popularity in America. As I don’t want the Native Americans to be a good guys and the settlers and govermnets ans troops of American to be a bad guys, and I don’t want the settlers, governments, and troops of America to be a god guys and the Native Americans to be a bad guys. Because this people between Americans and Native Americans are feuding each other for homelands by violence with prejudice and racism. So I choose Canada as a best place to set an stories to take place without any sterotypes to portraited and put a plots like Hollywood cartoon makers did. So I also used Bert Racoon refused to sing a song like the foul humrous Wes gangs sing,
    Jingle Bells, Boris Smells,
    Kermit lay an eggs,
    Bert Raccoon in Las Vegas,
    gambling with Lisa, hey!
    Jingle Bells, Ariel Smells,
    she married Don Karnage,
    Oh what it is to drinks
    at Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits, hey!
    Jingle Bells, Louis Smells,
    Teddy Bear lay and eggs,
    Woody and Buzz got a hoots,
    In Pooh Bear’s old outhouse, hey!

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  238. Charles H. Westgate III a.k.a. Balto says

    2013/06/03 at 2:12 pm

    http://www.playgroundjungle.com/2009/12/jingle-bells-batman-smells.html

    I know what the Song, Jingle Bells Batman Smells came from, the 1940s!

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  239. Charles H. Westgate III a.k.a. Balto says

    2013/06/05 at 11:18 pm

    Joker got ran over by the reindeers,
    Walking over from Gotham City prison.
    You could say there no such things as Santa,
    and as for Batman and Robin, they believe!

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  240. Charles H. Westgate III a.k.a. Balto says

    2013/06/05 at 11:25 pm

    http://christmas.lovetoknow.com/Christmas_Song_Parodies

    It’s just I will represented a facts, I already solved what the parody song had come from.

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  241. Irene says

    2013/06/28 at 1:36 am

    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
    Jingle all the way!
    Oh what fun it is to ride a one horse open slay! ( Hey)

    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
    Jingle all the way!
    Oh what fun it is to ride, but Santa farts today!!

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  242. Charles H. Westgate III a.k.a. Balto says

    2013/08/02 at 12:18 am

    Jingle Bells, Robin farts,
    Kermit laid an eggs,
    Rosie O’Gravy lost her bosoms
    Swimming in Las Vegas, hey!

    Jingle Bells, Fievel shock,
    Toponi was a giant!
    In San Diego, California
    Swimming in San Diego Bay, hey!

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  243. Mary says

    2013/08/19 at 9:32 pm

    Philadelphia suburbs, early 1970’s.
    Besides the Batman version, we sang:
    Jingle bells, Santa smells
    Rudolph laid an egg
    Oh what fun it is to ride
    In a beat-up Chevrolet

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  244. Charles H. Westgate III a.k.a Balto says

    2013/08/27 at 2:17 pm

    Dashing through the Batmoblie,
    On the one horse open sled,
    On the field we go,
    Joker gaot away, HA, HA, HA!
    I’m the one with the Batmoblie,
    And making spirits bright,
    What fun it is to ride and sing,
    And Joker got away,
    Oh, Jingle Bells, Batman Smells,
    Robin lay an egg,
    The batmoblie lost all wheels
    and Joker got away,
    Hey!! Jingle Bells, Batman Smells,
    Robin lay an egg,
    The Batmoblie, lost it wheels
    And Joket took ballet, Hey!
    This Batman pardoy Jingle Bells song is from my next door neighbor,
    Mitcheal. I remeber when me and my mother sang Jingle Bells,
    And then my sister Anna Westgate sang, Jingle Bells, Batman Smells.
    I never heard it, and I thinks it’s sounded silly for me and my mother.

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  245. Charles H. Westgate III a.k.a. Balto says

    2013/09/11 at 10:15 pm

    Jingle Bells, Homer Smells,
    Peter laid his eggs,
    Rosie O’Gravy in bikini,
    and married Fievel Mouse, Hey!

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  246. Brett says

    2013/09/29 at 12:41 am

    Jingle bells
    Roscoe smells
    Enis laid an egg
    Old boss hog ate a frog
    And the duke boys got away.

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  247. Johnny Kills says

    2013/10/14 at 5:30 am

    There’s a fun version where the Joker is singing in the roof,

    it says:

    Jingle bell, Batman’s Bell
    Robin through the way,
    He lost its …(I do not understand)
    (other phrase that I do not understand)
    and did not what they say (hey!)
    joker: Hey!
    Batman: Hello

    it’s on youtube, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioiT5UC-59c

    if someone can write it I will apreciate.

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  248. Charles H. Westgate III a.k.a Balto says

    2013/10/18 at 12:59 am

    Jingle Bells, Raccoons Smells,
    Nelvana laid an eggs,
    Turbo Dogs went for the swims,
    Wearing seashell swim suits, hey!!!
    Jingle Bells, Brownies Smells,
    Doesn’t take a baths.
    Running around in Brownies Forest.
    Cooking rotten eggs, Hey!
    http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/brownies/index.html

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  249. MM says

    2013/10/23 at 12:52 am

    The 1st version,
    (Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!)) and it was in the late ’60s in New York City. Good luck with the research!

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  250. dave says

    2013/10/29 at 4:18 am

    here we sing jingle bells batman smells robin flew away uncle billy lost his willy on the motorway HAY.

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  251. Dave says

    2013/11/03 at 11:50 am

    Baltimore, MD – Early 1970’s

    The first version you list.

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!)

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  252. someone unknown says

    2013/11/03 at 9:57 pm

    heres one my nefiew told me:
    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid a egg
    The batmobile lost a wheel
    And spongebob saved the day!
    HEY!!

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  253. Charles H. Westgate III says

    2013/11/12 at 6:59 pm

    Jingle Bells, Snoopy spied,
    Rankin and Bass’s Red Baron,
    World War I meets Notrh America,
    All aboard to Starlight Express, Hey!
    Jingle Bells, Snoopy spied,
    Rankin and Bass’s Red Baron,
    World War I meets Sgt. Pepper and
    his Lonely Hearts Club Band, Hey!
    From Russia!

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  254. Charles H. Westgate III says

    2013/11/13 at 11:26 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells,
    He-Man got his gout!
    Skeletor yelled is,
    You Big Whale, He-Man!
    And everyone laugh at
    Mister Big He-Man.
    He didn’t put out a
    Oscar flower!

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  255. Charles H. Westgate III says

    2013/11/13 at 11:36 pm

    Skeletor sang with the Gremlins from Gremilns (1984) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990),
    He-Man is an big fat old whale,
    He-Man is an big fat old whale,
    He-Man is an big fat old whale,
    And Orko, a souter puss!
    Good timing to tear an whole world, a trash,
    And She-Ra is a fat bug,
    And we will rule the planets!

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  256. Charles H. Westgate III says

    2013/11/13 at 11:46 pm

    Frosty the Yeti,
    He’s a mystery beast, today,
    With a smoking pipe and a golden teeth,
    and he’s eyes we’re really cute,
    Frosty the Yeti,
    Is a detective story, they say,
    He went to the famous Monsters, Inc.
    To buy a boxes of cigars!

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  257. lola says

    2013/11/14 at 1:18 pm

    jingle bells batman smells robbing flew away uncle billy lost his willy on the moaterway

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  258. Mark says

    2013/11/15 at 11:26 pm

    I’m 47, and I think my dad told me he remembers a version of the basic “Jingle Bells, Batman smells” from when he was a kid in the 40’s. Seriously.

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  259. hhj says

    2013/11/20 at 5:22 pm

    jingle bells bartman smells pieman ran away bartbored lost a wheel and snake got away doh

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  260. betty says

    2013/11/23 at 1:27 am

    this is a 70’s episode of Batman where who else but the joker sings this song http://youtu.be/XlPvcsnz3BA

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  261. unknown says

    2013/11/24 at 12:49 pm

    This is the one I know.

    Jingle bells, Jingle bells
    Robin went to hell
    thought he was the superman and tried to fly but fell
    Hey!
    x2
    Crashing through the snow,
    on a pair of broken ski’s
    down the ravine we go
    falling to our knees,
    I think the snow is red,
    I think I’m nearly dead,
    so someone call the ambulance before I freeze to death,
    Hey!

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  262. rachel says

    2013/11/25 at 12:33 pm

    dashing in the snow
    in a pair of roller scates over the needle i go
    ahahah ow have i pasted out yyyyes

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  263. Adam Colligan says

    2013/11/26 at 4:28 pm

    I grew up in suburbia near Augusta, GA and would have been doing schoolyard/schoolbus rhymes between about 1991 and 1996. The first version in your original post is the one I know, word for word.

    I was also wondering if you had seen The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren?

    Most of that book’s material was gathered from research in British rather than American schools. I studied and worked in the UK for five years after high school, and I found it really fascinating (by reading that book and talking to friends) to see which children’s rhymes and games had managed to leap from one side of the Atlantic to the other (and perhaps back) and which had not.

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  264. flowers says

    2013/11/27 at 7:05 am

    I made this one up
    Jingle bells! jingle bells!
    Santas on vacation
    He took a trip on a plane almost
    Across the nashion

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  265. bah humbug says

    2013/11/27 at 1:48 pm

    from Australia here :) the version i heard in the school yard around 1980 was this:
    Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
    Robin’s flown away,
    Wonder Woman lost her bossom
    flying TAA (hey)

    i dont know any more of it

    ps. TAA (Trans Australian Airlines) was an airline here up till 1992 when it was bought by Qantas

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    • Krista says

      2013/12/21 at 9:12 pm

      I was going to write this one! I’m from Melbourne, Australia. Seems that must be our version – although my daughter says “…lost her bra” and may have changed the TAA part. Can’t remember now.

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    • Ben says

      2015/03/09 at 7:31 am

      This was the only version that I had ever heard until I read this article. My whole school used to sing this in Canberra, Australia (mid 70’s).

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  266. Asterion says

    2013/11/29 at 4:31 am

    I grew up in the North East of England in the 1970s, and we sang:
    “Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin flew away.
    Spider-Man got squashed like ham
    On the M1 motorway – hey!”

    If there were any verse lyrics, I ca no longer remember them!

    A.

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  267. Heather says

    2013/12/01 at 5:17 pm

    I remember in london in the 70s-80s singing:

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin blew away (so he farted, basically)
    Wonder Woman
    Lost her bosom
    On the M1 motorway

    (or Father Christmas lost his whiskers on the M1 motorway)

    There was also a version where someone lost her knickers on the M1 motorway but I can’t remember who it was…

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  268. Pat says

    2013/12/02 at 5:04 am

    I have only heard the first version. My best recollection is late 60’s – maybe 1969. I heard it from a friend in Brockton Massachusetts. We made up other versions.

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  269. Trevor Kokotylo says

    2013/12/02 at 5:20 am

    Edmonton Alberta in the 1970s it was:

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    And Commissioner ate some hay

    (Commissioner Gordon of course)

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  270. Steve Wiggins says

    2013/12/03 at 12:45 am

    I was born in 63 in the Detroit area. Heard it first in about 1968 while throwin snowballs with the “big kids” (8-10 years old)…

    and it was the first version you listed…

    Batman smells. Robin laid an egg….blahblah, joker got away.

    LOLOLOL… funny how that stuff sticks in your head. I can remember how hard it was snowing that night, and how muffled the cars sounded from all the snow falling!!!

    My older brother (10 at the time), normally quite responsible, threw a snowball at a passing car and nailed it hard. The guy stopped, jumped out of his gray 68 Olds (I remember the car!)… and chased, and CAUGHT us!

    Gave us a stern talkin to!!! We were just thrilled he didn’t bang on our parents door and tell on us!!! (Which of COURSE woulda been BAD!)

    HAHAHAHA!!!! Great memories!

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  271. Michelle says

    2013/12/04 at 9:06 am

    I grew up is Southern Louisiana, just north of Lake Pontchartrain. I’m 40 now and have to say I remember first hearing something along these lines…
    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!)
    this was around ’78…of course now my youngest who is 8 sings a variation which now includes Spongebob…go figure. Hope your research provides some laughter along the way.

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  272. Periwinkle says

    2013/12/04 at 9:04 pm

    I thought its
    Dashing through the snow
    On a pair of broken skiis
    Over the hills we go
    Crashing into trees

    Now the snow is red
    I think I’m almost dead
    I woke up in the hospital with stitches in my head

    911 911 someone call the cops
    Take me to the hospital
    And feed me lollipops
    911 911 Santa clause is dead
    JL ( or something like that) Joe the Eskimo shot him in the head.

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  273. Lee C. says

    2013/12/05 at 2:46 pm

    Salt Lake City, Utah, late 1970s: We always sang a hybrid of the Batman and Sesame Street versions: Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. Mr. Hooper laid a pooper right on Big Bird’s leg. Yeah, we were crude little boys.

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    • Carina says

      2015/11/20 at 9:33 am

      I was also in SLC and had just a slight variation from this – Mr. Hooper let a pooper, all on Christmas Day—-hey!

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    • Allan says

      2016/11/30 at 3:05 pm

      Also in Salt Lake City. My wife learned another Sesame Street hybrid, although similar in the early 1990’s…
      Jingle Bells, Batman smells.
      Robin laid an egg.
      Mr. Hooper laid a pooper
      Right on Santa’s sleigh!

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      • Justin says

        2017/12/29 at 7:52 pm

        Salt Lake City, early to mid 80s. Definitely the Hooper Pooper Santa’s Sleigh lyrics…

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    • DK says

      2018/11/01 at 12:09 am

      In Salt Lake City in the 1950s it went:
      Jingle bells, shotgun shells,
      Hammers, nuts and screws,
      Oh what fun it is to ride
      In Grampa’s overshoes!

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  274. Jason says

    2013/12/07 at 12:26 am

    Jingle bells, jingle bells. Santa Claus is dead . Gi Joes the Eskimo shot him in the head. Barbie doll Barbie doll tried to save her life, but Gi Joe the Eskimo stabbed her with a knife…

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  275. David says

    2013/12/07 at 5:45 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veju4PxhuGc

    Does anyone have video from the original Batman TV series where the Joker sings this or similar?

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  276. David says

    2013/12/07 at 5:48 am

    Jingle Bells
    Shot gun shells
    Santa Clause is dead.
    Someone stole my BB gun
    and shot him in the head.

    Houston, Texas in the early 1970s.

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  277. Susan Snetsinger says

    2013/12/09 at 2:35 pm

    I learned version 1 listed above in Webster Groves, MO (suburb of St. Louis) in about 1972/1973.

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  278. Steve Scott says

    2013/12/11 at 9:56 pm

    First version:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!)

    San Francisco Bay Area, early-mid 70’s

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  279. Gary says

    2013/12/12 at 12:01 pm

    I heard the “Santa Claus is dead” version in elementary school in the 1960s in the Dallas, Texas area. It had the feel of an old folk song even then.

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  280. william says

    2013/12/14 at 12:48 am

    I heard this one when I was about about 10 in 1967 in Dunedin, New Zealand.
    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin laid an eggs
    . . . and then I’m not sure . . .
    Father Christmas lost his whiskers?
    and something about Superman and his underwear??

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  281. Tish says

    2013/12/14 at 6:39 am

    Theses are the two versions I remember:

    Jingle bell Robin Hood
    Riding through the glen
    Done a fart
    Killed a rat and paralysed a hen

    Jingle bell Starsky smell
    Hutch has ran away
    Kojak’s lost his lollipop
    And bought a milkyway

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  282. Anonymous says

    2013/12/14 at 6:58 am

    Early 80’s in Columbus, Ohio; “joker got away” variation
    Our children insist on joker joined ballet though, still in Columbus.

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  283. Girl says

    2013/12/14 at 3:41 pm

    My childhood versions are:

    Jingle bells, batman smells
    Robin fly away
    Uncle billy lost his willy on the motorway, hey!

    And:

    Jingle bells, batman smells
    Robin fly away
    Aunty ruby lost her booby on the motorway, hey!

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  284. Anonymous says

    2013/12/14 at 11:42 pm

    Joker got away, mid-70’s in San Francisco Bay Area

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  285. johnathen says

    2013/12/15 at 5:00 am

    Scary Eyes,Batman scares
    santa ran away
    oh what fun it is to ride
    a broken sleigh today
    Dashing through the snow in a
    one horse open sleigh
    HEY !

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  286. james p says

    2013/12/15 at 4:06 pm

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  287. Aaron says

    2013/12/16 at 4:24 pm

    First version; late 70s/early 80s; Peterborough, Ontario.

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  288. Sara says

    2013/12/16 at 5:20 pm

    Cambridge, England. 1972. Taught to me by my sister who learned it in 1967.

    Jingle bells, batman smells
    Robin flew away.
    Father Christmas lost his knickers
    On the motorway.

    Or

    Santa Claus lost his draws (British colloquialism for underpants)
    On the motorway.

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  289. Carwile LeRoy says

    2013/12/18 at 12:59 am

    Tenafly NJ 1971,72
    I was 7,8 yo

    Jingle Bells Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Bat mobile list a wheel
    Commissioner ran away

    That last line still puts me in stitches

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  290. Sarah says

    2013/12/18 at 6:57 am

    Jingle bells,
    Batman smells
    Robin ran away
    Wonder Woman lost her bosom
    Flying TAA

    Australian version mid 70s.

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  291. Taskmaster says

    2013/12/20 at 2:15 am

    I know that the batman Version was sung in a Christmas Episode of the Batman Animated Series of the mid 90’s. So I assume most Kids of that era (now in their 20s) learned it from there. At least that’s the most common case in Europe.

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  292. John says

    2013/12/21 at 5:17 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost its wheel, Commissioner ran away

    Orange County CA circa 1970

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  293. Jane says

    2013/12/22 at 6:57 pm

    Jingle bells jingle bells santa is saad
    All because robiin calling him a pri**
    HEY

    Jingle bells jingle bels santa is happy
    All because robin had lost his wiilly

    I know a bit inappropriate but that’s what I just recently heard from kids

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  294. ashley says

    2013/12/22 at 8:51 pm

    Dashing through the snow on a pair of broken skis gliding up a hill santa lost his keys snowmans turning red santa feeling dead all he wants for Christmas is a hospital bed OH Santa Claus Santa Clau Santa Claus is dead Rudolph took a 44 and shot him in the head oh Barbie doll Barbie doll tried to save his life GI JOE from Mexico stabbed her with a knife

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  295. :-) says

    2013/12/24 at 7:11 am

    Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile *popped* a wheel, and blew up IGA.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGA_%28supermarkets%29 – IGA is a chain of supermarkets.
    Edmonton, Canada, early 1990s.

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  296. Tzvi says

    2013/12/25 at 2:04 am

    This is what I heard way back in the ’60’s as a kid. (I’m Jewish, & I have the impression that at some point some pious Christians substituted Batman instead of Santa…)
    Jingle bells Santa smells 40 miles away

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  297. Dipsy Doodle says

    2013/12/25 at 11:09 am

    Here’s an Anti-Nazi version that I’m sure you’ll like.

    Jingle Bells! Hitler smells!
    Goering is a gay!
    Eva Braun is a man
    and all of them have AIDS!
    Hey!
    Jingle Bells! Himmler smells!
    Goebbels is a gay!
    Lili Marlene is a man
    and all of them have AIDS!
    Hey!

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  298. Cognight says

    2013/12/26 at 2:09 am

    In the long shot someone sees this;

    The song originates from an of the 1992 “Batman: The Animated Series” titled “Christmas with the Joker”. It’s episode 2 on DVD, but was actually the 38th episode to air.

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  299. Tim says

    2013/12/26 at 11:23 am

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!)
    Orange County Ca, 1974
    Houston Texas, 1975

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  300. robsolo says

    2013/12/27 at 7:05 pm

    Dunno if it is here already, but in Ottawa, Canada we had a two verse….

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
    Santa Claus is dead
    Rudolph took a 44 and shot him in the head

    Barbie Doll Barbie Doll
    Tried to save his life
    But GI Joe tippy toed
    and stabbed her with his knife.

    kind of morbid if you think about it.

    Circa 1985/86

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  301. Mark E Clason says

    2013/12/30 at 12:45 pm

    I know your #1 version from Panama Elementary School, Panama CA, 1966-1972-ish.

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  302. Matthew says

    2014/01/02 at 11:39 am

    First heard it in 1971, Davis CA. In kindergarden. Always wondered who wrote it. Truly fun to think that some kid made it up and it spread by word of mouth.

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  303. Jessica says

    2014/01/02 at 6:22 pm

    I grew up with this one:

    “Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    And Joker played ballet”

    Toronto, ON ca. 1998-2000

    But I also just found this. It may help you to answer your question:

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  304. jason says

    2014/01/03 at 12:11 am

    the batman one,,, I first heard this in the 4th grade in 1982, I remember thinking it was kool and new and probably was old , lol like me !!!!

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  305. google man says

    2014/01/06 at 7:15 am

    Jax fl 2005
    Jingle bells, Batman smell
    Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    And robin peed on a tree in 1963! Hey!

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  306. Maria says

    2014/01/07 at 12:44 pm

    The 1st version,
    (Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!))
    late 70s East Coast – Arkansas, Kansas, then VA
    This year my kids came home from friends in Oklahoma singing:
    Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid a gun,
    shot a tree, made it pee, in 1983
    Batman in the kitchen
    Robin in the hall
    Jokers in the bathroom
    peeing on the wall!
    Catgirl in the litterbox
    oh what fun it is to die in a onehorse open sleigh! (my son made up the very last line).

    I like the first version better. Love that you are researching this.

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  307. Child of the Early 60's says

    2014/01/12 at 1:18 am

    Upstate New York and I learnt the first version:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!)

    Other songs such as to Sinatra’s ‘My Way’:

    Strangers in the night, exchanging d***oes
    This one is too tight, I’ll take another
    This is one is just right, I’ll take a dozen mooooorrrre.

    Children’s culture is, unfortunately, not written down and often searching online will get no hits on a topic. It is, btw, a language unique to children.

    This is, truthfully, language.

    Great blog post.

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  308. EmBee says

    2014/01/28 at 7:47 pm

    I was born in 1949. It was around before the cartoon version with the Joker singing it. That’s why Batman says. “I hate that song.” It had been making the rounds before the TV show with Adam West.

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  309. Daniel says

    2014/02/10 at 8:37 am

    The version I grew up with in the UK is “jingle bells batman smells robin FLEW away”, the rest is the same as your first version. I’ve known this version for as long as I can remember and I was born in 1980.

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  310. Sheryl Diane says

    2014/02/12 at 1:55 pm

    Hey fun to find this — I think this verse may have originated from the 1966 TV action series Batman starring Adam West. I wonder if it might have started from a character like the Joker (Cesar Romero) or the Riddler (Frank Gorshin) I know I’ve known the chorus since maybe 3/4th grade in Montana, 1969/70. That’s why I think it may have been started by a televised quip by one of the villains? I just had an argument with one of my piano students about the last line – it used to be “Joker got away … ” but now the kids say “Joker took ballet” and will argue that’s right. It travels in 1st and 2nd grade like a virus from state to state. Pretty amazing oral tradition!

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  311. Tahlia says

    2014/02/14 at 7:00 pm

    All though primary school we sang:

    Jingle bells batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Rudolf got a .22 and shot him in the head
    Oh Barbie dolls barbie dolls tried to save his life
    But GI joe from Mexico stabbed him with a knife.

    My older brother and I taught our little brother it when he was 3. He thought it was hilarious.

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  312. mic says

    2014/02/19 at 9:57 pm

    Hubs and I are currently debating this. Heard in 80s in WA

    Jingle bells, batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    Joker took ballet.

    Hubs says its
    Joker got away.

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  313. Nidhi Vijay says

    2014/03/09 at 5:47 pm

    Here’s one:
    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
    Robin Laid An Egg,
    Uncle Billy Lost His Willy On The Motorway, HEY!!

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  314. Michael Gaddass says

    2014/03/12 at 2:35 pm

    I first heard this version, UK, North East late 80’s.

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells
    Robin Flew away
    Lost his pants flying over France
    Yet he found ’em in Bombay.

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  315. Pigeon says

    2014/03/21 at 7:29 pm

    Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin’s flown away
    The Batmobile’s lost a wheel on the M5 motorway

    …Droitwich, England, 1970s. Search streetmap.co.uk for “droitwich” to understand the M5 reference ;)

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  316. Steve Doherty says

    2014/04/22 at 1:46 am

    The way I remember it, from the 70’s in Massachusetts:
    Jingle Bells, Santa smells
    Rudolph ran away.
    Blow you nose in Cherios
    and eat ’em on the way.

    I know, makes no sense, but that’s how I learned it. Plus I remember the alternate:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Oh what fun it is to ride
    in a beat-up Chevrolet!

    hmmm, that makes no sense either, but we were just kids.

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  317. michael says

    2014/05/01 at 9:38 pm

    Hears another one

    Jingle bells batman smells robin layed an egg batmobel lost a weel and the joker got away hey jingle bells joker smells harly quinn layed an egg jokermobel lost a weel and they went to jail.

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  318. Charles H. Westgate III says

    2014/06/15 at 1:30 pm

    I found this song, Jingle Bells, Batman Smells at Cowboy lyrics.com
    And there you will sing the lyric,

    http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/wilson-steven/jingle-bells-batman-smells-37149.html

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  319. Friv says

    2014/08/01 at 8:02 am

    Batman in the kitchen,
    Robin in the hall,
    Joker in the bathroom,
    Peeing all over the wall!
    hahahahha

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  320. Dylan Quinn says

    2014/08/05 at 9:49 am

    I’m from Dublin, Ireland and I first heard the top version (batman smells) in ’92 or ’93 (I’m 25 now) from my Dad. I didn’t really think about it too much until I heard an American talking about it recently. Everyone I know and grew up with in Dublin would be aware of the song. I find it fascinating that it seems to have become a worldwide phenomenon, at least among English speaking countries.

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    • Dylan Quinn says

      2014/08/05 at 9:54 am

      Also, the version I learned was:

      Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
      Robin laid an egg,
      The Batmobile lost a wheel,
      and The Joker got away (hey!)

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  321. Andy says

    2014/08/17 at 9:53 am

    The version I learned was:

    Jingle bells, batman smells
    Santa Claus is dead
    Rudolph took a .22 and
    Shot him in the head

    G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe
    Tried to save his life
    But a Barbie doll, Barbie doll
    Stabbed them with a knife

    This would be around 1980, in Sweaburg, near Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.

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  322. Michelle says

    2014/10/02 at 3:24 pm

    The version I heard was in elementary school in the late 1970’s, South San Francisco, CA: Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away (Hey!)

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  323. Anonymous says

    2014/11/02 at 12:35 am

    I grew up with this one:

    Jingle bells, batman smells,
    Robin flew away,
    Wonder Woman lost her bozam
    Flying TAA, HEY!!!!

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  324. Me says

    2014/11/17 at 8:46 pm

    jingle bells batman smells robin layed a egg bad mobile lost a wheel and joker got away…hey! Badmans in the kitchen, robins in the hall, jokes in the washroom… Peeing on the wall! The snow is turning read, I ink I’m going to be dead… WAKE Up in the morning with stiches on my head!

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  325. David C. says

    2014/11/19 at 8:39 am

    My version goes like this,

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (hey!)
    Bane is bad, the Penguin’s worse
    Mr. Freeze made snow
    Gotham City on Christmas
    is not a nice place to go! (ho ho ho!)

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  326. Kate says

    2014/11/26 at 8:14 am

    s, Auckland, New Zealand. “Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin ran away. Father Christmas lost his whiskers on the motorway, hey”. Motorway our term for freeway.

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  327. Jacinta says

    2014/11/29 at 12:05 am

    In Australia growing up it was…..
    Jingle bells batman smells
    Robin ran away
    Wonder woman lost her bosoms
    flying TAA (An Australian air line that now doesn’t exist)

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  328. Kayla says

    2014/11/30 at 1:13 pm

    I’m in 7th grade and this is how me and me friends always sing it:

    Dashing through the snow, on a one broken ski
    Over the hills we go,
    Crashing into trees
    Bum, bum

    The snow is turning red,
    I think I may be dead,
    I wake up in the hospital with stitches in my head (Hey!)

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin layed an egg
    The batmobile lost a wheel, and the Joker got away (Hey!)

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  329. Anon Y. Mouse says

    2014/12/01 at 5:48 am

    The version I grew up with (1980s in the UK) was

    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin ran away.
    Santa lost his underpants,
    On the M6 Motorway (Hey!)

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  330. anony mouse says

    2014/12/07 at 6:37 am

    Myn was jingle bells batman smells robin flew away

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  331. Sharon says

    2014/12/15 at 9:38 pm

    Couldn’t get the song: Jingle bells, Batman smells… out if my head this morning. Learned it as an elementary-school aged child in Minneapolis in the 60’s.

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  332. eldergod0515 says

    2014/12/16 at 8:49 pm

    Almost 9 years but best I can tell no analysis or conclusions. I’ve seen the Animated Series and Simpsons but neither are the origin. Looks like it goes back to the 1960’s at least – but nobody has a better conclusion than that?

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  333. dbb says

    2014/12/17 at 11:18 pm

    I first heard the Batman smells version in 1973 when I was in the 1st grade/Orlando Fl. The nuns at our school hated it and they often would spank us if they heard us singing it. I can remember my older brother knowing it before me, so that would put him at ’71 or ’72 when he picked it up.

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  334. Kate says

    2014/12/18 at 6:38 pm

    I always heard:
    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin ran away
    The Batmobile lost its wheel and landed in Bombay

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  335. Madeline Tucker says

    2014/12/19 at 1:00 pm

    I’m 53 and the only version I’ve heard is:
    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    and the Joker got away (Hey!)
    And that was back in the ’60s.

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  336. The Viper says

    2014/12/20 at 9:07 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells, robbin ran away
    He lost his pants down in france
    And found them in bombay HEY!

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  337. SummerStorms says

    2014/12/21 at 1:08 am

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin flew away
    Wonder Woman lost her curls flying TAA
    hey!

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  338. Ria Kenney says

    2014/12/21 at 1:16 pm

    Here’s the rude version

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin flew away
    Uncle Billy
    Lost his willy
    On the motorway
    (Hey!)

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  339. Anonymous says

    2014/12/21 at 4:03 pm

    Wow! I’m amazed at all the different variations that ppl have learned thru the years!
    The only one I’m familiar with is the first Batman Smells version. I heard it in early 70s in North Dakota.

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  340. Nick says

    2014/12/22 at 9:40 am

    In England in the 70s we used to sing:

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin flew away
    Kojack lost his lolly pop
    And bought a Milky Way

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  341. Alssya says

    2014/12/23 at 4:12 am

    I have heard:
    Jingle bells Bat man smells
    Robin layed an egg
    Wonder woman lost her bosoms flying T.L.A

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  342. Bev says

    2014/12/24 at 5:02 am

    Salt Lake City, Utah mid-1960s:
    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The batmobile lost a wheel
    And the motor ran away!

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  343. None of your business! says

    2014/12/26 at 4:55 pm

    Once in first grade I heard my teacher sing Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. Bat mobile lost a wheel, and Bat Girl saved the day. The ones I usually hear end with “And joker got away” but my favorite would have to be “and Joker did ballet”.

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  344. Yvonne says

    2014/12/27 at 6:43 pm

    Jingle bells shotgun shell
    Granny got her gun
    Shot me in my underwear
    Boy did I run

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  345. Sheri says

    2014/12/28 at 1:46 am

    The first iteration batman smells… robin laid an egg, joker got away…

    I grew up east of Saginaw, Michigan. From 1978-1986.

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  346. Anonymous says

    2014/12/29 at 8:01 pm

    Learned either from my younger brother or younger cousin, in Alabama in the early 60’s:

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    And Commissioner broke his leg

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  347. Rodger Dodger says

    2014/12/30 at 7:47 pm

    Palo Alto, CA, ca. 1966

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    Batmobile lost a wheel and Commissioner broke his leg.

    Learned from a friends in kindergarten.

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  348. Wade says

    2014/12/31 at 2:00 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost a wheel.
    The Commissioner ran away, HEY!

    San Antonio, Texas c. 1971

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  349. anonymous says

    2015/01/03 at 7:13 pm

    Dashing through the snow
    on a pair of broken skis
    over the snow i go
    getting stung by bees
    DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!

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  350. Kat says

    2015/01/24 at 2:25 am

    This is what I learned at daycare around age 10 in Ca

    Oooh… Jingle Bells, Alfred smells, Robin laid an egg.
    The bat mobile lost a wheel, but Bat Girl saved the day.

    Batman’s in the kitchen, Mad hatter’s in the hall,
    Joker’s in the backyard peeing on the wall.
    Penguin’s on the potty, His arms too short to wipe,
    Catwoman’s in the litter box, while the Riddler smokes a pipe.

    Oooh… Jingle Bells, Alfred smells, Robin laid an egg.
    The bat mobile lost a wheel, but Bat Girl saved the day.

    I see some people saying the words don’t make sense because Robin couldn’t lay eggs, well when I was a kid to ‘lay an egg’ meant you let a stinky one rip. So I’ve always took the words to mean he farted.

    In my searches I came across this video of the Barron Knights singing some other versions of parodies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD-LAX0DxL4#t=242

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  351. JY says

    2015/02/12 at 6:31 pm

    I heard something like this : Jingle bells, You smell, like a rotten egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and threw it on your head! HEY

    Are you in the kitchen, maybe in the hall, are you in the bathroom peeing on the wall? HEY

    Zombies hate the pit, you were there too, I saw you eat a HappyMeal, and then you needed to poo. Eh?

    Jingle bells, You smell, like a rotten egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and threw it on your head! HEY

    Jingle bells, You smell, like a rotten egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and threw it on your head! HEY

    Jingle bells, You smell, like a rotten egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and threw it on your head! HEY

    Jingle bells, You smell, like a rotten egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and threw it on your head! HEY

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  352. Matt Blythe says

    2015/03/19 at 10:23 pm

    I wrote this in the mid 70’s in class 4 for Miss Hooke as part of a school poetry exercise. We were told to write a short poem and then had to deliver it to the class. The actual first ever recital of this was as follows :-

    “Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin’s run away.
    The batmobile has lost its wheels,
    Hooray, hooray, hooray.”

    I delivered this is a stony silent class of six year olds and noone applauded and after I had finished Miss Hooke thanked me and I was asked to sit down. I don’t know if Miss Hooke is alive today but I may have a dated copy of this poem in an old school book I wrote somewhere.

    Matt Blythe.
    Isle of Wight, England.

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  353. kenny hooper says

    2015/04/02 at 4:49 pm

    Jingle bells batman smells Robin flew away. kojak lost his lollipop so he bought a milky-way. Hey.

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  354. Katy says

    2015/05/15 at 3:03 pm

    911 911
    Grammas got a gun
    Shot my butt in Pizza Hut
    Back in ’91

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  355. Pat says

    2015/06/06 at 10:10 am

    1976 minneapolis minnesota. Version 1

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  356. qaz says

    2015/06/19 at 8:32 am

    Jingle bells batman smells Robin flew away down come a joker and batman ran away 1st lyric of jingle bell batman was during 1930’s

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  357. David says

    2015/06/23 at 10:33 am

    If it helps in your research at all…

    I first heard the same variation of “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” that you mention sometime around 1993-ish in Indianapolis, Indiana — about the same time that it appeared at the beginning of episode 2 (“Christmas with the Joker”) of Batman: The Animated Series. The opening line would, of course, be referenced in the 1996 film, “Jingle All the Way,” as spoken by James Belushi.

    I found this post in an attempt to learn if the rhyme predated its Batman: The Animated Series occurrence, which I am sure helped in its popularity. Best of luck in tracking this down.

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  358. julia says

    2015/07/13 at 6:44 am

    jingle bells, batman died, spiderman cried, superman flied and antman sighed. my sister is 7 forgive me…

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  359. Sarah says

    2015/07/14 at 5:10 pm

    From Australia, first heard in Queensland primary school circa 1988:

    Jingle bells, batman smells
    Robin ran away
    Wonder Woman lost her pants
    Flying USA
    Hey!

    That’s to the best of my recollection anyway! If you find the origin let me know.

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  360. Rob says

    2015/07/31 at 4:26 pm

    Rob, thank you so much for setting up this page. I was singing it for the first time to my 5 year old son while he screamed with laughter… but I could only remember “batman smells and robin laid an egg” – he will be so happy that I can sing the whole song now!

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  361. Charles H. Westgate III says

    2015/08/02 at 7:12 pm

    Batman will not going to like it! Look!!!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZDQtCAwoYM
    &

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  362. W4yw4rdmink says

    2015/11/02 at 5:59 am

    gingle bells, batman smells
    robin ran away
    old man billy lost his w****
    on the motorway (hey)

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  363. Kezea says

    2015/11/03 at 10:03 am

    Here’s one
    Jingle bells,batman smells Robin layed an egg and the batmobile lost its wheel in 1981

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  364. Ocean says

    2015/11/09 at 10:47 am

    Chorus –

    Dashing thru the snow on a one horse open sleigh
    Shouting as we go, “will you please get out of my way”!

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  365. Codeguy007 says

    2015/11/24 at 8:57 am

    The words I know are:

    Jingle Bells Batman Smells,
    Robin Laid an Egg,
    The Batmobile has one flat wheel,
    and the Joker got away, hey.

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  366. The Aussie says

    2015/11/24 at 3:22 pm

    I always sang this version as a kid

    Jingle bells jingle balls Robin Hood is dead cause rudolf got a 44 and shot him in the head.
    Barbie doll barbie doll tried to save his life but G.I Joe from Mexico stabbed her with his knife
    Oh
    Dashing through the snow without a hope in hell…… And on it goes as I have forgotten
    Cheers

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  367. Kris says

    2015/11/28 at 3:13 pm

    Same version as you grew up with (Robin laid an egg one). Time-frame was probably 1966-67 in Easten Townships of Québec, Canada. I was in elementary school in North Hatley, Québec – born in 1955 – sang it on playground and it still rattles around in my mind at Christmas time!

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  368. Jill says

    2015/11/30 at 2:20 pm

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin Flew away
    Uncle Billy lost his willy
    on the motorway
    Hey!
    England, early 2000s

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  369. Rick says

    2015/11/30 at 3:22 pm

    I learned a completely different version as a kid. I thought it was changed to be less morbid… but apparently we were just wrong all along:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg,
    Joker died, Batman cried,
    Robin flew away.

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  370. Sheya says

    2015/12/04 at 2:05 am

    Lots of shotgun references in this American one..m
    I only know the 1 I learnt in the Aussie version.
    Jingle Bells
    Batman Smells
    Robin flew away
    Wonder Woman lost her bosom flying TAA-hey!

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  371. S. Mazzara says

    2015/12/05 at 12:10 pm

    I’m a 53 year old Brooklyn native. I remember the very first version you posted. I’m pretty sure I heard it originally in the schoolyard in 1972.

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  372. Jim Smith says

    2015/12/05 at 11:39 pm

    I don’t recall hearing his as a child; first heard it from my son about 35-40 years ago. We lived in Casper WY.

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  373. Marla says

    2015/12/08 at 2:25 pm

    Very interesting post. I’ve been surprised by the young “whippersnappers” who actually think they started it. My husband and I are in our early sixties and both of us remember learning it on the playground in elementary school in the mid 1960’s in Washington state. We were blessed by it again in the eighties when our kids became school age and over the past sixteen years of grandparenthood it has been ringing in our ears nearly continually, the same version you posted, with the occasional variation of Robin flying away, but laying an egg is the optimal giggle inducing choice. It amazes me that something so cheezily retro has become so ingrained in our worldwide culture, enduring the past half a century. Anyone out there expect us to evolve to a more highly refined taste any time soon? Don’t hold your breath.

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  374. Kari says

    2015/12/09 at 2:02 am

    This came out with the Batman TV Series in 1968, although it may have taken a year or so.

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    • Ismael says

      2015/12/11 at 10:29 pm

      The one about Santa clause is just mest up😑😑😑

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  375. Ll says

    2015/12/10 at 1:35 pm

    Jingle bells batman smells robin flew away
    Uncle Billy’s lost his Wills on the m6 moterway

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  376. Ismael says

    2015/12/11 at 10:26 pm

    I liked the one Jingle bells batman smells robin laid an egg the bat mobile lost a wheel and the Jocker got away Hey!

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  377. drh says

    2015/12/12 at 8:05 pm

    batmans in the kitchen
    robins in the hall
    joker’s on the bathroom
    peeing on the wall hey

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  378. Carla says

    2015/12/12 at 10:02 pm

    Jingle bells
    Shotgun shells
    Santa Claus is dead
    Rudolph got a 44
    And shot him in the head

    That’s the version I heard growing up. I went to an elementary school in Greenup County called Danleyton. I heard it around 1977.

    I also heard Jingle Bells
    Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The batmobile lost it’s wheel
    And the joker got away

    Here’s another for fun…
    You think you’re hot snot on a silver platter.
    But you’re really just cold bugars on a paper plate!

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  379. spookywanlule says

    2015/12/13 at 10:27 pm

    Jingle bells, Batman smells, robin laid an egg, batmobile lost its wheel, and joker blew up usa.

    Jingle bells jingle bells, Santa clause is dead. Rudolf got a 44 and shot him in the head.

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  380. scout says

    2015/12/14 at 9:30 am

    jingle bells batman smells robin laid an egg,
    oh what fun it is to sit on wonder woman’s head!

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  381. Emily says

    2015/12/15 at 5:10 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, robin flew away! He lost his pants in the middle of France and didn’t know what to say.. HEY

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  382. Aaron Morley says

    2015/12/18 at 2:17 pm

    During 1980 in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire it went:
    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin picks his nose
    Cojack lost his lollipop on the M1 motorway.

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  383. anon says

    2015/12/19 at 1:39 am

    Jingle Bells Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg…

    I don’t remember any more of the song.
    1970s in Minnesota

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  384. David says

    2015/12/19 at 10:18 am

    Our variant was…

    Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin flew away,
    Batmobile lost one wheel,
    and landed in some hay, hey

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  385. dee says

    2015/12/23 at 10:28 am

    Jingle bells,
    Batman smells,
    Robin layed an egg.
    Joker stole the batmobile,
    and got shot in the head,
    Ohhhh.

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  386. Heather says

    2015/12/23 at 2:52 pm

    Early 80’s probably.. maybe Tulsa, OK or Memphis, TN

    I Googled this topic because my now 6 yr old is signing new versions I haven’t heard.

    One that we sang, that I haven’t seen posted, is:
    Jingle Bells, shotgun shells
    Granny’s got a gun,
    Shot me in the underwear,
    And boy I had to run (?)

    My 6 yr olds versions:
    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid a gun
    He shot a tree and made a pee in 1981

    911, 911, someone has a gun
    Kicked their butt in Pizza Hut
    In 1981

    Those are awful..and abviously very new. Trying to get him to stop signing! He also sings it where Robin lays an egg and Joker does ballet (Joker never did ballet for me growing up or my husband who grew up in Washington and OR.)

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  387. stacey says

    2015/12/25 at 12:33 pm

    My husband sings it this way..He remembers it from the early 70’s
    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg,
    Bat mobile lost a wheel
    and Alfred broke his leg
    HEY!

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  388. Rob Light says

    2016/01/04 at 7:34 am

    I was trying to find an inoffensive version of the lyrics for my 5 year old son to learn – something without guns and violence, and ended up writing a couple of verses about some superheroes instead… Here he is singing them:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xDpfD9Y0dA&sns=em

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  389. Lewis Sanders says

    2016/02/07 at 10:47 pm

    1966-67? Bay Area (Peninsula), California:

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Commissioner broke his leg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    And Robin laid an egg.

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  390. Wilby Lame says

    2016/02/23 at 10:38 am

    Sorry if this is a repeat! I don’t understand why but we always sang it..
    Jingle bells Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg.
    Wonder Woman lost a boob while drinking lemonade!

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  391. Larry says

    2016/03/18 at 4:53 pm

    The earliest I heard it was Second Grade, 1972. I presume it came from kids watching re-runs of the 1966 Batman TV Series, which in those days in New York City ran on WPIX Channel 11. The lyrics I recall went:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg…..
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    and Joker took Ballet, HEY!
    (alternate: and Joker got away, Hey!)

    This was in Co-op City, Bronx, NY. PS 178, right near the then-new Harry S. Truman High School (little kids were regularly led through the underground tunnel to the High School’s basement, where two full indoor swimming pools were.) I recall in 9th grade I took Boys’ Gymnastics in that same huge basement, where they had a trampoline set up. There was always a line for the trampoline, so Mr. Youngbluth had us use the rings, horse, and parallel bars while we waited–and I recall around Christmas 1979, the boys were still singing that old ditty from 1972!

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  392. John says

    2016/04/12 at 5:19 pm

    When I was 7 (year 1995, Ottawa, Canada), I heard the first parody (i forget who sang it first):

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    and Joker took ballet

    but no one really found it funny. Then later, there was another one going around the schoolyard:

    Dashing through the snow
    on a broken pair of skis
    down the hills we go
    crashing into trees
    the snow is turning red
    i think i lost my head
    what fun it is to spend a christmas eve in bed
    oh
    jingle bells, jingle bells
    santa claus is dead
    rudolph took a .64 and shot him in the head
    BANG!
    barbie doll, barbie doll
    tried to save his life
    but g.i. joe from mexico
    just stabbed him with a knife

    we found that one much more hilarious. we were a bunch of morbid kids lol

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  393. Carly Gardner says

    2016/05/11 at 12:42 am

    CT. 1974
    Jingle bells, bullet shells,
    Commies in the grass;
    Take your merry xmas,
    And shove it up your ass.

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  394. Hobbes says

    2016/06/18 at 10:28 am

    The version we sang in upstate New York (I’m guessing maybe in the late ’50s) went like this:
    Jingle bells, Batman smells.
    Robin laid an egg.
    The Batmobile lost its wheel,
    And the Commissioner broke his leg.

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  395. ryan and jamie says

    2016/10/20 at 3:35 pm

    jingle bells batman smells robin flew away landed in a football pitch and scored a
    penalty hey

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  396. Laura says

    2016/10/23 at 1:12 pm

    Bat man smells version Maysville Ky 1978

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  397. Unkown says

    2016/10/24 at 7:39 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laided an egg, The Batmobile lost a wheel, And the Joker said go to H*ELL.

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  398. Patric Rogers says

    2016/11/03 at 1:44 am

    This is wonderful, and I love that you did a “9 years later” update. Im 46 and my first child is now 4, and I’m teaching her this son I remeber from my childhood in Toledo, OH, around 1981, or so. I learned the first version you list in the 2006 post.

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  399. batfan says

    2016/11/15 at 2:43 pm

    I learned a different version as a kid –

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin got a gun
    Shot me in the underwear
    And then I had to run

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  400. Lesley Grant says

    2016/11/22 at 7:22 pm

    Jingle Bells
    Batman Smells
    Robin flew away
    He lost his pants
    In the middle of France
    And found them in Bombay

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  401. mr baxter says

    2016/11/26 at 8:52 am

    Grew up in texas in the 60′
    last line was the commissioner is eating hay!
    My wife grew up in north dakota last line was commissioner ran away.

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  402. Conner says

    2016/12/01 at 7:22 pm

    Facing through the snow
    On a pair of broken skis
    Over the hills we go,
    Smashing into trees

    The snow is turning red I think I might be dead, I wake up in the hospital with stitches in my head
    Oh jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg
    Shoot a tree and made it pee in 1983

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  403. Dan says

    2016/12/06 at 5:40 pm

    Jingle bells Santa smells Easter’s on its way oh what fun it is to ride in a beat-up Chevrolet hey 1965

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  404. BTonyH587 says

    2016/12/10 at 8:34 pm

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    Joker stole the Batmobile
    And Penguin got away!

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  405. greg says

    2016/12/19 at 4:56 pm

    Jingle bells
    Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The Joker died
    And Batman cried
    And Robin flew away

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  406. Paul Martell-Mead says

    2016/12/22 at 1:24 am

    My school, South East London, mid to late 1970s:
    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin ran away
    Kojak lost his lollipop
    and didn’t know what to say

    My wife’s school, New Zealand, late 1970s/early 1980s
    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin ran away
    Wonder Woman lost her bosoms
    On the motorway

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  407. Teagan says

    2016/12/22 at 6:26 pm

    I stumbled across this looking for different jingle bell lyrics as I was trying to remember one. But as a contribution, when I was a kid in southern Queensland, Australia we had a schoolyard version that went:

    Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Santa clause is dead,
    Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, shot him in the head.
    Barbie Doll, Barbie Doll, tried to save his life,
    But GI Joe from Mexico, stabbed her with his knife. HEY

    We were pretty bloodthirsty kids.

    Also, theres a ‘traditional’ Aussie version, the full song is found here if you’re interested – http://alldownunder.com/australian-music-songs/jingle-bells.htm
    My kids are still singing this version in school :D

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  408. Spurwing Plover says

    2016/12/24 at 2:29 am

    JINGLEBELLS SHOTGUN SHELLS,AL GORE RAN AWAY,,TIPPLER GOT A DIVORCE SPOT,AND AL GORE HIT THE HAY

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  409. Drike says

    2016/12/24 at 3:46 am

    Here”s one from the Philippines I remember hearing as a kid (late 90s, early 2000s)

    Jingle bells, jingle bells
    Santa Clause is dead
    GI Joe from Mexico (what?)
    Shot him in the head, hey!

    Barbie dolls, barbie dolls, tried to save his life
    But GI Joe from Mexico
    Stabbed them with his knife!

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  410. Paul Martell-Mead says

    2016/12/26 at 3:47 pm

    As an addition to my post above:

    Another New Zealander recalls a slightly different version of the Wonder Woman version:

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin ran away
    Wonder Woman lost her lasso
    On the motorway

    I’d imagine this might be the original of this version as it makes more sense than losing her bosoms. Then various kids substituted bosoms, knickers etc.

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  411. Corbin Demaree says

    2017/01/12 at 7:15 pm

    In Febaurary 2017, I’ll be 52 years old and I heard these lyrics in grade school. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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  412. Anonymous says

    2017/03/14 at 1:58 am

    Here’s one I made up about Super Bowl 51:

    Jingle bells, Falcons smell
    Patriots all the way
    Snowflakes cry, want to die
    And Gaga did ballet, hey!

    And another one about current music:

    Jingle bells, Bieber smells, Katy showed some leg
    Bruno Mars just got SARS and Gaga did ballet, hey!

    Adele is in the kitchen, making Christmas pie
    Madonna’s in the living room, kissing Miley Cyrus
    Beyonce’s on the potty, clenching her own botty
    Ed Sheeran’s pissed, ’cause Kanye dissed his favorite Stones LP!

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  413. Mya says

    2017/03/24 at 8:38 pm

    Dashing through the snow
    On a pair of broken skis
    Over the fields we go
    Crashing into trees (ha ha ha)

    The snow is turning red
    I think I’m almost dead
    Will someone call an ambulance
    I think I need a bed

    Ohhhhh
    911
    911
    Someone call the cops
    Take me to the hospital
    And feed me lollipops

    Ohhhhh
    911
    911
    Someone call the cops
    Take me to the hospital
    And feed me lollipops

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  414. Parkson says

    2017/04/18 at 10:38 pm

    Can’t Smith is right. When i was younger in 62′, I’m pretty sure my uncle invented the “jingle bells, batman smells, robin layed an egg…” theme. He was a crazy batman comic. My older brother was practicing it. After that, I noticed my younger siblings generation changed it. Can’t Smith in 66′ suggested the one changed. I’m from Toronto, Ontario.

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  415. pseudonymous bitch says

    2017/05/20 at 6:02 am

    Jingle bells,
    Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg
    Superman did a fart and the Flash ran away, HEY!

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  416. Amy says

    2017/09/11 at 4:59 pm

    Jingle bells, Batman smells
    Fifty miles away
    Blows his nose in Cheerios
    And eats ’em everyday

    I was a late 80’s- nineties kid and apparently we were really gross.

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  417. Anon says

    2017/09/15 at 6:27 pm

    Dashing through the trees
    And falling on my knees
    The snow is turning red
    I think I’m almost dead
    I woke up in the hospital
    With stitches on my head
    So all I got for Christmas is
    Lame injuries in bed

    911 911
    Santa Claus is dead
    Rudolph took a .22
    And shot him in the head
    911 911
    Barbie tried to help
    But G.I. Joe from Mexico
    Whipped her with his belt

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  418. Teash says

    2017/10/22 at 10:25 pm

    Jingle bells Batman smells
    Robyn did ballet
    Lost his pants in the middle of France
    And found them in LA!

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  419. anonymous says

    2017/11/04 at 1:48 pm

    jingle bells, jingle bells
    robin laid an egg.
    batman got in his batmobile
    but joker shot him dead!

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  420. Kath Berry says

    2017/11/04 at 3:34 pm

    I learned this one around 11 yrs of age after coming to Australia in 1962. Jingle bells batman smells Robin ran away wonder woman lost her bosom flying TAA. TAA was an airline in Australia at the time.

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  421. nothing says

    2017/11/18 at 1:22 am

    jingle bells batman smells robin layed an egg wonder women hit her head and now shes nearly dead

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  422. Anonymous says

    2017/11/22 at 1:03 pm

    Dashing through the snow, on a pair of broken skis, over the hills we go, crashing into trees! The snow is turning red, I think I’m almost dead, I woke in the hospital with stitches in my head, oh!

    Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg!
    Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away, Hey!

    911,
    911,
    Ruldoph’s on the run
    He shot Santa in the head,
    With a .22 gun, oh!

    Jingle bells, jingle bells,
    Santa Claus is dead,
    Rudolph pulled a .22 and shot him in the head!

    Barbie doll, Barbie doll, tried to save his life. But GI Joe from Mexico stabbed her with a knife!

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  423. Jack says

    2017/12/02 at 8:45 pm

    From the playground, Corvallis Montana, mid 1970s

    Jingle bells shotgun shells
    Santa Claus is dead
    GI Joe, GI Joe
    shot him in the head
    Barbie Doll, Barbie Doll
    tried to save his life
    Teddie Bear, Teddie Bear
    stabbed him with a knife

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    • Jack says

      2017/12/02 at 8:54 pm

      Lyric typed wrong

      The last line should have beend

      Teddy Bear Teddy Bear
      Stabbed her with a knife

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  424. Jenna says

    2017/12/06 at 4:14 pm

    Actually, it originated when the Joker sang it in one of the old Batman DVDs.

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  425. Winona Henry says

    2017/12/08 at 6:52 pm

    I heard,
    “Jingle bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg.”
    I don’t remember what the next two lines were. I also heard,
    “Jingle Bells, Shotgun shells,
    Santa Claus is dead.
    Tried to steal my teddy bear;
    I shot him in the head.”

    Gruesome.

    I lived in west Texas, and this would have been mid- to late 1960s.

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  426. Adam says

    2017/12/08 at 10:00 pm

    Jingle bells batman smells robin flew away, father Christmas lost him whiskers flying T A A
    TAA was an australian airline back in the early 80s

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  427. K says

    2017/12/17 at 10:05 pm

    I always used to sing:
    Jingle Bells, batman smells
    Robin layed an egg
    Batmobile lost a wheel
    and Joker joined ballet, Hey!

    Dashing through the snow
    On a pair of broken skis
    Over the hills we go
    Crashing into trees
    The snow is turning red
    I think I’m almost dead
    and I woke up in the hospital
    with nails in my head, Oh!

    Jingle bells, batman smells
    Robin layed a gun
    He shot his butt in Pizzahut in 1981!

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  428. Brian of Nazareth says

    2017/12/19 at 2:57 am

    I learned this circa 1972 while living in Prince George’s (or PG as we called it) County, MD. It had the standard first verse that most people seem to have grown up with. The second verse more or less had the “Rudolph ran away” and “beat up Chevrolet” lyrics. However, one friend of mine would sing the second verse with the “shotgun shells” and “Santa’s underwear” lyrics, while another would sing the first verse with the “50 miles away” lyric. It astounds me how many variations there have been!

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  429. Philip Hume says

    2017/12/27 at 8:40 pm

    “Jingle Bells
    Batman smells
    Robin flew away
    He did a fart
    Behind a car
    And blew up the IRA!”
    One of my classmates, a Gregory Addison told me this version while we were both in primary 4 (academic session 1984/85) at Mile End Primary School, Aberdeen.

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  430. Nikita Dolo says

    2018/02/20 at 6:06 pm

    Jingle Bells , Jingle Bells,I am almost dead , I lost my head by the radio and gave it to a friend.

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  431. aaaa says

    2018/04/12 at 8:34 am

    Jingle Bells
    Batman smells
    Robin flew away
    Batman’s silly,
    And lost his willie,
    On a motorway,
    In the USA!

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  432. joesmith22 says

    2018/12/13 at 5:26 am

    Here’s a version:

    Jingle bells jingle bells
    Santa Claus is dead
    Rudolph got a 44 and shit him in the head ay
    Barbie doll barbie doll tried to save his life
    But teddy bear teddy bear stabbed him with a knife

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  433. Kathy Servello says

    2018/12/25 at 2:07 am

    Jingle bells Batman smells something got away
    Eisenhower has no power something something

    I learned this in the late 1950s where I lived on the Maryland side of Southern Avenue- the DC line. Don’t know eh6 it’s come back this year, but maybe there is more in it about the Cold War of the time and the uneasiness of nuclear annihilation.

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  434. luciana says

    2019/05/18 at 2:49 pm

    mine went somthing like this…
    Jingel bells batman smells robin lad a eeg the batmobile lost its wheel and the joker rann away hey Dashing through the snow, on a pair of broken skis, over the hills we go, crashing into trees! The snow is turning red, I think I’m almost dead, I woke in the hospital with stitches in my head, oh! batmans in his car robins in the hall jokers peeing acid all over the walls hey!

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  435. Rick says

    2019/06/01 at 3:02 pm

    Circa 1974, Darien, CT.

    Jingle Bells. Batman Smells.
    Robin laid an egg.
    Batmobile lost its wheel.
    Commissioner broke his leg.

    Jingle Bells. Batman Smells.
    Robin laid an egg.
    Batmobile lost its wheel
    And The Joker got away!

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  436. ana says

    2019/08/29 at 11:26 am

    jingle bells
    batman smells
    santa claus is dead
    rudolph took a 22
    and shot him in the head

    barbie doll barbie doll
    tried to save his life
    but gi joe from mexico
    stabbed her with his knife

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  437. RaMiya J says

    2019/10/26 at 6:40 pm

    i like Jingle bells, shotgun shells,
    Santa Claus is dead,
    Rudolf got a .22
    and shot him in the head.

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  438. Luci_lock says

    2019/12/07 at 1:19 am

    Mines is:

    Jingle bells batman smells
    Robin flew away
    Landed in a football pitch and scored a penalty

    Or

    Jingle bells batman smell
    Robin flew away
    The bat mobile lost its wheel
    And the Joker got away

    ( I’ve never heard of the other ones)

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  439. BatmanSmells says

    2019/12/12 at 9:40 pm

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells
    Robin laid an egg
    The Batmobile lost a wheel
    And the Joker got away

    This is a classic of course, another one I heard as a kid…

    Jingle Bells, shotgun shells
    Granny had a gun
    Shot Saint Nick in his dick
    In 1981

    1994/1995 Valdosta, Georgia

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    • BatmanSmells says

      2019/12/13 at 9:17 pm

      It’s funny that we find ourselves thinking of these types of things later on in life. I’m over 30 now and found this site by googling “Jingle Bells, Batman smells” because I remember singing it as a kid

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  440. depolagi says

    2019/12/15 at 3:12 am

    What’s up all, here every one is sharing such familiarity, thus it’s nice to
    read this blog, and I used to visit this blog everyday.

    Reply
  441. Lar says

    2019/12/15 at 11:11 am

    My older brother sings:

    Jingle Bells, Shotgun Shells
    Bullets All The Way
    Oh What Fun It Is To Ride
    In Detroit On Christmas Day!

    He has forgotten the next verse.
    Probably circa 1950.

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  442. Lar says

    2019/12/15 at 2:36 pm

    To the tune of Jingle Bells:

    Washington – D-C-Trump
    To Putin’s Great Delight!
    Such A Relief It Is
    That Trump’s Impeached Tonight!!

    Please Tell Moscow Mitch
    To Do The Trial Right!
    Guard the Constitution,
    Remove That Bum Tonight!!

    Oh, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
    Jingle All The Way!
    Save The Constitution,
    Do It Right Away
    Hey!

    Please Tell Moscow Mitch
    To Do The Trial Right!
    Guard That Constitution,
    Remove That Bum Tonight!!!

    — December 15, 2019 — by me —

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  443. Faizan says

    2020/01/02 at 5:28 am

    Jingle Bells,
    Batman Smells,
    Robin laid an egg

    He did a fart
    Behind a kart
    And blew up USA!

    I remember hearing this on the playground; perhaps I was around 12 at the time?
    So this was around 2000. Nottingham, UK (or Leeds)

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    • Faizan says

      2020/01/03 at 10:30 am

      Whoops – “Robin laid an egg” was meant to be “Robin flew away” — of course, so that it rhymes with USA! I must have gotten my wires crossed somehow.

      Reply
  444. kattie says

    2020/11/25 at 7:08 pm

    Dashing through the snow on a pair of broken skis, falling off a cliff, crashing through the trees. The baker gonna die I think i’m gonna cry…. that all i know another version is;
    Dashing through the snow on a pair of broken skis, falling off a cliff, crashing through the trees. The snow is turning red i think i’m almost dead i woke up in the hospital i think..
    I hope this helps

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  445. Your mum says

    2020/12/17 at 8:38 pm

    Jingle bells,
    batman smells,
    robin layed an egg.
    they thought he was a
    chicken so they
    shot him in the head, hey!

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  446. Matt says

    2022/09/05 at 12:23 pm

    The one I grew up with that my older brothers and sisters learned in the early 70’s and taught me combined the Batman one with the “shotgun shells” one.

    Jingle Bells, Batman smells,
    Robin laid an egg,
    Oh, what fun it is to ride,
    In a beat up Chevrolet.

    Sometimes we had this opening verse before the “chorus”

    Dashing through the snow,
    On a pair of broken skis,
    O’er the hills we go,
    Crashing into trees!
    The snow is turning red,
    I think I might be dead.
    I woke up in a hospital
    With stiches in my head!

    After the “chorus” we had

    Batman’s in the kitchen,
    Robin’s in the hall,
    Joker’s in the bathroom,
    Peeing on the wall
    Penguin’s on the potty,
    His arms too short to wipe.
    Catwoman’s in the litter box,
    While Riddler smokes a pipe.

    (Alternately “Penguni’s in the freezer, Alfred’s in the study, Catwoman’s in the litterbox, I think that’s everybody”). In the 90’s I heard from my nephews and nieces the “Batmobile lost a wheel” version. So what I did to entertain the little ones is do the first verse, the chorus I grew up with, the second verse, and then the second chorus I do the “Batmobile lost a wheel” version.

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